Name: Claudio Carrasco García
Instrument: None (vocals)
Birth: November, 7. 1974
Joined Poema Arcanvs in: 1991 (founder member)
Other bands you’ve played in: not serious: Mugre, Foetal Maceration and currently Shiteater.
Reason to choose your instrument: I liked to do noises and monster grunts with my voice and I sang in some school choirs.
Influences: Barney Greenway (Benediction, Napalm Death), Troy Dixler (Sindrome), Carl Mc Coy (The Fields of the Nephilim), Messiah (Candlemass), Lee Dorrian (Cathedral, Napalm Death), Bass singers worldwide.
Favourite band: Napalm Death, Carcass, Autopsy, My Dying Bride, Candlemass, Voïvod, Gore Beyond Necropsy and thousands more.
Favourite album: “The Peel Sessions” (ep) from Napalm Death
Favourite movie: “Tout les Matins du Monde”
Favourite book: “Perfume”, by Patrick Suskind
Current Equipment: Shure SM-58 mic, Soundtech powered mixer and 2 Yamaha Speaker Cabinets.
Name: Igor Leiva Benavides
Instrument: Guitar
Birth: January, 17. 1975
Joined Poema Arcanvs in: 1991 (founder member)
Other bands you’ve played in: Some old and not-serious-at-all projects like Mugre and Nonoxynol-9; Atomic Noise Machine and Septicemia. Nowadays I play in MDM, with Matias from Nuclear.
Reason to choose your instrument: I didn’t have the money to buy a drumkit back then, so I picked my brother’s guitar. I had no choice, I guess.
Influences: Voïvod, Carcass, My Dying Bride, In the Woods, Nevermore, Candlemass, Rush, Zbigniew Preisner, Napalm Death, Mar de Grises, King Crimson, Queensryche, Heart, Tori Amos, Fields of the Nephilim, Kreator, Destruction and lots more.
Favourite band: Voïvod
Favourite album: Dimension Hatröss -Voïvod
Favourite movie: “La Double Vie de Veronique”
Favourite book: “Rayuela”, by Julio Cortázar
Current Equipment: C.R.A. "Chaosmonger" 120W custom made tube amplifier; modified Marshall 4x12” cabinet; Peavey Rockmaster tube preamp; ENGL E530 tube preamp; ESP Horizon Guitar with Seymour Duncan JB Pickups; ESP Eclipse STBC Guitar with Seymour Duncan Alternative 8 & Pearly Gates Pickups, Old Jackson JDR94 guitar (backup) with an EMG 81 & 60 pickups; GHS Strings (0.11 gauge); a “do it yourself” pedalboard full of stuff; Tortex .88 mm picks and my E-Bow.
Name: Luis E. Moya D.
Instrument: Drums
Birth: January 22nd, 1974
Joined Poema Arcanvs in: Year 2000
Other bands you’ve played in: Underneath, Aseidad, Golgotha (Chile) and some other projects as a session drummer.
Reason to choose your instrument: When I was 6 or 7, I wanted to play music so I started studying some basic keyboards and guitar. It was ok to me but I quit early because I always ended up hitting something anyway... improvised drumkits or just did air drumming the whole time along with songs. At that time I was also shocked when I saw Alex Van Halen performing live on TV surrounded by a tremendous drumkit! ...so I started self taught.
Influences: Neil Peart, Mikkey Dee, Alex Van Halen, Gene Hoglan, Pete Sandoval, Ian Mosley, Gabriel Parra, Terry Bozzio, Buddy Rich, Dave Lombardo, etc, etc, etc...
Favourite band: Mercyful Fate
Favourite album: Them (King Diamond)
Favourite movie: Airplane!
Favourite book: Wie Funktioniert Das?
Current Equipment: Pearl Drums and Hardware; Paiste Cymbals; Remo Drumheads; Vater Firth Drumsticks.
Name: Juan Pablo Vallejos Rojas (Hueso)
Instrument: Bass guitar
Birth: May 29, 1981
Joined Poema Arcanvs in: August 2006
Other bands you’ve played in: Loco Insane, Heretics, Ashes, Trimegisto, I.D.N.
Reason to choose your instrument: When I was a kid I always listened to comments such as “Bass isn’t even heard, the bass player is the worst musician in a band, bassists are the lamest performers, anybody can play bass”. With the intention to revert those sentences more with facts than with words, I asked my older sister to buy me a bass not even knowing that it was needed an amp for the instrument to sound. I didn’t have a better idea than plugging the bass into my home’s stereo back then (a Samsung model Vip 500). WOW! The bass sounded and distorted. Not even being able to play a single note, I spent whole afternoons mimicking Jerry Only and Jason Newsted, until some friend came with a cassette of The Exploited. It was time for learning to make the bass sound.
Influences: The Exploited, Misfits, Jean-Yves Theriault (Blacky), Jason Newsted, Mike Inez, Danzig, Type O’ Negative, Terrorizer, S.O.D., Anthrax
Favourite album: “Nothingface” - Voivod
Favourite movie: Saving Private Ryan
Favourite book: I’m a very bad reader … with luck I read the headlining on the newspapers that hang in the kiosk at the corner of the street.
Current Equipment: Amp Heads: Ampeg SVT4PRO and SVT3PRO, Cabs: Ampeg SVT810 and SVT410HLF, Spector Legend IV Custom Bass (See-thru Red); Spector Legend IV Custom Bass (See-thru Blue); Marshall JH1 “Jackhammer” Pedal; Elixir Strings.