"Demetrio "Dimitry" Scopelliti was born in Vercelli, Italy on February 23, 1980.
He started playing the guitar at the age of 13 and after a couple of years of practice he founded the group Arcadia (Progressive Metalcore); with this band he toured the entire world in the following 20 years.
After graduating at the European Music College in Milan, Italy, he released his first album "Evolution" in 2008, "Codex Magika" in 2012, the full length album "The Art of Complications" in 2016, "The Silent Watcher" in 2018 plus several other records under different names and music shapes.
In 2020 during the lockdown months he locked himself in the studio writing and recording " V ", his 5th studio album. Since it was very difficult to get a hold of people in that period Demetrio decided to record all the instruments by himself which gave him the opportunity to work out the album exactly as it sounded in his head.
He's currently endorsed by these companies: Hotone Audio (pedals), Lundgren Pickups, Chicken Picks, Mercuriall Audio, Two Notes Audio Engineering.
Previous endorsements: Randall Amps, Peavey Electronics, Morley Pedals, Legator Guitars.
Demetrio started his own guitar company called "Inspiria Guitars" and presented his instruments at "The Namm Show" 2022, 2023, 2024; Guitar Summit 2023 and 2024 and Music China 2023 and 2024.
His previous signature 8 string guitar model has been already presented at Namm 2020 by the Chinese company "Sunsmile Guitars" but Dimitry decided to bring the whole thing to a completely new level founding his own brand.
Beside composing, producing and touring the world, Dimitry is a guitar, bass & drums instructor in different schools in Norway where he lives nowadays and an online music personality on YouTube and on all the main social media.
He has been a guitar player for the Italian prog metal band Dammercide who released their second album "The Seed" in 2020, he then quitted the band in September 2022.
In 2022 he was recruited to represent Norway at the Wcopa, "World Championship of performing arts", which took place in Hollywood, Ca in July 2022 where he got 3 silver medals in 3 categories he was competing for (Original Works, Contemporary Instrumental Music, Open). He was competing with an edit version of the following tunes: Devil You Know (from " V "), Immortal Portrait and SL8 (from "The Art of Complications").
In the summer of 2023 he toured the US supporting his latest released album « V ».
During the break from touring he had the honor to record the guitars of the upcoming Ingrid Digre's album together with the legendary world class musicians Greg and Matt Bissonette on drums and bass and Grammy Awarded Producer Jeff Weber".
Dimitry played on the main stage at Namm 2023 (April) and 2024 (January) with the French Virtuoso Violinist "Laurent Bernadac".
Dimitry released the first full length album "Infinity" of the duo with Aina Davidsen, Norwegian classical saxophone player on September 2nd (through FusionCore Records) and is currently working hard on his 6th solo album which will be released by the summer of 2025.