I suggest:
Old Yron (the recent release on CD by Shadow Kingdom)
Sabotage's "Rumore nel vento" (they sing in italian and the first song is killer!)
Strana Officina: mmm...actually the discography CD is a bit lame. Much better the recent "The faith" where the sound is much more powerful. One of those few bands whose shows are much much better and heavier now than 20 years ago...the singer is so funny, we never miss them playing
Vanadium: with the great Pino Scotto on vocals...though his solo career is a bit ridicolous. You should watch him on youtube as guest star on some italian tv programs...swearing, insulting, offensive, rude, vulgar...he's really funny if you're into italian language
Mondocane Project: well, a classic
Bulldozer: never been a great fan...
Rollerball: hehe, the guitar player lives in front of my grandparents' and I found it too late. Great first ep with great, scareful cover. They turned into pop-disco music later...
Fingernails: great! With some HC and Motorhead influences ... I got all their Demos on CD + live recordings...wish one day to print them all on CD, we're working on it....
Raff: the LP is rare as hell....very catchy and hc influenced metal from Rome...they were closely linked with HC legends Bloody Riot from Rome.
Fil Di Ferro: not bad, I found their 2nd and 3rd on CD...I wonder if there's also the 1st on CD...not bad
Rain: a very old italian metal band. They get some success now (I remember them supporting Pino Scotto a few months ago)...I got their homemade CD with early demos (1986) just because I share the same (rare) family name as the former guitar player: he sent me the CD for free just because of that...
Death SS: well...they're great. Through they changed into more experimental/new wave/electronic nu metal they're still great. Of course "Heavy demons" and "Black mass" are true masterpieces as well as their early stuff ("The horded god of the witches", "The story of Death SS")...Steve Sylvester always go to eat pizza in my friend's pizzeria, just 200 m far from my home
Crying Steel...not bad...but typical "italian sound". Maybe - being italian - I do not appreciate it so much...but Crying Steel are much better than other italian bands who play the same kind of music
Creepin Death: Errare humanum est is a nice Lp...one of my very first purchases...
Bulldozer: well a classic, everyone should know them already...
new bands: well....Rhapsody of course (I always hanged out with the keyboard player, I didn't know he played in Rhapsody. Then one day, wheile we were drinking a beer he said: "by the way, I play in a band called Rhapsody, maybe you've heard them before..."...), Wotan (with Mario on bass, one of the greatest movie collectors in the world, we share a website dedicated to old VHS and Super8...), and...well, too many...
plus of course a list of crappy italian music that I recently bought: Midway, Dark Lord, Feline Melinda, Eva, Axton, Mortuary Drape (they're even ok but I can't stand them as persons...), Paul Chain (
), The Black and all of those doom metal bands.....actually I think there were more bad sounding bands than good ones in Italy during the 80's...but this is maybe my personal point of view..