Biography
There are 3 bands called Rapid Fire:
1. RAPID FIRE is an Italian power metal band born in 1998 in Milan from the rustless passion of three friends for 80s heavy metal and Running Wild.
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In 2001 they released "Rapid Fire", the first demo of three songs, "The Rising March", "The Tempest Of Fear" and "Red Passion".
Rapid Fire released the first album, "Scream!", in december 2004 with label "Adrenaline / Steelheart Records", and promoted it with many live dates.
After the original lineup disbanded, guitarist Marco Poliani and singer Antonio Pecere (already singer with Betoken, Komaday and Sigma) joined forces again to find new members and rebuild the band. Adding Marco Maffina on drums to enhance the foundations of rhytmics and Cesare Ferrari (previously playing with Blindness, Garden Of Madness and Shark Eye) on bass to complete the new lineup, Rapid Fire is back on the road!
Currently working on second record "Too Loud" while touring in northern Italy.
Current members:
Vocals: Antonio Pecere
Guitar: Marco Poliani
Drums: Marco "McFinn" Maffina
Bass: Cesare Ferrari
Former members:
Guitars, Vocals: Yuri Fiorani
Drums: Christian Fiorani
Links:
Official Site
MySpace
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2. American heavy/power metal band from San Francisco, California, USA. Recorded a demo in 1993. A full length, Settle the Score, was released in 2009, years after they split-up.
3. Shortly after his arrival in Los Angeles, Axl Rose met guitarist Kevin Lawrence outside The Troubadour in West Hollywood and joined his band Rapidfire. They recorded a five-song demo in May 1983, which, after years of legal action, was released as an EP, 'Ready to Rumble, in 2014.
Biography text from Last.fm, available under CC BY-SA.