Still Blind are a heavy metal band from the Unterland

Überetsch-Unterland

Überetsch-Unterland is a district in the southern part of the Italian province of South Tyrol. It comprises the valley of the Adige river from Bolzano in the north to Salorno in the south....

 area in South Tyrol

South Tyrol

South Tyrol , also known by its Italian name Alto Adige, is an autonomous province in northern Italy. It is one of the two autonomous provinces that make up the autonomous region of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol. The province has an area of and a total population of more than 500,000 inhabitants...

, Italy formed in 1986 by the brothers Reinhold Giovanett, Hartmann Giovanett and Helmuth Giovanett.

History

One of the first metal band in South Tyrol, Stil Blind achieved international success during the 1980s, especially thank to their first album Still Blind (1989) and the following European tour (Encyclopaedia Metallum, 2007).
As one of the most successful and internationally popular bands from South Tyrol (Úplná databáze populární hudby, UMD, 1999), together with Graveworm

Graveworm

Graveworm is a symphonic black metal band from Bruneck, Italy with strong influences from gothic metal .-History:...

 and Skanners, Still Blind continued their carrier with the 1991 masterpiece Whales (The Metal Archives, 2002).
After been touring for years with the same line up, the band officially split in 2001, but the Giovanett Brothers continued parallel careers within several projects (Italian Metal Encyclopedia, 2001).
Helmuth Giovanett started concentrating on ethnic music, and his brother Reinhold published with Josef Oberhollenzer two demo-CDs: Kaspar Hauser (1999) and Hinter den Bergen (2000).
In 2004 Reinhold Giovanett founded Godzilla Intermezzo with the guitarist Roland Novak and the drummer Zeljko Marinković. The project started as a Motörhead-Coverband, but became more and more doom

Doom metal

Doom metal is an extreme form of heavy metal music that typically uses slower tempos, low-tuned guitars and a much "thicker" or "heavier" sound than other metal genres...

–progressive

Progressive metal

Progressive metal is a subgenre of heavy metal originating in the United Kingdom and North America in the late 1980s...

 metal oriented, with the album Orgasmatron, published in 2005.
The follower band of Still Blind was founded in 2009 by the guitarist Hartmann Giovanett with the name Embryonic Jam.
In the years between 2002 and 2007 various names and line ups followed, but the final line up was presented for the first live sessions of Embryonic Jam, with Hartmann Giovanett - guitars, David Tomasi

David Tomasi

- Biography :Born in the hamlet of Laag in the village of Neumarkt, South Tyrol, and a former teacher at the Waldorf School of Verona, Italy, Tomasi served as Assistant Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts of Verona, where he hold the Photography graduate/undergraduate course for the Visual Art...

 - vocals, bass and Lorenz Rinner - drums.

Band members

Current members: Embryonic Jam

• Hartmann Giovanett – guitars (1986–present)
• Lorenz Rinner – drums (2009–present)
• David Tomasi
  David Tomasi
  - Biography :Born in the hamlet of Laag in the village of Neumarkt, South Tyrol, and a former teacher at the Waldorf School of Verona, Italy, Tomasi served as Assistant Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts of Verona, where he hold the Photography graduate/undergraduate course for the Visual Art...
  
   – lead vocals, bass (2009–present)

Former members: Godzilla Intermezzo

• Reinhold Giovanett – lead vocals (2004–2006)
• Roland Novak – guitars (2004–2006)
• Zeljko Marinković – drums (2004–2006)

Original members: Still Blind

• Reinhold Giovanett – lead vocals, bass
• Hartmann Giovanett – guitars
• Helmuth Giovanett – drums

Discography

• S.B., Demotape, 1987
• Still Blind, EP, 1989
• Whales, Full Length + CD, 1991
• Traum:sturz, Mini-CD, 1996
• Demo, CD, 2003 (Skritek)
• Live I, CD, 2004 (Worbet)
• Live II, CD, 2005 (Worbet)
• Demo, CD, 2010 (Embryonic Jam)

The newest DVD with the name Embryonic Jam, Metal from the North, will be released november 2011 at the CRAM

CRAM

CRAM, or Card Random Access Memory, model 353-1, was a data storage device invented by NCR, which first appeared on their model NCR-315 mainframe computer in 1962....

 Centre for Art Research, and will present the concert performed in 2009 together with B Painfull, Hungerstrike and Black Thongues.

External links

• - Blindness Records Official website
• - StrilloStrano, Italy
• - Metal Archives
• - Rock'nRoll, Italy
• - SunShine, Italy
• - Metal Hammer, UK
• - Rock Net
• - Spirit of Metal, France
• - Kiasma, Italy
• - The Corroseum
• - UMD, Czech Republic

Published sources

• Floropoulos, D (2009) Still Blind, in Encyclopaedia Metallum
• Della Gioppa, G (2005), Still Blind, in Italian Metal Legion – 1980–1991 – The Days of Dream, Andromeda Relix Edizioni
• Franceschini, C (2005), Keine Lemmynge, Neue Südtiroler Tageszeitung
• Schäfer, W (2000), Whales, Rock Hard Deutschland, Nr. 64