Two cult classics of the late 1980s, early 1990s Hard Rock and Metal genre are now available via High Roller Records on all formats:

Songwriter and vocalist Peppi Marchello was the founder of the legendary hard rock/AOR outfit The Good Rats from Long Island. The band was amassing an enormous regional following but never broke through on a nationwide scale. By 1984, The Good Rats were on hold and Peppi Marchello started working on a collaboration with his son Gene Marchello, who was an up and coming guitar player in his own right. The initial name of the project was to be “Popzarocca” but CBS Records at the time thought it wiser for Marchello senior to stay in the background and take on the role of songwriter and producer, with son Gene being the focus of the band as guitarist and vocalist.

Gene explains: “The company wasn’t really interested in my dad, he was an older guy and really after a while he thought that this could be the time to give me the chance.”

Thus “Marchello” the band, fronted by the one and only Gene Marchello was born…

In March 1989, Marchello’s debut album “Destiny” hit the shelves, combining high quality AOR/melodic heavy rock with Gene’s amazing vocals and fretboard skills. The song “First Love” was chosen as the first single and achieved heavy rotation on MTV.

Today, “Destiny” is hailed as a forgotten gem of the genre.

However, this was not the end of Marchello, as the band started work on a second album… Gene takes over the story: “Same band line-up… we tried a few different producers, but again it felt best with me and my dad taking the lead on the direction“

The two Marchello’s completed the material for the projected second album, songs such as “Every Man’s Lover”, “Wall Of Paper” and the epic “All God’s Angels” were scheduled to be published by CBS in 1991… In the end though, the actual release was canceled by the label (exact reasons unknown but the changing landscape toward grunge was causing the major labels of the time to reposition their focus away from metal bands of the 1980s).

Also now available via High Roller Records, you can hear now with your own ears that the second Marchello album “Power Of Money“, also newly remastered, is every note as good as Marchello’s debut album – if not better.

These new remastered editions of both albums on High Roller Records will surely make the name Gene Marchello known to a much broader public… and as for new Marchello music… watch this space!

For fans of high quality melodic 1980s hard rock / metal as diverse as: TNT, Fifth Angel, Journey, Riot, Dokken.