From listening an old Metallica album called Master of puppets, this guy started to think that the right way to form a person is playing music!! In that period, during 1992, he began playing guitar taking lessons by Francesco Bertazza, a jazz and blues master, who took Fabio to move closer to the world of music and formed him with the first notions of this art. From the beginning, this passion rose more and more and took him to play the guitar many hours every day. He started approaching to songs of artists like Ac/Dc and Aerosmith and after two years of intense exercise he discovered the world of thrash metal, starting play in a band that was very close to that style of music.

But in a short time, he got tired of the little seriousness of the other members and decided to reach other persons to share that incredible passion for the music. In less of a year, during 1996, he received a phone call from a bass player that explained that his band needed to replace its lead guitar player due to personal reasons. That band, called Deluge, played Metallica covers. Incredible!! That was the right time! Fabio didn't hesitate and immediately took his role as new Kirk Hammett. Wow!

In the band has sung and played rhythm guitar Alessio Garavello, his past role in Ground Control; together they started to play also Megadeth songs and continued with this thrash assault, playing with the band in various venues. For Fabio, the passion of playing guitar rose more intensively and he decided to change his music master, reaching Dimitri Sardini with his powerful shredding hands: in this way, he came closer to the style of many guitarists like Kirk Hammett or Marty Friedman, the two closest with his way of playing, but also, he began to approach with artists like Jason Becker, Vinnie Moore, Alex Skolnick and Yngwie J. Malmsteen, his favourite.

After this period of style formation, Fabio and Alessio together decided to form a project based on a speed power metal and they founded Ravenloft with other two members and they split Deluge; they began to approach to the song composition and they play together in various local places but the plan of a power metal band proved a failure and the group disbanded soon.

Meanwhile, Alessio was contacted by Andrea Martongelli and took his role of lead singer in Arthemis band; Fabio, been left alone, decided to continue his career and persisted playing guitar trying to improve his style as better as possible.

In summer of 2000 Alessio decided to return with Fabio and they formed another thrash metal band, actual Ground Control.
After this reunion, Fabio began to compose, with the help of Alessio, various songs of his own, based on the old thrash bay area style, but also, thanks to Andrea Martongelli, his new guitar master, began to get closer to other styles of music and he took them to the new compositions of Ground Control.

Actually, Fabio continues to take lessons at Martongelli's school and contributes intensively to the life of Ground Control band with music compositions in genre.

Fabio Cavallaro uses Vigier,Ibanez and Hamer guitars and Huges and Kettner amps.

E-mail : Fabio Cavallaro

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