As a matter of fact the band's logo, characterized by a strong green colour, resembles a Ligurian basil leaf, which is the most important ingredient for Pesto.
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The name of the group is an Italian way to describe something very dark, but at the same time the word pesto can also refer to the typical Ligurian pasta sauce, the Pesto.
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Their second album, Cosmolandia, was released in 1998, with more than 3,000 copies sold, and contains an unedited song Cosmolandia, sung by Franco Malerba, the first Italian astronaut in space for the NASA in 1992 with the Space Shuttle Atlantis STS-46.