Chromatic Black Mix all fundamental colors together and you get black - colorful black - chromatic BLaCK.

Diversity, creativity, and an open-minded character make life and music more chromatic - more condensed. See the colors, which mix to black - hear the individuality, which mixes to the music of chromatic BLaCK.

Five musicians, as different as possible, mixed to a loud ensemble. But not just the ingredients are important it depends on the mix to create nothing new but all different. Experienced best at the sweaty, excessive, and often out-of-control live shows.

John Norum Europe released its debut album in 1983. Although expectations weren't very high, it sold massively in Sweden and Japan. The reviews were very favorable, and many critics cited John's guitar work as one of the strongest aspects of the band. A few years of hard work followed. In 1986 the band was rewarded beyond any expectation with the worldwide breakthrough of “The Final Countdown” and the album of the same name.

Shortly after the breakthrough John left the band. He toured the world with various line-ups, worked with former Deep Purple singer Glenn Hughes and toured with Don Dokken of Dokken fame. He also contributed to prestigious tributes, such as the LA Blues Authority series.

Marco Mendoza Marco Mendoza is an American musician who spent his formative years living with his grandmother in Tijuana , Mexico. He started playing the guitar at an early age, adopting the bass when he was invited to join a band that needed a player.

He played in John Sykes' band Blue Murder, from 1991 until 1993. Mendoza is the current bassist for the reformed version of Thin Lizzy. From 2000 to 2003 he toured with Ted Nugent. He also toured with ex-Dokken guitarist George Lynch in his band Lynch Mob.

Mendoza’s latest album on Mascot Records, “Casa Mendoza,” is great melodic rock/hard rock with a sunny Latin flavor to it. The musicianship is top notch. Songs like “Suzy Q, You,” “Circle of Life,” “Betty Joe,” or “Get Ready” all are ready to infect the masses with their commercial sound.

Paper Aeroplanes Paper Aeroplanes is a girl and boy from West Wales who have been making music together for about 4 years now since they met at a rehearsal room in the tiny Welsh village of Llanfyrnach.

Richard Llewellyn grew up on the Welsh coast, listening to late-night Irish Radio stations from across the sea and playing in various locally famous bands. He became a sought after session musician and toured Europe and the US with various well known bands on bass and acoustic guitars. All this time however, he was writing songs in hotel rooms and honing his craft.

Sarah has been writing songs since she was 13 and roping in any school friend she could find to sing along. She started her first real band shortly after with the help of best friend and neighbor Nia George and two rebellious boys from music class.

Mortiis During the two-year process of slaving over Mortiis’ upcoming full-length, “The Great Deceiver,” the members of the band – Mortiis (vocals), Levi Gawron (guitar), Ogee (guitar), and Chris Kling (drums) – also had some alternative ideas brewing in the back of their minds. Some of them stemmed from songs on “the Great Deceiver,” while some of the songs were completely separate monsters, more inspired by the music of other artists than the music they were laying down tracks for.

“Perfectly Defect” is a result of the process of creating “The Great Deceiver.”

“The inspiration was very diverse,” Mortiis says. “The album was made across a period of time, so musically the album is really all over the place. Several bands and artists we were listening to inspired us, but I knew the record wasn´t going to be this super heavy industrial metal thing like ‘The Great Deceiver’ turned out to be.”

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Fans Express Destructive Pleasure Via Five New Mortiis Remix Kits

Mortiis has uploaded five new remix kits to the Mortiis Remixed website, making a total of eight songs available for fans to use and abuse.

The site (remix.mortiis.com) is a forum that allows anyone with access to music programs such as Live, Cubase, Logic, Garageband, and the like to download separated tracks and loops and create their own remixes.

"We got a bunch of mixes in return on the first batch of songs and we uploaded all the remixes to the player at Mortiis Remixed for everyone to hear,” Mortiis said. “We hope this will be as successful as it was last time around.”

Mortiis Discusses UK and European Dates, Launches Fan-Driven Remix Website

Mortiis is giving fans an opportunity to get creative with the tracks from “Perfectly Defect” through the newly-launched “Mortiis Remixed” site (www.remix.mortiis.com).

The site is a forum that allows anyone with access to music programs such as Live, Cubase, Logic, and Garageband, to download separated tracks and loops and create their own remixes. “Or simply abuse at will,” Mortiis laughed.”

The fan-created tracks can then be uploaded to the remix site and shared with the rest of the forum on the remix player.

“Perfectly Defect” was released in the fall as a free digital download. Mortiis supported the release with a winter European tour with Combichrist and will return to the UK this summer for another jaunt with Combichrist. Additionally, four mainland Europe dates have been added to the tail end of the tour.

No-Man's Tim Bowness and Nosound's Giancarlo Erra Team Up on Memories of Machines' Debur Album 'Warm Winter'

Memories of Machines’ “Warm Winter,” the highly-anticipated debut from the art rock collective led by No-Man’s Tim Bowness and Nosound’s Giancarlo Erra, will be released July 191 via Music Theories Recordings (Mascot Label Group).

Both Bowness and Erra are well-known in the art rock world as prolific musicians with a variety of projects on the go (Bowness recently co-produced ex-Fairport Convention singer Judy Dyble's acclaimed Talking With Strangers album).

The exchange of ideas and music that would become “Warm Winter” began in 2006, with Bowness in England and Erra in Italy. Over the next four years the album slowly came together via recording sessions in Manhattan, Sweden, Rome, and the UK.

The result of these sessions, "Warm Winter," is an epic album which possesses an unusual intimacy and ambience.

“All of the projects I'm involved in have a distinct identity, I think, and mostly that's due to the particular combination of writers or musicians involved,” Bowness said. “Unlike some of the other projects I'm in, we didn't really sit down and write together, or improvise in the studio. I'd say the way that we've written together has been pretty similar to how I used to work with Steven Wilson in the early days of No-Man.”

Prog Rockers Pallas Continue the 'Sentinal' Saga with New 'XXV' Release

To mark the 25^th anniversary of its release, seminal prog-rockers Pallas have issued the long-awaited sequel their “Sentinel” album, “XXV,” on Music Theories Recordings.

“XXV” picks up where “The Sentinel,” a concept album that incorporated a futuristic version of the tale of Atlantis along with Cold War-influenced themes, left off. The album’s first track, “Falling Down,” bridges the two releases.

The album’s second song, “Crash and Burn,” is where the story starts to unfold. “The lyrics set the scene in ‘Falling Down’ and now we cut away in cinematic terms to a very dramatic sequence of the story,” explained bassist/guitarist Graeme Murray. “Once again the human race is in dire straits. The Koreans are at war, the Middle Eastern Muslim states have banded together to form the United Islamic alliance, the planet is beset with ecological problems, and the world banking system has all but collapsed. Business as usual!”

Blood for Blood Talks Reunion and New England Metal and Hardcore Festival, Unveils Plans for New Album

After lying dormant for six years, Boston-based hardcore/punk band Blood For Blood will make their American return at this year’s New England Metal and Hardcore Festival on Friday, April 15.

The band has also announced plans to record a new record this year, their first since 2004’s “Serenity.”

Blood for Blood reunited last year for the European Persistence Tour, which also featured Sick Of It All, Unearth, and Evergreen Terrace.

“The amount letters from our fans were so overwhelming asking when or if we were ever gonna play again,” said vocalist Buddha. “It seemed now is the time to make our long over-due return. But, as always, we decide the terms as to what, when, and where Blood For Blood will play. We do what we want and we play ‘cause we want to and not ‘cause we need to.”

Blood For Blood 2011 consists of the longtime core of Buddha, guitarist Rob Lind, and bassist Ian McFarland, along with drummer Neal Dike.

Special guests Billy Graziadei (Biohazard) and Craig Silverman (Only Living Witness) will lend their guitars to live shows in Lind’s absence from the stage due to personal reasons. “We are pumped to have them join us on the road,” Buddha enthused.