10 Questions With Bekruud

In this week’s 10 Questions we get to know Bekruud, a composer and indie artist from Rome, Italy.

Their song ‘Altisuono in Vibro‘ is currently featured on the NAS Spotify playlists

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1. Tell us a little about where you are from.

I live in Rome, I am an electronic engineer and my passion has always been classical and metal music. I’m also an average chess player. I’m catholic in love with human mankind.

2. What inspired Bekruud to start playing and making music?

I studied classical guitar when I was a child, growing up I discovered metal and I started playing electric guitar. Metallica played a great role in that. Then I started making my own music in 2023 and I’ve released 2 singles and 2 albums so far. In 3 tracks you can find a female voice too, it’s my daughter Rebecca.

Then I started making my own music in 2023 and I’ve released 2 singles and 2 albums so far.

3. Who are Bekruud’s biggest musical influences?

My biggest influence in metal music comes from Metallica and Jason Becker (this last is also part of my artist name). In classical music I’ve got influenced mostly by Mozart and Rachmaninoff.

4. What are your goals in the music industry or as an artist?

I would like to let people know my music, all the incomes of my music are devolved for charity since the beginning.

5. Tell us about your creative process.

My music comes to life by herself. I feel often to be a mere interpreter of what already is alive in my mind.

6. What is your all-time favorite song by another artist and why?

It is really hard to find only one favourite song. If I must say I would choose Blackened by Metallica. Its powerful riff always puts me in an euphoric state.

If I must say I would choose Blackened by Metallica.

7. What is the best advice you have either given or received in terms of music?

Play what you like and not what you are supposed to play. When you don’t find the force within to compose and play what you really are your art becomes suddenly empty.

8. What is your proudest accomplishment?

I am very proud of my releases. To have finally become a composer and an artist over the Internet is a dream I am treasuring since I was a teenager. I’ve also have received some appreciations from independent critics and artists and this makes me feel I’m doing a good job.

To have finally become a composer and an artist over the Internet is a dream I am treasuring since I was a teenager.

9. What’s been your most embarrassing moment so far?

A good friend asked me with very little notice to join him on the stage to play something together and I really wasn’t prepared for that. I couldn’t decline the invitation so I got to do my best in the hope it was enough.

10. Tell us about your lowest and highest points in music so far.

A difficult moment was at the very beginning when no one seemed to be aware that I published my first track and I’ve had the temptation to stop it there. A good satisfaction I got when a well known guitarist over YouTube wrote to me about one of my pieces.