17 Crash
Born in 2011 in Livorno. 17Crash is an Italian hard glam rock band
Since the beginning the main goals of the band were to create their own music (in pure 80' s L.A. glam rock style ) and play a lot live.
After working hard on their sound and on new material the band records their first rough promo/demo in October 2012 at the Big Wave studios .
This product includes three songs : " Let me live your rock n' roll ",
" Respect ", n' " Rock n' roll ". The tunes starts immediately to be heard and liked from many people on the net, on socials network and italian fanzines/webzines starts to show great interest about their music.
The band starts to join a several number of interviews, reviews and partecipations to radio shows, especially in Tuscany and Northern Italy. They started increasing fans from everywhere in the world with lotsa good responses.
They do festival, gigs everywhere from North to South and had the chance to share the stage with artist like : Adam Bomb, Crazy Lixx, Frankie Chavez, Faster Pussycat, Girlschool, Geoff Tate.
Their facebook page reachs 16.000 fan in 3 years and their Reverbnation page locate the band at the first place in the Livorno chart for months.
People really start to dig' em and the band keeps on writing songs when they don' t tour . Webzine and fanzine from Germany and Austria share review and promote their music in Europe and they get just good responses .
On February 2014 the songs are nominated for the " Best demo on line category " for the Livorno Music Awards 2014 by Il Tirreno " (main newspaper in Livorno) totally involved in the organization of this Awards event.
The band gets 1635 votes from the net and totally win the competition between others 120 bands.
On Saturday 24th May 2014 they get rewarded on the prestigious stage of " The Cage Theatre " of Livorno in front of a huge and euphoric audience .
They' ve been on the local newspaper three times and they' ve been included in the book " In fondo si suona " .
After months of workin' hard on new stuff they finally had enough material and so decided get in the Studio .
They wanted to start the recording of their first official full lenght album.
They will work with italian producer/musician Antonio Inserillo well known in the italian metal music panorama as former musician of bands like : Tossic, Death SS, Rhumornero and Motus Tenebrae, etc.
After one and a half year in tudio the record " Reading yor dirty minds " was released.
Achieving great success in a very quick time in Italy and taking good vibes even over the ocean.
Infact the band singed a record deal of worldwide distribution of the album with the great " Demon Doll Records " (USA).
They started touring Italy everywhere, from North to South with more than 70 live shows in one year, totally a record for a band like this in Italy !
On May 2016 the band was even called to perform at the prestigious " Wings of Bea Metal fest " in front of 2000 people as opening act for the legendary UK band " Girlschool ".
They get known even in Europe (Germany, Sweden , France) starting to get the attention of main music magazines ( Rock Hard, Metal Hammer) with great reviews about their live shows and music ( on papers and on the net ).
On September 2017 they singed a deal with Volcano Records and recorded for them another album more AOR oriented called "Hit the Prey " out on March 30th.