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Urban Breed (often written with a lowercase "breed") is the current vocalist for Serious Black, and (Project Arcadia ), and he is the former vocalist for Swedish heavy metal bands Bloodbound and Tad Morose, as well as Trail of Murder. Urban's style and voice have been described as similar to Ronnie James Dio (Black Sabbath, Rainbow, Dio), Jon Oliva (Savatage, Jon Oliva's Pain), Zak Stevens (Savatage, Circle II Circle), and Mike Howe (Metal Church). ==Career== Urban's current bands are Serious Black, and (Project Arcadia ). His first official release was with Tad Morose. Tad Morose Urban joined Tad Morose in 1996, replacing singer Kristian 'Krille' Andrén. He appeared on the albums ''A Mended Rhyme'' (1997), ''Undead'' (2000), ''Matters of the Dark'' (2002) and ''Modus Vivendi'' (2003). He left Tad Morose in December 2005. Bloodbound He sang on Bloodbound's 2005 debut, ''Nosferatu'', and later co-wrote and performed on their third studio album, ''Tabula Rasa''. Although he announced in 2006 that he was no longer working with Bloodbound, who hired another singer, Michael Bormann, to record vocals on their second album, he later agreed to, and did, perform with them at Sweden Rock Festival in June 2007. The band announced in October 2007 that he had rejoined as an official member. However, in 2010, Breed announced on his forum that Bloodbound had decided to continue with another singer, thus ending his second tenure with the band. Trail of Murder In October 2007, Urban announced his new full-time project, Trail of Murder, with Pelle Åkerlind (Morgana Lefay, Bloodbound) and Daniel Olsson (ex-Tad Morose). (Trail Of Murder ) signed a deal with Metal Heaven, and their debut album "Shades Of Art" was released in Europe on October 26, 2012. A brief tour followed in the spring of 2013. The album has received numerous, overwhelmingly positive reviews.〔http://www.urbanbreed.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1148〕 Urban left Trail of Murder in 2015 to focus on his other bands. (Project Arcadia ) In the summer of 2012 Urban joined (Project Arcadia ) and shortly after began recording vocals for their second album, "(A Time Of Changes". ) He performed live with (Project Arcadia ) in October 2012 in support of metal giants Accept. "(A Time Of Changes" ) was released on 9 September 2014 in North America, 29 September 2014 in the rest of the world through (Nightmare Records ) Their first video, for "(Formidable Foe ) was released on August 6, 2014.〔()〕 The album was highly acclaimed by fans and by critics in various reviews.〔http://www.urbanbreed.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1227〕 Other projects/bands On July 11, 2008, it was announced that Urban had become the new singer of Danish progressive/power metal band Pyramaze. He replaced previous vocalist Matt Barlow, who left to re-join Iced Earth. However, the work with Pyramaze seems to be on hold. On June 18, 2010, Breed announced he would be singing on a new Dark Empire album.〔http://forum.urbanbreed.com/showthread.php?t=1001〕 On October 15, 2010, Breed announced that due to what can best be termed creative differences, he would not be recording with Dark Empire after all.〔http://forum.urbanbreed.com/showthread.php?t=1022〕 On July 18, 2014, a new "supergroup" of sorts was announced: Serious Black.〔https://www.facebook.com/seriousblackofficial〕 Including Roland Grapow (Masterplan) and Thomen Stauch (Blind Guardian, Savage Circus), as well as Dominik Sebastian (Edenbridge), Mario Lochert (Visions of Atlantis), and Jan Vacik (Dreamscape), the band is expected to release their debut album in early 2015. They are signed on as the supporting act for Hammerfall on their European tour in January and February 2015 as well. Breed has also contributed backing vocals on fellow Swedes Wolverine's 2003 album ''Cold Light of Monday'' and 2008's Memory Garden album, ''Carnage Carnival,'' and guest vocals on the song "Silence the Wolves," from Neverland's 2010 album ''Ophidia''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Urban Breed」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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