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Name : Aurélien GATHELOT
Birthdate : 18 / 07 / 1978
Instrument : Rhythm Guitar

Born in Saint-Ouen near Paris, Aurélien got the taste for rock from his father. As many young people, while searching a bit at home, he finds records of Dire Straits and Genesis that will be his first steps outside the path of french songs and Top 50. With Toto, these three bands are his first rock influences and the first marking guitar sounds.

During teenage years, Aurélien discovers hard-rock with Guns N' Roses and then Metallica, Iron Maiden and Megadeth, the main actors at that time. But our friend doesn't listen only to hard-rock and heavy-metal and his musical culture goes to other levels with Noir Désir or The Black Crowes. The actual revelation comes with old bands such as Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and Yes. At that time he buys his first guitar and gives his first shots with Metallica background music.

High school being over, here comes the engineer school and its first bands. The very first one will be Amiante, who covers rock bands like Noir Désir, Muse, Radiohead... The line-up will remain stable for five years, allowing Aurélien to perform his first shows. Meanwhile, Aurélien's musical influences continue to diversify with bands such as Dream Theater, Lofofora or Incubus. In parallel, with other friends, he sets up Lusabele and Dawn, two other bands almost similar that cover more aggresive songs influenced by Pantera, Slayer or Covenant.

Once in the world of work as an ingeneer, Aurélien meets NiCo at the office and they begin to play together quickly with the band Black Stripe, a parisian hard-rock band. During one year they're going to work the songs of the compositor, Ben, attend a few shows and finally record a demo that will never see daylight. After this period, Nico, G and Aurélien feel more and more the need to perform real Metal and in the end they decide to quit the band to create Eleventh Plague.

Aurélien's hardware :

- Guitar Jackson DR-3
- Guitar Fender Stratocaster US standard
- Guitar Willow's Bent Top Special
- Amplifier B-52 AT-100
- Amplifier Laney LC-50
- Line 6 Pod XT
- Footswitch Behringer FCB1010
- Wah-wah Dunlop Cry Baby
- Chorus Boss CE-5