GUITAR

Name: Matteo

Surname: Corbara

Born: December 8th 2000

Place of Birth: Forlì, Italy

Bio:

Matteo also plays for:

– Mestrayed Band

– Shrynk Band

Matteo approaches the music world thanks to his father, a rock music lover and novice guitarist, who, at the age of two, gives him a toy keyboard on which he begins to play the theme songs of his favorite cartoons.

A few years later, at the age of 8, he began the study of guitar at Cosascuola music academy based in Forlì, where he will study for the next 10 years under the supervision of his teacher Marco Franchini (certified by the “Musicians Institute”).

Matteo plays in many live contexts with various local bands made of friends who went to his own music school.

In 2016 he founded Gatecloser with Alessandro Cupici, with whom he began his career as a musician. Matteo become a guitar teacher in 2020.

Main influences:

Steve Ray Vaughan, Dimebag Darrell, Zakk Wylde, Synyster Gates, Nuno Bettencourt, Eddie Van Halen.

Trivia:
• He has the hobby of videogames since he was a child and still likes to play games in style MMO and Open world
• Matteo has always listened to a lot of music outside the rock / metal environment, he is a great lover of blues, fusion and derivatives and has always listened, played and talked to musicians of any genre. He doesn’t get along with the jazz too much
• It is also known by the nickname “Guncotton” given to him in a review of a date in Rome by the journalist who describes his solos “at the guncotton”