Skonnie Music: Symphonic Power Metal Band

Epic Music. Original Vision. Skonnie Music

Connie Yerbic – Vocalist, Flutist, ASCAP, Lyricist/Songwriter, Co-Founder

Sal Moretta – Guitarist, Composer, Keyboardist, Co-Founder

Skonnie Music is a symphonic power metal band and independent music company based in San Francisco, founded in 2016 by vocalist and flutist Connie Yerbic and guitarist Sal Moretta. Blending rich orchestral arrangements, soaring vocals, the rare voice of the flute, and neoclassical guitar, Skonnie Music fuses the power of metal with the depth of symphonic composition. The band records at acclaimed European studios – including Massive Arts Studios in Milan and Fascination Street Studios in Sweden – and performs across Europe and the USA.

“At Skonnie Music, we believe music has the power and potential to positively impact others. Music is the universal language we all speak.” Connie Yerbic, Skonnie Music

New Album – Nuraghe by Skonnie Music

Nuraghe is Skonnie Music’s new full-length album: fifteen all-original symphonic power metal songs, composed note by note over several years. The album takes its name from the nuraghi – the ancient, mysterious stone structures found only in Sardinia. Weaving together stories, legends, mysteries, and memories gathered from the band’s travels across Europe and the USA, Nuraghe pairs haunting lyrics and rich orchestral melodies with blistering guitar solos.

Nuraghe: Something ancient is rising.

The Symphonic Power Metal Band

Connie Yerbic – Vocals, Flute, Lyrics

Classically trained, Connie studied flute from childhood while living and traveling throughout the world, trained in Salzburg, Austria under a master flutist, and continued her journey worldwide. An ASCAP songwriter with studio albums to her name, she has worked hands-on with world-class engineers in European studios – shaping full productions, not just her own parts – and brings expressive vocals, imaginative lyrics, and the rare voice of the flute into the world of metal.

Sal Moretta – Guitars, Composition

A neoclassical guitarist in the lineage of Yngwie Malmsteen, Paul Gilbert, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, and John Petrucci, Sal is a composer with three studio albums whose virtuosic solos and melodic sensibility define the Skonnie Music sound.

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Connie Yerbic and Sal Moretta have professional recording studio and album experience, including working together on the creation and recording of their band’s VEVO channel, and recording albums in professional recording studios. Previous projects include recording with Alberto Cutolo and Jack Garufi in Italy’s Massive Arts Studios (30 Seconds to Mars, Lacuna Coil.) and another album recorded by Johan Örnborg (Orphaned Land, James LeBrie) and Jens Bogren, (Arch Enemy, At the Gates, James LeBrie) in Sweden’s Fascination Street Studios.

Amptopia Amps™ – The Sound Behind the Songs by Symphonic Power Metal Band Skonnie Music

Amptopia Amps™ is Skonnie Music’s own digital amp simulator, a software plugin created by Connie and Sal and used in-house to craft every guitar tone on Nuraghe. Featuring dual-cabinet IR loading, virtual mic placement, and full effects pedalboards, it’s how the Skonnie Music guitar sound is made. Public release is coming.

Recognition

Most Innovative Symphonic Metal Band 2026 – LUXlife Magazine

The judging panel selected the band for its “exceptional creativity, unique sound, and impactful contributions to the symphonic metal genre.“

~ Luxlife Magazine Panel, 2026

The judging panel selected the band for its “exceptional creativity, unique sound, and impactful contributions to the symphonic metal genre.”

Metal Artist of the Year 2025 – Business Circle Magazine, San Francisco

Most Visionary Symphonic Metal Band (USA) 2025 – LUXlife Entertainment Excellence Award

“Skonnie Music actively composes music to inspire, enrich, and touch anyone with challenges or neurological medical needs, as we seek to inspire our wonderful fans and music lovers everywhere.”

~ Connie Yerbic, Skonnie Music

“Blue Eyes and a Smile. Just wow. Beautiful composition. Very well put together, very well harmonized, energetic and just all around badass! Thanks for the ear candy!” 

~ Harvest the People

Skonnie Music is the perfect meeting of two musicians of diverse cultures and interests who enjoy a mutual love for amazing music, exhilarating guitar solos, powerful metal riffs, rich symphonic passages, and
 haunting melodies.