Ninezero Explained

Ninezero
Birth Name:Craig Andrew Schweizer
Birth Place:Sydney, Australia
Birth Date:18 October
Background:solo_singer
Genre:Heavy metal, hard rock
Occupation:Vocalist, songwriter
Instrument:Vocal
Associated Acts:Maziora The Band, Ninezero, Kick Star Babies & Raiden
Years Active:1989 – present

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 on to singing in rock and heavy metal bands after graduating from the University of Newcastle, Australia.

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, formerly from Judy and Mary, Presence) and Himawari-drums (Dustar-3, formerly from 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 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

Solo

Raiden

Guest appearances

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.[8] He also performed on two more tracks which were included in this series; Black Night – Deep Purple[9] [10] and Rock And Roll All Nite – Kiss.[10] [11] He performed Inside-Out and Fire in the Dark at The Gitado Live Bemani 10th Memorial event[12] 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.[12] 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.[13] He released his second original song, Far Beyond Blackened in GuitarFreaks V5 and DrumMania V5 Rock To Infinity in 2008.[14] [15] This was followed by the inclusion of Far Beyond Blackened in GuitarFreaks V5 and DrumMania V5 Original Soundtracks CD in 2008.[16]

Other entertainment work

External links

Notes and References

  1. Burrn! magazine (December 2008, Japan, page 116)
  2. http://www.mazioratheband.com / Official site for Maziora The Band
  3. http://www.werockcity.com/ Official site for WeROCK City
  4. http://www.werockcity.com/ Official site for WeROCK CITY
  5. http://label.tanzanmusic.com/catalogue/various-artists/great-lefty-live-forever Official website
  6. http://d4-game.com/jp/index.html D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die official website
  7. http://020.holidayblog.jp/?p=299 Kenjiro Murai's official website
  8. http://www.konami.jp/bemani/gfdm/gfdmv4/music/insideout.html Ninezero-Inside-Out official Konami Page
  9. Black Night-Deep Purple performed by Ninezero from the official Konami site http://www.konami.jp/bemani/gfdm/gfdmv4/music/m909.html
  10. Web site: Official Song list for GuitarFreaks V4 and DrumMania V4 from Konami . 19 January 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090122224521/http://konamistyle.jp/customfactory/gfdmv4_st/list.html . 22 January 2009 . dead .
  11. Rock And Roll All Nite-Kiss performed by Ninezero from the official Konami site http://www.konami.jp/bemani/gfdm/gfdmv4/music/m920.html
  12. Web site: The Gitado Live Benami 10th Memorial event . 19 January 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090124100345/http://konamistyle.jp/customfactory/gitadolive_dvd/index.html . 24 January 2009 . dead .
  13. Web site: GuitarFreaks V4 and DrumMania V4 Rock X Rock CD . 19 January 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090122224521/http://konamistyle.jp/customfactory/gfdmv4_st/list.html . 22 January 2009 . dead .
  14. http://www.konami.jp/bemani/gfdm/gfdmv5/difficulty/gf.html GuitarFreaks V5 – Far Beyond Blackened difficulty
  15. http://www.konami.jp/bemani/gfdm/gfdmv5/difficulty/dm.html DrumMania V5 – Far Beyond Blackened difficulty
  16. Web site: GuitarFreaks V5 and DrumMania V5 Rock To Infinity CD . 19 January 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090121201317/http://konamistyle.jp/sp/gfdmv5_st/ . 21 January 2009 . dead .
  17. http://www.ninezero.net/06-news.html Official site for Ninezero
  18. https://accessgamesrecords.bandcamp.com/track/drank-dead-dom-die Bandcamp site for the Official soundtrack
  19. http://dagmusic.com/%e6%9c%80%e8%bf%91%e3%81%aecm/ Official site for Dagmusic
  20. https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ds/yluj/characters/ Official site for Last Window
  21. http://www.heiwanet.co.jp/latest/kenken/kenken_hawai_enter.html Official site for Heiwa's Kenken Aloha de Hawaii
  22. http://namco-ch.net/netsustu2006/index.php Official site for Namco's Pro Yakyuu Netsusuta 2006
  23. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kzGgaTz3n8 Dreamtonics Demo Song

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