Max Cottica is not new to writing. He worked with Italian heavy metal magazines for years and had reviews, articles, interviews and his own centrefold published on H/M and Metal Hammer. He humbly started with his own fanzines (SBM, Shout and Undershout) to then upgrade to the national mainstream. He has extensive experience in the heavy metal scene and funnily enough in data and analytics. In the 26 years he has spent in Ireland he made a name for himself in that branch of I.T. with a steady progressing career that started as a data engineer and ended up heading big practices and even play as a Chief Information Officer. Dedicated family man, he has a lot of hobbies beside music, one of them being an avid collector of Silver Age Marvel comics and action figures. In that space he is known as the Irish Spawn.