Hocculta formed in 1983, heavy metal bands in Italy were flourishing at that time. Actually, Hocculta appeared on the first Italian compilation of heavy rock with the song “In The Vault” (Italian Metal Vol. 1 - Flying Records - 1984), that was the beginning of a magical time. In 1984 Warning Games came out, it was our first full length album and for us it represented the beginning of a long list of memorable moments: many live shows, big festivals…the most important one with Italian band Vanadium: amazing, crazy show! It was the best of the Italian heavy metal scene right there. Hocculta then kept going for a couple more years with Luca Trabanelli and Marco Bona on guitars, Tony Chiarito (bass), Floriano Buratti (on drums) and Massimo Lodini (vocals), but in 1986 Luca left the band and soon after Marco… It was a big shock for Hocculta. The power of their riffs was (…and still is) a very big part of “Warning Games” success. But that very year guitarist Roberto Broggi came in, and Hocculta became a “one guitar” band. The Tony and Roberto duo took the music towards a darker and eerily attitude. After a couple of years of sporadic live shows the second album was released: “Back In The Dark” … unfortunately did not follow the success of the first album. It was the end of a story that started at the speed of light. The band broke up and for 17 long years all that remained was the memory of those fantastic days. In 2005 a friend of Massimo asked him to get Hocculta back together, Massimo was reluctant because meanwhile involved in a completely different scene, mainly jazz… But, with a new group of musicians he rearranged few originals, a Scorpion’s cover (Black Out) and released an EP: “Taste The Return” (2006). From that moment on, Hocculta was getting back together almost by accident. In 2013 the single Lonely was released, Hocculta played some festivals in Italy but the times were not quite ripe. With Marco Bona (guitarist on Warning Games) and Daniele Pobbiati (Hocculta’s drummer 1985-1987) and, to make a story short, the band decided to start a new era… Massimo picked up the phone and called two old friends which back in the days were part of the band Brightlights: Siro Burchiani (Bass) and Gianmaria Scattolin (Guitar): Hocculta was born again. The new band is formed. Each one of us, during all those years, has grown and has experienced different things, we all have gone through different musical paths, but we all know where we’re coming from and all those experiences are now the ingredients that we’re mixing in the new compositions. So, we came back testing the waters with some live shows in Milano, a couple of festivals with many local and international bands and we realized that Hocculta is still a band with a lot of amazing fans, so this time we didn’t want to rush things. The last member of the band joined us only recently. She is the very young drummer Tiziana "Titti" Cotella, tremendous and powerful time machine that definitively closes the new line-up of the band.