SAWTHIS was born in 97 under the first monicker Anestesia. The band records its first demo-CD in ‘98, simply called Demon 98. In ‘99 the band changes his monicker in Sothis and records a seven track cd called The Seven Lies. The Seven Lies gets very good responses from the national metal audience and from all the Italian mag/fan/web-zines .
In ‘01 Sothis self produces their third official demo cd Instinct. Instinct receives an excellent feedback from the whole metal audience and from quite every mag/web/fan-zine. In order to promote the last work Instinct, Sothis starts an intense live activity that goes increasing even more, taking place in several national festivals and supporting great bands such as Lacuna Coil, Entombed, Impaled Nazarene, Konkhra, Shaman, Death SS, Eldritch, Theatres Des Vampires, Undertakers, Natron, Centurion, etc..
In ‘03 Sothis signs a record deal with the italian Temple of Noise Records and in april ‘06 records their debut album Fusion, out in Italy with Edel Distribution and in Europe with Hardebaran Distribution. The band promotes the album playing a lot of gigs and some of them with big names as Destruction, Anathema, Sadist, Vader, Necrodeath, Impaled Nazarene, Assassin...
In '07 the band starts to preproduce the new album with Paolo Ojetti (Infernal Poetry) as producer. In summer '08 Franko leaves the band and Alessandro became the new singer.
In '09, during the Egod recording sessions, after 12 years, the band has been forced to change name. The new monicker will be SAWTHIS.
grazie a voi x aver accettato la richiesta!! siete grandi ragazzi!! sono rimasto affascinato dal vostro stile in un live a bari al target! continuate così siete grandi!! spero che torniate a bari un giorno!! W