BLACK Hoping To Hit The Road Later This Year

March 12, 2011

Vocalist Tony Martin (BLACK SABBATH),bassist Magnus Rosén (HAMMERFALL),guitarist Andy La Rocque (KING DIAMOND) and drummer Danny "Danté" Needham (VENOM, TONY MARTIN) have joined forces in a new "supergroup" which is presently going under the working band name BLACK.

Commented Rosén: "It feels very interesting with our new band BLACK.

"We are working on new fresh metal songs and hope we will be ready for stage after the summer. We are also working on a tour in the end of this year. But so far it's not officially!

"It feels very nice to give the metal a new chance.

"It was four years ago [that] I stopped playing in HAMMERFALL. [Since then I have] been [involved with a] few metal projects, like X-WORLD/5 and REVOLUTION RENAISSANCE with Timo Tolkki from STRATOVARIUS plus a few other projects.

"BLACK is the band we will take into the future."

According to Martin, the first song that was written during the project's initial writing sessions is called "Deathless Soul" and it "sounds very dark." However, the singer is quick to point out, "I don't expect it to be completely in that vein."

BLACK is currently working on music at La Rocque's Sonic Train Studios in Varberg, Sweden as well as in England.

A photo of Martin, Rosén and La Rocque taken in late February in Sweden can be viewed below.

Martin took part in two Swedish workshops in Sweden last month — on Friday, February 25 at Gothenburg's Musikstationen (which is owned by Magnus Rosén and Nikolas Gialtrinos) and on Saturday, February 26 at Falköping's Musikskolan.

La Rocque and Rosén previously collaborated in the X-WORLD/5 project, which issued its debut album, "New Universal Order", in North America in November 2008 via Locomotive Records. The group also included PAGAN'S MIND vocalist Nils K. Rue. La Rocque and Rosén were also involved with POWERHOUSE, the Swedish supergroup which included Anders Johansson (HAMMERFALL, ex-YNGWIE MALMSTEEN) on drums, Mats Olausson (ex-YNGWIE MALMSTEEN) on keyboards and Mikael Ågren (ex-NOSTRADAMEUS) on vocals and guitar.

Martin's last solo album, "Scream", was released in November 2005 via MTM Music. The CD featured legendary drummer Cozy Powell (BLACK SABBATH, RAINBOW, WHITESNAKE) on the track "Raising Hell" as well as songwriting contributions by another SABBATH member, Geoff Nicholls.

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