Antonio Romano

Antonio Romano (born August 6, 1962) is an Argentine thrash metal guitarist. He has worked in Cerbero, Hermética, Malón, Visceral and Razones Concientes.

Biography Born in Caseros, Buenos Aires, son of Italian immigrants, Romano became a heavy metal musician after hearing an LP of Black Sabbath. He began his work in the 1980s, in a black metal band named "Cerbero". The band did not record any LP. He was considered a possible guitarist for V8 when Osvaldo Civile left that band, but he was not selected. Still, when V8's bassist Ricardo Iorio broke up the band in 1989, he hired Romano for his new band, Hermética, along with singer Claudio O'Connor and drummer Fabián Spataro. Romano composed the music of several songs of the new band. Hermética recorded three studio albums, and received a golden record for the sales of Ácido Argentino and Víctimas del Vaciamiento.

Hermética broke up in 1994, in controversial circumstances. Iorio created a new band, Almafuerte, with new musicians. Romano stayed with the other members of the band, O'Connor and Claudio Strunz (a new drummer that joined the band in 1991), and created a new band, Malón, with a similar music style. The bassist of this new band was Carlos Kuadrado, the former bassist of Cerbero. Malón recorded two studio albums. Romano commented that he considered Iorio to be better than Kuadrado writing lyrics, but praised instead Kuadrado as a bass player. Malón was reunited in 2011, this time with all the initial members.

Discography With Hermética Hermética – 1989 Intérpretes – 1990 Ácido Argentino – 1991 En Vivo 1993 Argentina – 1993 (live) Víctimas del Vaciamiento – 1994 Lo Último – 1995 En Concierto I&II – 1996

With Malón Espíritu Combativo – 1995 Justicia o Resistencia – 1996 Resistencia Viva – 1997 Malón (EP) – 2002 El regreso más esperado (DVD) – 2012

With Visceral Visceral – 1999 Arrancados Del Sistema – 2000

With Razones Concientes Razones concientes (Demo) – 2003 Industria Argentina – 2005 Dejando Huella – 2007 Razones concientes (Demo) – 2008

Solo 25 Años – 2011 (live) (With invited guests: Walter Meza, Pato Strunz, Larry Zavala, Willy Caballero, Guillermo Romero, Carlos Cabral, Christian Bertoncelli, Mario Ian, Juan Soto, Tito Garcia: also Tony Scotto was present) 30 Años (2016) Uno (2017)