After a few shows, Rudy Medea (Indigesti – Vacation House Rec.) notices the strong live impact of the band, he offers the guys a deal that results in the self titled debut album, recorded in the first months of 1996 by the usual Paolo Mauri with the help of Livio Magnini (Bluvertigo). That first full length sees the very young and amazing Kuku join in on drums and contribute to the evolution of the sound. The production puts a certain emphasis on the impressive sound of the guitar, but without altering the overall equilibrium.
The critics greet them with open arms because of the blend between original composition, well-established italian roots (Negazione, Raw Power and Indigesti), and some New York reference. In the middle of 1996 Kuku and Mayo leaves the band. Their place is taken by the italo-swedish Enrico “Puglia” De Candia (on vocals) and Dario “Crema” Cremonesi (technical and fast drummer). They blend in immediately, the harmony is great, and the four get off to a flying start working very closely on writing new songs, looking for new solutions.
Their second album, “Così Distante”, is released at the beginning of 1998, again on Vacation House Rec. and again with Paolo Mauri on recording duties. The record is short, nervous, hectic, made of constant changes and strenuous stop&go. The lyrics are more and more inmost of feelings and desperate, and cryptically hold the real life stories of the band during that frantic and dense year of composition and sharing. “Così Distante” brought a flattering series of positive comments, lots of gigs and an even bigger following, quickly becoming the best selling title for Vacation House Rec.
After two years SOTTOPRESSIONE decide to step out of the way of pure hardcore to try to walk the path of post-hardcore and noise-stoner-rock. They compose ten new songs, and Vacation House Rec. fixes a catalogue number for the album without even waiting for it to be recorded, the artwork is almost finished anyway, and the title has already been chosen (“Il Capitano”). Of those ten songs only four can be stylistically defined hardcore (among them maybe the best track the band have ever written, “Dio solo sa che fine ho fatto”), but the equilibrium is now broken, and the guys find themselves in a hybrid and fuzzy time… when the band split up in December 2000.

April 2007 – Marh 2008: SOTTOPRESSIONE are back to play fast again, ready to embark in a tour that will touch all of the Italian peninsula. The chance springs from the highly demanded repress of their entire catalogue, which has been out of print for too much time, and finally out now as complete discography on double CD “1993-2000: A PIENO CARICO” (Bagana Rec./EDEL). They’re back in the line-up that saw them parting ways, coherent to what Fede-rico, Diste, Dario and Enrico told each other in that winter of seven years ago: “…if it will be again, we will start from where we left off…”.

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DISCOGRAPHY

E’ Il Momento 7” -1994	Sottopressione - 1996	Così Distante - 1998	1993-2000: A Pieno Carico - 2008