Alessandro Del Vecchio
Alessandro Del Vecchio is an Italian musician, record producer and songwriter. He is a current member of hard and heavy bands Edge of Forever, Hardline, Jørn Lande and Vanden Plas.
He is also well known for his collaborations with hard rock and heavy metal artists such as Revolution Saints, Fergie Frederiksen, Ted Poley, Kelly Keeling, Mat Sinner and Alex Beyrodt, and for his work as the in-house producer for Neapolitan record label Frontiers Music SRL from his personal Ivorytears Music Works Studio located just north of Milan.
Biography
Formation
Born and raised in Italy, his career started at a very young age while honing his skills as a singer, songwriter and versatile instrumentalist. Among his many musical accomplishments, Alessandro found himself at the pinnacle of the industry's most difficult processes. Alessandro began indulging in producing, engineering and mastering hundreds of world-class Billboard chart-topping albums, including a multitude of collaborations from the most sought-after rock groups in the world.Edge of Forever, Moonstone Project and Lionville (2003-2011)
Some of Alessandro's most memorable accomplishments were with famed artists Jeff Scott Soto and Marcel Jacob of Talisman and Malmsteen in 2003. In fact, in 2004, they worked collectively on compositions like Edge of Forever's Feeding The Fire, which also featured Bob Harris from Frank Zappa and Axe and in 2005 on second album Let The Demon Rock And Roll.In 2006 Alessandro was called to sing, play Hammond organ and keyboards in the Moonstone Project first album Time to Take a Stand featuring Kelly Keeling, Graham Bonnet, Glenn Hughes, James Christian, Carmine Appice, Paul Shortino, Steve Walsh, Ian Paice, Tony Franklin and Roberto Tiranti.
In 2009, Alessandro resumed the Edge of Forever project without Bob Harris and Marcel Jacob, but with himself on vocals, keyboards and producing and with a new line-up, released the third album Another Paradise. In the same year he was in the Moonstone Project second album Rebel on the Run with artists as Clive Bunker, James Christian, Robin Beck, Roberto Tiranti, Glenn Hughes, Ken Hensley and Ian Paice.
In 2011 he formed Lionville project with Stefano Lionetti and produced and released the eponymous album with collaboration of Swedish singer Lars Säfsund.
Frontiers Records (2011-2024)
Hardline, Lioville, Alex Beyrodt/Mat Sinner and Revolution Saints
In 2011 Frontiers Records called Alessandro for third Johnny Gioeli's Hardline reformation and in 2012 he produced, arranged and played their new album Danger Zone with hit "Fever Dreams". In the same year, he produced, arranged and played the Lionville second album II.In 2013 Alessandro was on keyboards in German guitar player Alex Beyrodt's project Silent Force for Rising from Ashes album in which he started a long-term collaboration with German guitar player and producer Alex Beyrodt. In the same year Alessandro collaborated with Toto former singer Fergie Frederiksen for his solo album Any Given Moment.
In 2014 he produced, wrote, recorded, played keyboards, mixed and mastered the eponymous album of supergroup Rated X formed by Joe Lynn Turner, Karl Cochran, Tony Franklin and Carmine Appice.
In January 2015 Frontiers combined the skills of Alessandro with German bass player and producer Mat Sinner for the Level 10 record with Symphony X singer Russell Allen the album Chapter One with Randy Black on drums, Alex Beyrodt and Roland Grapow on guitars.
Alessandro continued his collaboration with Sinner and Beyrodt with David Readman on vocals and Francesco Jovino on drums on Voodoo Circle album Whisky Fingers released in November.
2015 was an important year for Alessandro because of Revolution Saints' eponymous album with Deen Castronovo, Doug Aldrich and Jack Blades. This album received important international feedbacks and was acclaimed for Alessandro production and songwriting, particularly for the hit "Back of My Trail". In the same yeah Alessandro worked for supergroup Resurrection Kings for eponymous album and for Kelly Keeling with the album Mind Radio.
Sunstorm, Jorn, Edge of Forever return and Jeff Scott Soto
In 2016, Frontiers entrusted Alessandro Joe Lynn Turner's project Sunstorm for new production, keyboards and songwriting after Dennis Ward's three-album era. He called on guitar Simone Mularoni of DGM, on bass guitar Nik Mazzucconi of Labyrinth and Edge of Forever and on drums Francesco Jovino of Hardline, Primal Fear, Voodoo Circle and Edge of Forever. On May they released Edge of Tomorrow. In the same year Alessandro started collaboration with Norwegian metal singer Jorn and he produced and played keyboards on cover album Heavy Rock Radio. In October he released with Hardline's Human Nature album.In 2017, Mat Sinner asked Alessandro to become one of the singers of the massive production of "The Original Rock Meets Classic", featuring the likes of Don Felder, Steve Lukather, Rick Springfield, Francis Rossi among many others. On June he wrote, produced, recorded, played keyboards on, mixed and mastered the new Jorn album Life on Death Road with musicians of the Voodoo Circle's Whisky Fingers Mat Sinner on bass guitar, Alex Beyrodt on guitars and Francesco Jovino on drums. On September Alessandro was involved as producer, session musician, songwriter and sound engineer for Kee of Hearts' eponymous album, a project with German singer Tommy Heart, Swedish virtuoso guitar player Kee Marcello, Swedish bass guitar player Ken Sandin and Italian drummer Marco Di Salvia. On October Revolution Saints released their second album Light in the Dark under complete artistic supervision of Alessandro. In the same year he mixed and mastered the Lionville third album A World of Fools not as band member.
In 2018 Alessandro was active with House of Lords singer James Christian for his solo album Craving as producer and sound engineer. On June Sunstorm returned with the new The Road to Hell with Edo Sala on drums and on July he produced, wrote, played keyboards on, recorded, mixed and mastered Set The World On Fire for Johnny Gioeli and Deen Castronovo project, both on vocals. On September Alessandro was involved in the new project called Dream Child with Argentinian singer Diego Valdez, Craig Goldy and Wayne Findlay on guitars, Rudy Sarzo on bass guitar and Simon Wright on drums for the album Until Death Do We Meet Again and in the project Groundbreaker with Steve Overland of FM and Robert Säll of Work of Art and W.E.T. for the eponymous album. On December produced, played keyboards, recorded and engineered on Johnny Gioeli first solo album called One Voice.
In 2019 guitar player and producer Roy Z called Alessandro to play keyboards as session on supergroup Spirits of Fire's eponymous album with musicians as Tim Owens on vocals, Chris Caffery on guitars, Steve Di Giorgio on bass guitar and Mark Zonder on drums. On March Jeff Pilson and George Lynch called Alessandro to mix and master The End Machine's eponymous album. In the same month Alessandro produced, mixed and mastered Burning Rain fourth album Face the Music with Doug Aldrich on guitars, Keith St. Jones on vocals, Brad Lang on bass guitar and Blas Elias on drums. On April Hardline released their new album called Life with new Italian musicians Mario Percudani on guitar and Marco Di Salvia on drums and in May Alessandro recorded for Lords of Black Spanish guitar player the Restless Spirits' eponymous album with the collaboration of Johnny Gioeli, Diego Valdez, Dino Jelusić and Deen Castronovo. On June Jorn released live album Live on Death Road with Alessandro on production, keyboards and engineering. In December, Alessandro returned with Edge of Forever and their album Native Soul. The new line-up is formed by Nik Mazzucconi on bass guitar, Aldo Lonobile on guitar and Marco Di Salvia on drums, respectively, instead of Walter Galiaro and Francesco Jovino. In the same mouth Alessandro released Lovekillers' eponymous album featuring TNT singer Tony Harnell.
In 2020, Alessandro returned with Revolution Saints, which recorded Rise in collaboration with Dan Rossall on songwriting. In the same day Jorn released Heavy Rock Radio II: Executing The Classics with Alessandro on producing, recording, keyboards, engineering and Dirty Shirley released their eponymous album with Alessandro on producing, recording, mixing and mastering. In February, Alessandro was involved with mixing and mastering of supergroup Black Swan's Shake the World and with new Hardline live Life: Live. In the middle of the year, Alessandro was involved in songwriting, keyboards, bass and producing in a hard rock project of Canadian singer Rosa Laricchiuta called Black Rose Maze with Italian musicians Andrea Seveso and Michele Sanna. At the end of 2020, Alessandro began the new collaboration with the singer Jeff Scott Soto and produced, wrote, arranged, played keyboards and bass on the solo album Wide Awake .
Robin McAuley, Michael Sweet, Tracii Guns and Giant
In 2021, Alessandro wrote, produced, and played new album of Issa called Queen of Broken Hearts. Sunstorm returned with new singer Ronnie Romero instead of Joe Lynn Turner and new drummer Michele Sanna instead of Edo Sala, and it recorded a new album Afterlife. In the middle of the year, Alessandro started his collaboration with Robin McAuley and wrote, produced, played keyboards and bass in the album Standing on the Edge. At the same time, he released with Michael Sweet of Stryper and Tracii Guns of L.A. Guns the project Sunbomb with the album Evil and Divine. In July, Hardline released the new album Heart, Mind and Soul. In 2021, Resurrection Kings returned without Sean McNabb on bass, replaced by Alessandro, who also played keyboards. The new album was called Skygazer. In September, Alessandro produced, played keyboards on, mixed and mastered the eponymous album of the new project with Metal Church former singer Ronny Munroe called Between Worlds. At the end of 2021, Alessandro produced, played keyboards on, mixed and mastered the first cover duets album of Jeff Scott Soto called The Duet Collection, Vol. 1 and wrote, produced, played keyboards on, mixed and mastered Groundbreaker's second album called Soul to Soul.In January 2022, Alessandro took part in Giant reunion with new singer Kent Hilli from the Perfect Plan band. The album was called Shifting Time which Alessandro produced, played keyboards on, mixed and mastered. At the same time, Edge of Forever released the new album Seminole. In April, Alessandro started a new collaboration with Ronnie Romero for a cover album called Raised on Radio. At the same time, Alessandro produced, mixed, mastered and played keyboards and bass on the new album Little Bang Theory for the new project Poison Rose with Marco Sivo on vocals, Aldo Lonobile and Andrea Seveso on guitars, and Edo Sala on drums. In this period, Alessandro mixed and mastered the Black Swan's second album Generation Mind. In May, he wrote, played keyboards and bass on, produced, mixed and mastered Jeff Scott Soto's album Complicated. In the same month Alessandro collaborated in the new supergroup project called Skills with Renan Zonta of Electric Mob on vocals, Brad Gillis on guitars, Billy Sheehan on bass and David Huff of Giant on drums with the album Different Worlds on which he played keyboards and produced, mixed and mastered. In Jun,e Alessandro took part in the new project Iconic with Nathan James of Inglorious on vocals, Michael Sweet and Joel Hoekstra on guitars, Marco Mendoza on bass and Tommy Aldridge on drums. The band released the album Second Skin on which Alessandro played keyboards and co-produced with Sweet, mixed and mastered. In the same month, Alessandro released the new Jorn album Over the Horizon Radar on keyboards and mixing. In August, the Sunstorm returned with a new album Brothers in Arms with Luca Princiotta on guitar instead of Simone Muraloni. In November Alessandro took part in the new project Enemy Eyes with Johnny Gioeli on vocals, Marcos Rodriguez on guitars and Fabio Alessandrini on drums with their album History's Hand.
Discography
As actual band member
| Band | Album details | Role |
| Edge of Forever | Feeding the Fire
| Composer, Co-producer, Keyboards, Backing Vocals |
| Edge of Forever | Let the Demon Rock 'n' Roll | Composer, Keyboards |
| Edge of Forever | Another Paradise | Composer, Arrangements, Producer, Recording, Mixing, Keyboards, Vocals |
| Edge of Forever | Native Soul | Composer, Arrangements, Producer, Recording, Mixing, Mastering, Keyboards, Vocals |
| Edge of Forever | Seminole | Composer, Arrangements, Producer, Recording, Mixing, Mastering, Keyboards, Vocals |
| Edge of Forever | Ritual | Composer, Arrangements, Producer, Recording, Mixing, Mastering, Keyboards, Vocals |
| Hardline | Danger Zone | Composer, arrangements, Producer, Recording, Mixing, Mastering, Keyboards, Backing vocals |
| Hardline | Human Nature | Composer, Arrangements, Producer, Recording, Mixing, Mastering, Keyboards, Backing vocals |
| Hardline | Life | Composer, Arrangements, Producer, Recording, Mixing, Mastering, Keyboards, Backing vocals |
| Hardline | Heart, Mind and Soul | Composer, Arrangements, Producer, Recording, Mixing, Mastering, Keyboards, Backing vocals |
| Jorn | Heavy Rock Radio | Recording, Keyboards, Backing vocals |
| Jorn | Life on Death Road | Composer, Arrangements, Producer, Recording, Mixing, Mastering, Keyboards, Backing vocals |
| Jorn | Heavy Rock Radio II - Executing the Classics | Arrangements, Producer, Recording, Mixing, Mastering, Keyboards |
| Jorn | Over the Horizon Radar | Additional Recording, Mixing, Mastering, Keyboards |
| Vanden Plas | The Empyrean Equation Of The Long Lost Things | Recording, Keyboards |
As former band member
| Band | Album details | Role |
| Moonstone Project | Rebel on the Run
| Composer, Co-producer, Recording, Editing, Co-mixing, Keyboards, Drums, Backing Vocals |
| Shining Line | Shining Line | Composer, Producer, Recording, Editing, Mixing, Mastering, Keyboards, Vocals |
| Eden's Curse | Trinity | Keyboards, Additional editing |
| Lionville | Lionville | Composer, Arranger, Producer, Recording, Mixing, Mastering, Keyboards, Backing vocals |
| Lionville | II | Producer, Mixing, Mastering, Keyboards, Backing Vocals |
| Silent Force | Rising from Ashes | Keyboards |
| Alex Beyrodt's Voodoo Circle | Whisky Fingers | Composer, Co-arrangements, Recording, Mixing, Mastering, Keyboards, Vocals |
Other projects
| Year | Band | Title | Notes |
| 2006 | Moonstone Project | Time To Take A Stand | producer, songwriting, keyboards, vocals, mixing, mastering |
| 2006 | Lizhard | Lizhard | co-producer, keyboards, mixing, mastering |
| 2012 | Issa | Can't Stop | producing, keyboards, recording, mixing, mastering |
| 2013 | Fergie Frederiksen | Any Given Moment | producing, songwriting, keyboards, vocals, mixing, mastering |
| 2013 | Place Vendome | Thunder in the Distance | songwriting on track 1, 2, 7, 8, 9 and 13 |
| 2013 | Find Me | Wings of Love | songwriting on tracks 1, 2, 4, 9 |
| 2014 | Rated X | Rated X | producing, songwriting, keyboards, vocals, recording, mixing, mastering |
| 2014 | Ez Livin' | Firestorm | mixing, mastering |
| 2014 | L.R.S. | Down to the Core | producing, recording, mixing, mastering, songwriting, keyboards, backing vocals |
| 2014 | Three Lions | Three Lions | producing, recording, mixing, mastering, songwriting, keyboards |
| 2014 | Bailey | Long Way Down | producing, recording, mixing, mastering, keyboards, additional backing vocals |
| 2015 | Resurrection Kings | Resurrection Kings | producer, songwriting, keyboards, vocals, mixing, mastering |
| 2015 | Revolution Saints | Revolution Saints | producer, songwriting, keyboards, vocals, mixing, mastering |
| 2015 | Level 10 | Chapter One | songwriting, keyboards |
| 2015 | Docker's Guild | The Heisenberg Diaries – Book A: Sounds of Future Past | mixing |
| 2015 | Maya | The Prophecy is Broken | recording, mixing, mastering |
| 2015 | Kelly Keeling | Mind Radio | producing, recording, mixing, mastering, songwriting, keyboards, backing vocals |
| 2016 | Sunstorm | Edge of Tomorrow | producer, songwriting, keyboards, vocals |
| 2016 | Faithsedge | Restoration | keyboards |
| 2016 | Rebelhot | Rebelhot | mastering |
| 2016 | Ted Poley | Beyond the Fade | producer, recording, mixing, mastering, additional guitar, drums, keyboards, backing vocals |
| 2016 | Roth Brock Project | Roth Both Project | mixing, mastering |
| 2017 | Revolution Saints | Light in the Dark | producer, songwriting, keyboards, vocals, mixing, mastering |
| 2017 | Place Vendome | Close to the Sun | additional Choirs on "Strong", songwriting "Strong" and "Yesterday is Gone" |
| 2017 | Kee of Hearts | Kee of Hearts | producer, keyboards, vocals, recording, mixing |
| 2017 | Lionsoul | Welcome Storm | producing, recording, mixing, mastering, backing vocals |
| 2017 | Eisley/Goldy | Blood, Buts and Games | mixing, mastering, additional keyboards on tracks 3, 5 and 7 |
| 2017 | Graham Bonnet Band | Live... Here Come the Night | recording, mixing, mastering |
| 2017 | Tyketto | Live from Milan 2017 | recording |
| 2017 | Treat | The Road More ore Less Traveled | recording |
| 2017 | All 4 1 | The World's Best Hope | producer, keyboards, backing vocals, mixing, mastering |
| 2017 | Lionville | A World of Fools | mixing, mastering |
| 2018 | Sunstorm | The Road to Hell | producer, songwriting, keyboards, vocals, mixing, mastering |
| 2018 | Mr. Big | Live From Milan | producer |
| 2018 | Gioeli-Castronovo | Set The World On Fire | producer, songwriting, keyboards, vocals, mixing, mastering |
| 2018 | James Christian | Craving | producer, keyboards on "Jesus Swept" |
| 2018 | L.A. Guns | Made in Milan | producer, mixing, mastering |
| 2018 | Dream Child | Until Death Do Do We Meet Again | producer, songwriting, keyboards, vocals, mixing, mastering |
| 2018 | Johnny Gioeli | One Voice | producer, recording, keyboards, mixing, mastering |
| 2018 | Nanowar of Steel | Stairway to Valhalla | producer, mixing, mastering, keyboards |
| 2018 | Labyrinth | Return to Live | recording, mixing, mastering |
| 2018 | State of Salazar | Superhero | mixing, mastering |
| 2018 | Issa | Run with the Pack | producer, recording, mixing, mastering, songwriting, keyboards |
| 2018 | Groundbreaker | Groundbreaker | producer, recording, mixing, mastering, songwriting, keyboards |
| 2018 | Steelheart | Rock 'N Milan | recording, mastering |
| 2018 | Alcatrazz | Parole Denied: Tokyo 2017 | mixing, mastering |
| 2019 | Quiet Riot | One Night in Milan | producer, keyboards, mixing, mastering |
| 2019 | Spirits of Fire | Spirits of Fire | keyboards |
| 2019 | Restless Spirits | Restless Spirits | recording, vocals on track 8, songwriting and vocals on track 9, backing vocals on tracks 2, 6 and 7 |
| 2019 | The End Machine | The End Machine | mixing, mastering |
| 2019 | Burning Rain | Face the Music | producer, mixing, mastering |
| 2019 | Lovekillers feat. Tony Harnell | Lovekillers | producer, recording, mixing, mastering, songwriting, keyboards, bass guitar, vocals |
| 2019 | TNT | Encore: Live in Milano | recording |
| 2019 | Be for You | The Things I Never Told You | mixing, mastering |
| 2019 | Find Me | Angels in Blue | songwriting on tracks 9, 10 and 11 |
| 2020 | Revolution Saints | Rise | producer, recording, mixing, mastering, songwriting, keyboards, backing vocals |
| 2020 | Black Swan | Shake the World | mixing, mastering |
| 2020 | Dirty Shirley | Dirty Shirley | producer, mixing, mastering |
| 2020 | Michael Thompson Band | High Times: Live in Italy | producer, mixing, mastering |
| 2020 | Archon Angel | Fallen | songwriting on tracks 4 and 9 |
| 2020 | Alessandro Del Vecchio | Sound from the Notebook | songwriting, producing, recording, mixing. mastering, all instruments, vocals |
| 2022 | Star One | Revel in Time | lead vocals and keyboard solo on "The Year of '41 " |
| 2022 | Zadra | Guiding Star | producer, bass, keyboards, backing vocals, additional rhythm guitars on "Won't Let Your Love Take Me Down" |
| 2022 | Docker's Guild | The Mystic Technocracy - Season 2: The Age of Entropy | mixing, mastering on "S.O.S. Spazio 1999" |
| 2023 | Cassidy Paris | New Sensation | production, bass, guitar, keyboards, backing vocals |