'Marco Ferrarese: from the land of RAW POWER and INDIGESTI he comes, like a Herman Melville of the international fanzine cum-web page nation'
David Ensminger, author and punk historian
MARCO FERRARESE has been a 'professional' underground metal punk guitar slinger between 1994 and 2007, and a rabid fan well before he had hair on his arms and chest.
Since discovering metal and punk in his teens, he hit the most famous and infamous stages across Europe and the United States - mostly touring with The Nerds, or as impresario and roadie for bands the calibre of ANTiSEEN, Cocknoose, Bible of the Devil, Slough Feg, Zeke, Kill Allen Wrench, Orange Goblin, Cripple Bastards, Weedeater, The Hookers/Blade of the Ripper, Manilla Road and countless others.
After The Nerds disbanded in 2007, Marco travelled the world extensively and lived in Italy, the United States, China, Australia and Malaysia. Since 2009 he's been based in Southeast Asia as a writer, musician and researcher.
He has written about travel, culture and extreme music in Asia in many international publications, most notably: Travel + Leisure Southeast Asia, Time Out, CNN Travel, Korean Airways' Morning Calm, JetStar Asia, Singapore Airways' SilverKris, Roads and Kingdoms, Bangkok101, Southeast Asia Globe, Perceptive Travel, Penang Monthly and Rolf Pott's Vagabonding.
Marco's first pulp novel Nazi Goreng (Monsoon Books, 2013) explores the underbelly of Malaysian international drug trade and displaced youth. A bestseller in Malaysia, it was translated into Malay by DuBook Press in June 2015. Marco short ... See more
'Marco Ferrarese: from the land of RAW POWER and INDIGESTI he comes, like a Herman Melville of the international fanzine cum-web page nation'
David Ensminger, author and punk historian
MARCO FERRARESE has been a 'professional' underground metal punk guitar slinger between 1994 and 2007, and a rabid fan well before he had hair on his arms and chest.
Since discovering metal and punk in his teens, he hit the most famous and infamous stages across Europe and the United States - mostly touring with The Nerds, or as impresario and roadie for bands the calibre of ANTiSEEN, Cocknoose, Bible of the Devil, Slough Feg, Zeke, Kill Allen Wrench, Orange Goblin, Cripple Bastards, Weedeater, The Hookers/Blade of the Ripper, Manilla Road and countless others.
After The Nerds disbanded in 2007, Marco travelled the world extensively and lived in Italy, the United States, China, Australia and Malaysia. Since 2009 he's been based in Southeast Asia as a writer, musician and researcher.
He has written about travel, culture and extreme music in Asia in many international publications, most notably: Travel + Leisure Southeast Asia, Time Out, CNN Travel, Korean Airways' Morning Calm, JetStar Asia, Singapore Airways' SilverKris, Roads and Kingdoms, Bangkok101, Southeast Asia Globe, Perceptive Travel, Penang Monthly and Rolf Pott's Vagabonding.
Marco's first pulp novel Nazi Goreng (Monsoon Books, 2013) explores the underbelly of Malaysian international drug trade and displaced youth. A bestseller in Malaysia, it was translated into Malay by DuBook Press in June 2015. Marco short stories are featured in anthologies KL Noir Blue and Lost in Putrajaya (Fixi, 2014).
As a metalpunkthropologist he contributed academic articles on metal, ethnicity and identity in Malaysia to Metal Music Studies and International Journal of Community Music. He's currently the Southeast Asia-based member of the International Society for Metal Music Studies.
