Aydra

Italy's Aydra performs ultra-complicated, convention-defying death-jazz in the mode of Florida's Atheist, and features vocalist/bassist Mauro Pacetti, guitarists Francesco Olivi and Marcello Lammoglia, and drummer Nicola Raffaeli. Although formed as early as the mid-'90s (their first EP, Psycho Pain Control, came out in 1996), Aydra's debut album, Icon of Sin, only surfaced in 2001. ~ Eduardo Rivadavia