Francesco Claudio "Xan" Marai, aka Hunterwolf is an Italian musician, dj and composer.

He was born on February 17, 1988. Passionate about music from an early age he started playing the piano when he was 4 years old and one year later he began taking lessons regularly.

Shortly after he composes his first simple melodies (many of them created before the lessons), and he plays them to small essays organized by the school. Because of his musical talent he will be the music teacher's pupil until 11 years old, when he met the new teacher of flute (an instrument with which he has never been familiar). They will not have a great relationship and so he decide to follow its own path by himself.

He developed a passion for electronic music and rock music (he had always shown interest in progressive music, trance music, and heavy metal, genres popular to himself thanks to his parents, who had a record store).

He runs a more experimental sound, sophisticated and eclectic, until he discovers the hardcore music that fascinates him immediately. However, he discovers the passion for deejaing long after he created many songs (mostly techno, trance, goa, tekno, progressive, electrofunk) and having played in several underground rock bands as keyboardist and singer (mostly in a melodic death metal band called Hatereapers well as working with a punk and new wave one called Mastermind).

Regiamania staff discovered him at the age of 17, and then he plays for the first time in a disco: Dorian Gray @ Adrenaline - Reggio Emilia (14/01/06) - "The Prophet Party".

Since then he continues to play Hardcore at many events, and soon in some of the most important events of this genre (Dorian Gray, Masters of Hardcore, We Love Hard, E-Mission, Evolution Planet, Il Fuoriorario, Shock!, Explosion, In*To*Nation and others).

Music is the purest implementation of feelings. Hunterwolf style has always been characterized by experimentation and the fusion of several genres, his particularly dark vocals are often produced by himself and his tracks look "expressionistic", because a song must be able to convey a feeling and an emotion, not necessarily through the use of words but specially through the use of sounds.

His style becomes ever more experimental and eclectic, to the almost total inability to be scored with a precise genre: the main influences are hardcore, IDM, industrial, metal, blues, celtic music and classical music.

Despite its unusual music always manages to please the audience for which it must perform: see real hits as "Gabba Power" (2006), and sometimes getting the approval of international hardcore's Big ones with tracks like "Look Into These Eyes" (2008).

Towards the end of 2009 he can set his style in a mixture of extreme rock and electronics, finally abandoning the categories of music genres into something more complete and mature. After that Hunterwolf decides to create his musical project "Paranoiax" and in 2010 he released his first album, which comes as an interlude between the past and the future: it still has songs categorized in a genre, even if with many influences from different styles. These are nine songs composed between 2006 and 2009, including "Industrialization" (2006), the title track of the collection, one of the first frenchcore songs presenting a melodic part. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.