[1] In 2008 he founded, with his longtime friend Amos Monti, an AOR all-star project called Shining Line,[2] that was officially released in 2010 by German label Avenue Of Allies Music, receiving acclaim from fans and critics.
[7] In the same year he started working together with his bandmate in Shining Line Amos Monti on a new AOR project called Charming Grace, involving in it their label mate Davide Barbieri (of Wheels Of Fire fame) as third official main member.
Year 2014 sees the official announcement of a brand new melodic rock project called Room Experience (led by Italian songwriter Gianluca Firmo and fronted by Pink Cream 69 / Voodoo Circle's singer David Readman ), with Monti involved in the roles of co-producer and drummer.
[16] On the songwriting side, he provided his contribution to the come-back of ex-Vanilla Ninja Lenna Kuurmaa under the moniker "Moonland", penning the song "Over Me" in collaboration with Davide Barbieri and Alessandro Del Vecchio.
Harry Hess on Vocals), with Monti appearing in the songwriting credits thanks to the song "Love Gets Through" (written in collaboration with Davide Barbieri and Dave Zublena), launched as first single on YouTube in a lyric-video format.
[24] Again in 2016 Monti signed a deal with Street Symphonies Records for the official reissue of Shining Line's debut album, which includes in this new edition an exclusive bonus track called "This Is Our Life" previously unreleased.