There are at least two bands named MARIPOSA. One is from ITALY and has been active since 1999;
*Myspace* *Official site* One is from BRAZIL and has been active since 2000.
*Myspace* *Official site* MARIPOSA (ITALY) - I Mariposa sono stati definiti un'anomalia della scena musicale italiana.
Dal novembre '99, momento di inizio della loro attività dal vivo, hanno cominciato a cercare un nome per ciò che fanno attraverso la forma canzone.
"Helloooo!!!
I´m Arjuna, one of the Parvati Records dj label. I grew up between Italy and India, and I made all my first dj experiences in Goa. I´v been playing mainly there, but then also in many other countries like Italy, Switzerland, Norway, Spain, Makedonia, Nepal, Japan.
After years of djing I felt like I needed to create something, to take out from my brain a lot of ideas, so i did an electronic music production course (S.A.E. in Milano, Italy) and started to travel in the production world, discovering all thoose amazing programs to create sounds.
Four italian boys inspired by somes American thrash metal bands (Metallica, Slayer, Sodom, Megadeth), a little better by the groove metal (Chimaira, Lamb of God, Pantera) and extreme metal music (Cannibal Corpse, Dying Fetus, Emperor) decided to create a group that has as its aim to create original music, fun and technical at the same time. The lineup for the first time included Simone Tempesta on drums, Fabrizio Losapio on vocals, Roberto Castorrini on guitar and vocals and Alessandro Trotto on guitars.
There are at least three bands by the name of Vexed.
1. Vexed is a Seattle band formed in '84 from the ashes of Death of Marat, and The Drills, the founding members were Milton Garrison (guitar) and Alfred Butler (bass). The band made its debut in '85 with the song "Six Foot Hole" on the Pyrrhic Victory: A Goal Attained At Too Great a Cost cassette along with Soundgarden, Skin Yard, 10 Minute Warning, Feedback, Mental Mannequin, The Fags, Colour Twigs, The Probes and The Horrible Truth.
MMM is the collaboration of Fiedel and Errorsmith. Their style is disco, techno and house influenced club music in the broadest sense. Since 1996 they release on their own label. The track 'Donna' from their second 12“ single became a real techno classic. This timeless disco-techno hybrid is still played out today, appeared on countless mix-cds made by DJ Hell to Boys Noize and animates myspace friends to ecstatic comments to this day. So it's no wonder that MMM has to meet from time to time to stamp the repressed records (stamp=artwork).
Secret Sphere are a power metal band from Alessandria, Italy. They are often compared to countrymen Rhapsody in their use of symphonic keyboards, ballads, and general feeling. However, the band's first CD, Mistress Of The Shadowlight, has a much rawer sound compared to Rhapsody. The band was formed in 1997 from the talented guitar player Aldo Lonobile and has released four full-lengths.
They released a fifth full-length cd in 2008 called Sweet Blood Theory.
From the official website :
The Foreshadowing rushed themselves into the abyss of the world in the fall of 2005. The idea takes its origins away back in 1997 by a load of necropolitan fragments of music picked up by Alessandro Pace (aka Alex Vega with Dope Stars Inc., ex Klimt 1918 & Spiritual Front), founder of the band. His friends Andrea Chiodetti (guitar player of Grimness and ex Spiritual Front) and Francesco Sosto (keyboard player, ex Spiritual Front and Klimt 1918 sessionman) joined him soon.
1) Gavroche is a street-punk band, wich started in march 2004 in Santena, a little city near Torino.The band born from the union of different bands: Gigio, Ale and Dieguito, come from a ska-punk band called Revenge, and Gio, was the singer of a combat-rock band called Rancore. In October 2005 the four kids, with the collaboration of Matte (Revenge), recorded their first work in wich speak about their life, dreams, hopes and disappointment…
http://www.myspace.com/gavrochestreetpunk
Christina Pluhar (born 1965, in Gratz, Austria) is an Austrian-born harpist, lutenist and theorbist, specialized in medieval and baroque music. In 2000 she founded the ensemble L'Arpeggiata. http://www.christinapluhar.com