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Wanikiya Record/Promotion is pleased to present the legendary ANGUISH FORCE entering the roster of the Wanikiya family, with the eighth regular album “The W8 Of The Future”, which will be released on February 25 on all the best music stores in digital version, on our official store and also on our store in Japan!

After years of oblivion (from 1988 to 1994), spent writing pieces without having a band, in 1995, the guitarist LGD (Luigi Guarino D.), formed the first and precarious formation of ANGUISH FORCE, then known only as ANGUISH. LGD’s intent was to play the kind of music, with which he had grown up in the glorious 80’s and that in the current decade was being polluted with influences far from the classic Heavy Metal. And with this, going completely against the tide, he decided to put all his influences in the band, starting from Hardrock, going from Heavy Metal to Speed/Power, up to Thrash. A factor that still makes it difficult for those who try to label the style of this band.It wasn’t easy to find a stable line-up, at a time when proposing a Defenders type of music was equivalent to aiming a gun at your temple, but LGD didn’t give up and after a series of replacements, began to find more stable elements. So, from 1998 onwards, the first acerbic demos began to come out, followed by their first self-titled CD in 2003. After the first studio work, theband made its first leap in quality and began to play live more often, also participating in some major festivals. At the end of 2002, the band decided to change its name from ANGUISH to ANGUISH FORCE and then, in 2005, the second album with the title “2: City of Ice” was released.In the year 2006, the band records the single “Defenders united”.The year 2007 was conditioned by a serious accident, which occurred to the wrist of LGD, which seriously risked a premature end of his career as a guitarist and which kept ANGUISH FORCE in astandstill for a long period of time. A great dedication and an uncommon willpower motivated LGD until his hand joints started to work properly again. 2008 is the year of the concept “III: Invincible Imperivm Italicvm”, this CD presented itself then as the most ambitious, produced by this band. In the year 2009 comes the album “Created 4 self-destruction” and a collection of old and unreleased songs: “RRR 1988-1997” completely rearranged and re-recorded. After one year the EP “Cry, Gaia cry”. 2012 is the year of the masterpiece “Atzwang” and for the second chapter of the forgotten songs “RRR 1998-2002”. 2013 is the year of the cassette “Thrashin’ meteors”, album of Thrash Metal songs revisited with several unreleased tracks printed in only 100 copies. 2015 was the year of the sixth album “Sea Eternally Infested” and the moment for the two singles: the 12 ” limited vinyl ” The Bermuda’s triangle” and “Shark attack” with the bonus track “Rage”, used as the soundtrack of the homonymous short film. This is followed by “Chapter 7” and the singles “Stay away from the black hole” and “Metal disco satellite” from 2021. The new album of Anguish Force is finally out, entitled “The weight of the future”, the eighth regular album of the band from Bolzano, which was anticipated by the two EPs “Stay away from the black hole” and “Metal disco satellite”. It is a concept that talks about the cosmos and a probablefuture. The album was recorded at Studio on the Rocks in Barbiano and mixed by Tommaso Crisci at Genetica Studio in Laives. The cover is by Luca Bonardi, already collaborator as illustrator for Mickey Mouse and Alan Ford. The album varies between Heavy/Power and Speed/Thrash with a high rate of epicness.

Line-up:
DESMO – vocals
LGD – guitar
LUCK AZ – guitar
TUMBLER – bass
PEMMEL – drums