Davide Totaro (born 12 September 1978
), known professionally as Set Teitan or Sethlans Teitan, is an Italian guitarist based in Sweden.
He was the guitarist of
industrial black metal
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band
Aborym from 1997 to 2005, lead guitarist for Bloodline from 2000 to 2005, as well as the second guitarist of the Swedish
black
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/
melodic death metal
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band
Dissection
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.
From 2005 to 2018, he performed as lead guitarist for
Watain, but in 2018, he stepped away from the band after a photograph surfaced of him giving the
Nazi salute
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. He has also performed on
Arckanum
Arckanum was a Swedish black metal solo band formed in 1993 by Johan "Shamaatae" Lahger, who was the only constant member. Arckanum ranks among the most influential and popular in the Swedish black metal scene.
Shamaatae is also an author of ...
's albums ''Antikosmos'' and ''ÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞ''.
[Christian Heckmann]
''Arckanum''
26. June 2009, accessed on 26 April 2013.
References
Black metal musicians
Living people
1978 births
Italian emigrants to Sweden
Italian guitarists
Italian male guitarists
Death metal musicians
21st-century guitarists
21st-century Italian male musicians
Aborym members
Dissection (band) members
Watain
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