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Ninezero Background information Birth name Craig Andrew Schweizer Born 18 October Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Genres Heavy metal, hard rock Occupations Vocalist, Songwriter Instruments Vocal Years active 1989 - Present Associated acts Maziora The Band, Ninezero & Raiden Website Official website Notable instruments Shure SM58 Ninezero (born Craig Andrew Schweizer, 18 October) is an Australian rock/metal singer, songwriter and musician. He is influenced by heavy metal and hard rock to create a new kind of sound, referred to as power cacophony metal.[1] Born in Sydney, Australia. He currently resides in Tokyo, Japan.
Ninezero started his singing career singing in his high school choir and in classic musicals, such as The King and I, Oklahoma! and Kiss Me, Kate at the Riverside Theatre Parramatta. He moved onto singing in rock and heavy metal bands after graduating from the University of Newcastle, Australia.
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Bands
Maziora The Band (2010-)
Ninezero joined forces with some of Japan's most famous musicians to form Maziora The Band. The line-up is Ninezero-Vocals, Kentaro-Guitar (Gargoyle), Yoshito Onda-Bass (Zamza, ex.Judy and Mary, Presence) and Himawari-Drums (Dustar-3, ex.Sex Machineguns).[2]
Solo (2007-)
His solo career as Ninezero, adopting his own name as the band's name, began with 2008's album The Beginning. This album was followed up with Ninezero's first debut CD Sanity released in 2009. Ninezero also sang the official theme song for WeROCK City, "Rock City" from The Beginning CD.[3]
Raiden (2003-2007)
Ninezero was originally in a band called Raiden. Raiden broke into the Japananse market with 2006's first album Sound of Thunder. Several songs from the CD are used as background music in music interviews for WeROCK City.[4]
Discography
Maziora The Band
- Best Ass-Kickin Heavy Rock Vol.1 (2011)
Solo
- Sanity (2009)
- The Beginning (2008)
Raiden
- Sound of Thunder (2006)
Guest appearances
- Guitar Freaks V5 and Drum Mania V5 Original Soundtracks CD (2008) - Far Beyond Blackened
- The Gitado Live Benami 10th Memorial event DVD (2008) - Inside-Out, and Fire In The Dark.[5]
- Guitar Freaks V4 and Drum Mania V4 Rock X Rock CD (2007) - Inside-Out, Black Night - Deep Purple and Rock And Roll All Nite - Kiss.
GuitarFreaks and DrumMania
Ninezero is also the singer of Konami's GuitarFreaks and DrumMania series. He first appeared in the GuitarFreaks and DrumMania series with his original song, Inside-Out, in GuitarFreaks V4 and DrumMania V4 in 2007.[6] He also performed on two more tracks which were included in this series; Black Night - Deep Purple[7][8] and Rock And Roll All Nite - Kiss.[8][9] He performed Inside-Out and Fire in the Dark at The Gitado Live Bemani 10th Memorial event [5] in 2007 with an attendance of over 2000 people at Zepp Tokyo in Tokyo, Japan. This performance was released on The Gitado Live Bemami 10th Anniversary Live DVD.[5] Inside-Out, Black Night and Rock And Roll All Nite were released on the GuitarFreaks V4 and DrumMania V4 Rock X Rock CD by Konami in 2007.[10] He released his second original song, Far Beyond Blackened in GuitarFreaks V5 and DrumMania V5 Rock To Infinity in 2008.[11][12] This was followed by the inclusion of Far Beyond Blackened in GuitarFreaks V5 and DrumMania V5 Original Soundtracks CD in 2008.[13]
Other entertainment work
- Sings the theme song for Spa-O TV commerical, August 2011.[14]
- Sings the theme song for Tama Home TV commercial, July 2011.[15]
- Appears as Steve Wolf (Tony Wolf in English-language release), one of the characters in the Nintendo DS game Last Window 2010, as a rock singer.[16]
- Performed in the promotional video for Heiwa's Kenken Aloha de Hawaii pachinko game in 2007.[17]
- Singer of the theme song for Namco's Pro Yakyuu Netsusuta 2006 game [18]
References
- ^ Burrn! magazine (December 2008, Japan, page 116)
- ^ / Official site for Maziora The Band
- ^ Official site for WeROCK City
- ^ Official site for WeROCK CITY
- ^ a b c The Gitado Live Benami 10th Memorial event
- ^ Ninezero-Inside-Out official Konami Page
- ^ Black Night-Deep Purple performed by Ninezero from the official Konami site [1]
- ^ a b Official Song list for GuitarFreaks V4 and DrumMania V4 from Konami
- ^ Rock And Roll All Nite-Kiss performed by Ninezero from the official Konami site [2]
- ^ GuitarFreaks V4 and DrumMania V4 Rock X Rock CD
- ^ GuitarFreaks V5 - Far Beyond Blackened difficulty
- ^ DrumMania V5 - Far Beyond Blackened difficulty
- ^ GuitarFreaks V5 and DrumMania V5 Rock To Infinity CD
- ^ Official site for Ninezero
- ^ Official site for Ninezero
- ^ Official site for Last Window
- ^ Official site for Heiwa's Kenken Aloha de Hawaii
- ^ Official site for Namco's Pro Yakyuu Netsusuta 2006
External links
Categories:- Australian male singers
- Australian rock singers
- Video game musicians
- Australian heavy metal singers
- Living people
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