Marco Pesenti, best known as Peso, was born 20 January, 1965 in Milano, Italy. He started playing drums at age fourteen, in a school band and joined thrashmetal outfit Necrodeath at age nineteen. Peso played in Sadist between 1991 and 1996. He was followed up by a drummer named Ignazio de Caro. Since 2002 Peso has collaborated in another project, Raza de Odio. Currently he plays with both Raza de Odio and Necrodeath.



Pesenti names Dave Lombardo, John Bonham, Simon Phillips and Ignazio de Caro as musical influences.



Marco Pesenti teaches drums at a school of music in Genova, Italy. He did more then 450 gigs all around Europe, and has about ten international CD productions on his name. Pesenti is featured on every release by Necrodeath, Sadist and Raza de Odio.



Pesenti does not use a lot of equipment to create his impressive sound. His drum kit is rather small. Pesenti:

"I use a kit with one bassdrum, one snare, one tom and one octoban. A couple of crash cymbals, one ride and one hhi hat. I know it's small but I'm told that I make noise enough hahaha..."

Asked about his drumming, Pesenti explains:

" I can tell you that I've tried to mix my thrash experience with tribal stuff."

Pesenti is very satisfied: a compilation of his band Necrodeath is about to be released, fesaturing songs from 20 years of activity. Pesenti:

"There are songs from every album and demo, plus one cover bonus track: 'Black Sabbath' from Black Sabbath. I tried to rearrange the drum parts, in particular I have worked on a different way of triplets..."

Pesenti admits to still learn every day. Asked for his future plans, he reveils:

"We are going to do a European tour with Necrodeath. In the summer we plan some great festivals, in the mean time we are working on new material."