ONELEGMAN was born in 2003 in the underground music scene of Reggio Emilia, Italy. The first 2007 Demo is welcomed by the Italian specialized press as the best self-produced EP of the year. In 2011 begins their collaboration which is still standing with Dysfunction Production, an italian team of producers who worked with Dino Cazares (Fear Factory), Tue Madsen (Meshuggah), Logan Mader (Machine Head) and Dan Korneff (Paramore), Bjorn Strid (Soilwork) among the others. That’s how the first official album “The Crack” was born and released in USA, UK, Germany and Italy.

In 2015 they released “DO YOU REALLY THINK THIS WORLD WAS MADE FOR YOU?”. This new release is a more rock-oriented, dynamic, orchestral album. “DO YOU REALLY THINK...” is a concept album about people experiencing, living and interpreting the theme of change through a tragedy which will leave a mark on their lives forever. Dedicated to those affected by the earthquakes which struck Emilia-Romagna region, Northern Italy, in May 2012.

The album was welcomed with enthusiastic reviews from Italy, USA, UK, Canada and Japan. The band performed live in all the major Italian cities supporting bands like HATEBREED, WOLFMOTHER and LACUNA COIL among all the others. At the end of 2019 the band was back in studio to create their third album, “Event Horizon”.

It’s been written about the band:

“An incredible band”
“Rare goods nowadays”
“No other band plays like onelegman”
“Something never heard like this in italy”
“Hard, straight, sharp and original”
“Great musical blend”
“All sorts of contaminations”
“Completely unpredictable”
“An adrenaline’s shot”
“Musical arrangements that leaves breathless”
“Musical skills and courage”

EVENT HORIZON, the third new album.

OneLegMan’s most peculiar characteristic is to follow a new concept for each one of their work; to create a mosaic with sounds, lyrics and graphics in order to show to the listener the direction of their journey. This is how we meant our music, a journey. And this intention was never stronger than on this third album. We have aimed high but not necessarily far, in the human intimate, sometimes in the unconscious, exploring the universe to the limit of possible knowledge and consciousness, the Event Horizon, precisely EVENT HORIZON as the title of the album. The research for new worlds, the chaos theory, the last days of a star's life, the direction of time, entropy, the fourth dimension that is gravity, love as an elementary form of existence, existence as mere force of attraction and repulsion between electrons, existence as creatures of God or as sons of physics and chemistry.

It is not our intention to translate the works of scientists such as Greene, Rovelli, Bertone, Hawking, Jim Al-Khalili and Primo Levi (“il sistema periodico” is a great book from him) into music, but to take inspiration from their treatises, terminologies and thoughts to build cosmic and quantum images where searching for the true human essence, where perhaps life is born.

Two songs are very significant for us in addition to the title track to perfectly understand the spirit and meaning of the whole album, Magnetar and Radiate; songs that rapresent what OneLegMan’s music was, is and probably will be. Magnetar is the element of continuity with the previous album, Radiate a courageous gaze on a future to be discovered.

MAGNETAR

MAGNETAR, i.e. magnetic star. Magnetars are neutron stars with a huge magnetic field, millions of billions of times more intense than Earth's, but above all they are "the alternative to BLACK HOLES". When a massive star collapses under its own gravity during a supernova explosion, it forms a neutron star or a black hole. Recently a Magnetar was discovered born from the explosive death of a star 40 times larger than the Sun; scientifically impossible event because such a mass would have had to generate a black hole. The hypothesis is that the Magnetar was formed due to two massive stars orbiting each other. In simple words, it was saved thanks to a companion star. This opens up to extraordinary scenarios and theories but we have decided to use this story, to romance it, to mix sacred to profanity, soul to science and to write a song about this, where man is a star and the stars are men.

The song is strong, powerful and psychedelic. The guitars riff is solid and stubborn. The harmonies in the verses are suspended, ethereal. From time to time the song changes shape, empties and returns with new instruments until it explodes in the orchestral chorus of the refrain.

For a bonus track version of Magnetar we thought of a prestigious collaboration by contacting the “RED ARMY CHOIR” in the person of General Elisev, who said he was interested and available, contacts and planning (we will have to go to Moscow) will resume at the end of the emergency Covid-19.

RADIATE

RADIATE was inspired by “Passengers”, an american science fiction movie, directed by Morten Tyldum in 2016. In the movie a couple of space travellers is forced to live their whole existences in complete solitude, dedicating themselves to building their relationship and safeguarding the supreme good of life.

The spatial setting of PASSENGERS seem to be located somewhere in a place where time has made its turn and the future is a return to the Adamite couple, revealing a new hope in the superiority of the “organic”, however fragile and deadly, over whatever is inanimate.

We already planned to record a new video for RADIATE, completely scipted and ready to be realised.