1. Pierangelo Gonella is an Italian guitarist, composer and producer, most known in the metal genre as founding member of the heavy metal bands Mastercastle, guitar player of the band Necrodeath, past member of the band Labyrinth, producer of many solo projects.
Pier Gonella began playing guitar at the age of 15.
From 1993 to 1997 Gonella studied guitar in many Italian schools.
Pier Gonella studied music theory and, in June 1998, received the diploma of "Teoria and Solfeggio" at the Conservatory of Music "Nicolo' Paganini" of Genoa.
Pier Gonella joined the band Necrodeath for the first time in 2006 as a guest guitarist.
In 2007, Pier Gonella recorded the guitars work on the album Draculea.
Pier Gonella left the band because he was busy with his other bands.
Pier Gonella recorded the albums Phylogenesis in 2009, Old Skull in 2010, The age of Fear in 2011, Idiosyncrasy in 2012, The 7 deadly sins in 2014.
Many webzine's from all over the world gave Mastercastle and their albums very good reviews and Pier Gonella received really good reviews as a producer of the albums.
In 2001 Pier Gonella recorded the guitars for the album Athlantis and in 2003 he recorded the guitar and bass part for the album Wild Steel.
In 2006 Pier Gonella appears as guest in the project Rezophonic, recording guitars for one song.
In 1998 Pier Gonella started teaching guitar lessons, working in many private schools and creating guitar clinics in the north of Italy.
On 2002 Pier Gonella joined the hystorical Italian metal band Vanexa.
Pier Gonella is known for his YouTube channel Pier Gonella Jam, which features one of the largest and most popular collections of original "jam tracks" and backing tracks on the internet, and his original music, videoclips, improvisations, tour vlogs and notable bands projects as Mastercastle, Necrodeath.
Thanks to the extensive production of songs and backing tracks, in December 2023 Pier Gonella entered the Guinness World Records for The Most Studio Album Digitally Released.
Pier Gonella released 122 album with artist name "Pier Gonella Jam" and he stated that he has recorded over 300 including all his bands and projects.