About the band…

Short biography

Extinction is a thrash / death metal band born in 1995 in Puglia, a region of southern Italy. Despite the interest generated and the numerous concerts, the band has already stopped at the end of 1997.

We have to wait until 2014 to hear about Extinction again when founding guitarist Danilo Bonuso re-founded the band in Turin in the north of Italy.
Between 2018 and 2023 Extinction made another progressive line-up change that brought the band to the current lineup with Danilo Bonuso on guitars, Lorenzo Aimo on drums, Lorenzo Catolla on bass and Howling SSTAR on vocals.

Line Up

Danilo Bonuso

Guitars

Instrumentation

  • Guitars: Jackson PDX-2 Demmelition KING V RW RBB (modified with Seymour Duncan Nazgul pick-up); Charvel DX1-FR Desolation soloist; ESP Ltd MH 1000 FR
  • Head: EVH 5150 Icon 80W
  • Amp: Marshall 100W Celestion 4×12 cones
  • Effect: Mooer Green Mile overdrive, Mooer booster, Boss noise gate, Boss Harmonizer, Behringer Auto Wah, Boss Delay

Favorite bands

  • Iron Maiden
  • Sepultura
  • Pantera
  • Mercyful Fate
  • Judas Priest
  • … and many others!

Favorite movies

  • The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
  • Back to the Future trilogy
  • Nightmare (all movies)
  • Phenomena
  • Top Secret

Favorite books

  • Illuminati
  • Lux Tenebrae
  • Governo Globale
  • False Flag
  • Fake News
  • La Fabbrica Della Manipolazione

Things I hate

Falsehood and hypocrisy

Final words…

Use your brain and don’t believe everything

Lorenzo Aimo

Drums

Instrumentation

  • Tama silverstar
  • Zildjian cymbals

Favorite bands

  • Tesseract
  • Lamb of God
  • Gojira
  • Destrage
  • Ska-P
  • … and many others!

Favorite movies

  • Django Unchained
  • The Hateful Eight
  • Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Favorite books

  • The Gay Science
  • Timeo
  • On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense

Things I hate

Shallowness

Final words…

“The uncritically accepted morality is the herd instinct in the individual” (Nietzsche)

Alessandro Villa

Guitars

Instrumentation

  • Guitars: Jackson Pro Monarkh Satin Black; Jackson JS32 modified with Seymour Duncan Black winter (neck) Nazgul (Bridge) and Gotoh Floyd Rose
  • Head: ENGL IronBall E606 + Z-4
  • Amp: Orange PPC112

Favorite bands

  • Death
  • Symphony X
  • Opeth
  • Children Of Bodom
  • Wintersun
  • Judas Priest
  • and…many others!

Favorite movies

  • The Shinning
  • Blade Runner
  • Dune (1984)
  • All Quiet on the Western Front (1931/2022)
  • Alien trilogy
  • LOTR trilogy

Favorite books

  • Tolkien works!
  • It and The Shinning by Stephen King
  • Blade Runner – Philip Dick
  • Dune trilogy by Frank Herbert
  • Conan the Barbarian by Robert E Howard
  • Book of Blood – Clive Barker
  • Books of philosophy (Nietzsche; Saint Augustine)

Things I hate

Hypocrisy above all, selfishness and injustice in ecery form.

Final words…

“Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times will be good. We are the times: such as we are, such are the times.”
(Saint Augustine – Sermo 80, 8)

Alessandro

Lorenzo Catolla

Bass

Instrumentation

  • Bass: Warwick Thumb 5
  • Head: MesaBoogie
  • Amp: Markbass
  • Effect: Darkglass/Boss

Favorite bands

  • Pantera
  • Sepultura
  • Slayer
  • Metallica
  • Megadeth
  • Machine Head
  • … and many others!

Favorite movies

  • Alien
  • Star Trek
  • Star Wars
  • … and many others!

Favorite books

  • Moby Dick
  • The Adventures of Oliver Twist
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray

Things I hate

Hot weather, pain in the ass, prejudices…

Final words

Let the water run

Howling SSTAR

Vocals

Instrumentation

  • Heil Sound PR 35 dynamic cardioid microphone

Favorite bands

  • Manowar
  • Death SS
  • Wednesday 13
  • Dark Tranquillity
  • Deathstars
  • Rob Zombie
  • Synth pop, darkwave and EBM music

Favorite movies

  • Young Frankenstein
  • Star Wars saga
  • Conan the Barbarian
  • Nirvana
  • All John Carpenter’s movies

Favorite books

  • All Lovecraft works
  • Stormbringer saga
  • The strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
  • D. Buzzati works
  • Tolkien works

Things I hate

Omophobia and transphobia, bullying, bodyshaming, religion, politicians and silly restrictions on individual freedom.

Final words

  • Blow up your mind!