Quote from: SILVUM on January 03, 2014, 12:50:37 PM
What other kind of bizarre and awesome bands in Italy existed around that time? I know that's a broad question, but I am always ready to learn more. Were these guys a total oddity or were there other similarly outlandish for the time projects on a local scale?
This is a very difficult question. In Italy, especially at that time, even music magazines weren't so widely distributed, so if you didn't live in one of the big cities and didn't have the means to "connect" to what was going on in the rest of the country (maybe simply because you didn't know anyone else that was into what you liked), you were pretty much isolated from everything. This didn't stop people from being creative, though, and with maybe just a few bits of inspiration (the odd Kiss photo in a national newspaper, some news report on satanism, you name it) people who maybe lived in more secluded or less urban areas, like the guys from Sagatrakavashen, came out with their odd and/or highly personal version of the music they liked. Not always with the best of results, obviously.
That's to say that even if you live in Italy, coming across this kind of odd bands is sheer luck, as they were not distributed or even known outside their close friends' circles. Sagatrakavashen managed to score a review in a "big" magazine, but knowing how snobbish was the average Italian metal journo at the time, I bet they just got wrote off as a bunch of idiots and sold maybe 5 copies of that demo...
Anyway, I can't name other weird projects off the top of my head right now... but maybe Marco (tiny_tove), who is way more knowledgeable than me, will chime in. Only The Great Complotto from late seventies Pordenone comes to mind, but if you're familiar with XX Century Zorro I bet you already know about it.
