Formed by the two young guitarists Alessio Garavello and Fabio Cavallaro during May 1996, the thrash metal band called Deluge started to perform some of the most famous bay-area thrash metal hits of the 80 written by Metallica and Megadeth. Between 1996 and 2002 the band line-up has changed many times trying to reach the perfect alchemy and during the summer of 2002 the italian thrash metal band GROUND CONTROL was finally formed.