Evil Masquerade

Infobox musical artist
Name = Evil Masquerade

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Origin = Denmark
Genre = Theatrical Metal
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Label = Marquee/Avalon
Nightmare Records
Escape Music
Art Music Group
Frontiers Records
CD-Maximum
IronD

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URL = [http://www.evilmasquerade.com/ www.evilmasquerade.com]
Current_members = Henrik Flyman
Apollo Papathanasio
Daniel Flores
Johan Niemann

Evil Masquerade is a Danish Theatrical Metal band.

Biography

Evil Masquerade was founded in the summer of 2003 in Copenhagen by guitarist Henrik Flyman (ex Wuthering Heights, Moahni Moahna, ZooL). He hooked up with Dennis Buhl (Hatesphere) behind the drums, Kasper Gram on bass and vocalist Henrik Brockmann (ex. Royal Hunt) to record the bands debut album. It was released early 2004 under the name "Welcome to the Show". It almost immediately received worldwide recognition and made the charts in Japan at no 8. Only a year later it was followed up with their second album "Theatrical Madness". Soon after, a couple of line up changes took place and new singer Apollo Papathanasio and bass player Thor Jeppesen entered the studio with Flyman and Buhl to record the album "Third Act" which took the band to the next level when it was re-released 2007 (a year after the original release date in Europe and Asia) on a much positive US market. Flyman never left the studio and wrote their fourth studio album "Fade to Black" which was recorded by yet a new lineup, with only vocalist Apollo and Flyman himself as the remaining members. New drummer is Daniel Flores (Mind’s Eye, Tears of Anger, ZooL) and new bass player is Johan Niemann (Therion, Hubi Meisel, Demonoid, Mind’s Eye). Special guest on keyboard is the legendary Tony Carey (Rainbow).

Members

*Henrik Flyman - guitar
*Apollo Papathanasio - vocals (since 2005)
*Daniel Flores - drums (since 2008)
*Johan Niemann - bass (since 2008)

Former members & guests

*Tony Carey (2008)
*David Rosenthal - keyboard (2006)
*Mats Olausson - keyboard (2004)
*Richard Andersson - keyboard (since 2004)
*André Andersen - keyboard (until 2005)
*Dennis Buhl - drums (until 2008)
*Thor Jeppesen - bass (2005 - 2008)
*Kasper Gram - bass (until 2005)
*Henrik Brockmann - vocals (until 2005)

Discography

*Welcome to the Show (2004)
*Theatrical Madness (2005)
*Third Act (2006)
*Fade to Black (2008)

Videos

*"Black Ravens Cry" (2007)"see the video on YouTube:" [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpKKDnUI-Lw]

External links

* [http://www.evilmasquerade.com/ Evil Masquerade Official Website]
* [http://www.myspace.com/evilmasquerade Evil Masquerade (Official MySpace)]
* [http://www.myspace.com/evilmasquerade_fans Evil Masquerade FANS (MySpace)]
* [http://www.henrikflyman.com/ Henrik Flyman Official website]