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By Bridget Arnwine Making a play on the phrase “drop dead” are Atti and Ardog of Drop Alive, a hard-rocking high-octane duo from Pavia, Italy, a city that coincidentally was once occupied by the Goths. Atti and Ardog met in 2004 as employees of the same supermarket. “One day I was about to walk home when I heard Sepultura’s ‘Beneath the Remains’ being blasted out of a car stereo,” Atti recalled. “It was Ardog, and that was enough of a good reason to ask for a lift home, you know, just to listen to the music!” They began playing together in 2006, and by early 2007 the...