Metal Anarchy

Time for the next edition of Metal Anarchy’s “new music showcase,” the feature where I introduce you to artists that readers of this site may find interesting. This time I have a Q&A with Monkey Intrusion’s Vincenzo Reina.

METAL ANARCHY: Tell me a little about your band:

REINA: Hi guys, we are Monkey Intrusion a rock band from Italy. Marco Plesnicar (bass) and I (Vincenzo Reina guitar and voice) started when we were teenagers and played our own music, mainly prog rock. Ten years ago, we met Enrico Goti to hire the main voice and a second guitar and then we met Marco Bertoli with his powerful metal drums. Lately this year, Sara Cova a magnificent rock and soul singer joined the band.

METAL ANARCHY: Who are your main influences?

REINA: Our influences are very different, reflecting how we grew up as musicians. Marco Plesnicar and I were in love with many of the great bands of the seventies and eighties like Led Zeppelin, The Who, Genesis, Pink Floyd, Dire Straits, Police, as well as music geniuses like David Bowie and Peter Gabriel. Enrico and Marco Bertoli grew up with grunge and prog metal, Soundgarden, Queens of the Stone Age, Alice in Chains, Angra, Megadeth, Anthrax, and Sara brings her soul and hard rock influences.

METAL ANARCHY: What is your latest release and why should readers of this site check it out?

REINA: Our Album “Pussycats and Monkeymen” gathers the best songs we wrote in these years, melting all genres we love in a unique sound that represents all of us. If you like hard rock with no boundaries and want to listen to genuine heartful songs, you should check it out.

METAL ANARCHY: What can people expect when they go to your live shows?

REINA: Every show is different and intense, you will always find powerful metal drums, heavy guitars, pumping bass and three very different voices, singing and harmonising together.

METAL ANARCHY: Where do you see your band heading in 5 years?

REINA: Two other albums released, many gigs and most of all a huge audience all over the world in love with Monkey Intrusion’s songs.