Tarantula (band)
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Tarantula is a Portuguese power metal band established in 1981, and ranked as one of the first power metal bands. Active ever since, Tarantula has played many concerts throughout Europe with a larger emphasis in Portugal and Germany. The current members of the band are Jorge Marques (vocals), Paulo Barros (guitar), José Aguiar (bass) and Luís Barros (drums).
Members
[edit]Jorge Marques (vocals) - Jorge is the singer of Tarantula since 1989. He is also a painter and a plastic artist.[1] His first band was the Portuguese thrash metal band Web.
Paulo Barros (guitars) - Paulo is a Portuguese guitarist and one of the founders of the band. As a solo artist Paulo has played in the 1980s and 1990s in several European countries.[2]
Luís Barros (drums) - Luis along with his brother Paulo Barros is one of the founding members of the band. Luís is also a producer and a recording engineer and has been is in charge of recording, mixing and producing many of the bands records since their inception.[3] Luís owns and runs the recording studio Rec'n'Roll where many relatively successful metal and rock bands have recorded.[4]
José Aguiar (bass) - José is the bass player of Tarantula since 1994. Before Tarantula he was a member of the Portuguese rock band Roxigénio.[5]
Discography
[edit]Studio albums
[edit]- 1987: Tarantula
- 1990: Kingdom of Lusitania
- 1993: III
- 1995: Freedom’s Call
- 1998: Light Beyond the Dark
- 2000: Dream Maker
- 2005: Metalmorphosis
- 2010: Spiral of Fear
- 2021: Thunder Tunes From Lusitania
Tributes
[edit]- 2001: 20 Anos de Tarantula – Tributo
Paulo Barros discography
[edit]Studio albums
[edit]- 1997: Vintage
- 2003: Gemini
- 2007: K:arma 7
- 2015: 4
- 2018: More Humanity Please
References
[edit]- ^ Costa, Nuno. "Jorge Marques [Tarantula] expõe pinturas em mostra internacional de Góis". Retrieved 2021-10-05.
- ^ Tarantula at AllMusic
- ^ "Luis Barros | Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 2021-10-06.
- ^ "Rec'n'Roll Studio". Rec`n`Roll Studio (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 2021-10-06.
- ^ "Roxigénio - discography, line-up, biography, interviews, photos". www.spirit-of-rock.com. Retrieved 2021-10-06.
External links
[edit]- Tarantula at AFM Records website
- Apache2 Debian Default Page: It works at official Tarantula website (the home page plays an mp3 file automatically)
- Tarantula article at MusicMight
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