SHAKRA Parts Ways With Bassist

December 4, 2007

Swiss hard rockers SHAKRA have parted ways with bassist Oliver Linder due to "private reasons." According to the group, Oliver will stay in the band until his bandmates find a new bass player.

In a statement announcing his departure from the group, Oliver wrote: "We split on amicable terms. There were no musical or personal differences and I left the band because of private reasons only."

You can read Linder's entire statement at www.shakra.ch.

Bassists interested in applying for the vacant position in SHAKRA can contact the group at [email protected].

SHAKRA released its sixth album, "Infected", in the U.S. on September 11 via Locomotive Records.

Ever since its promising 1998 self-titled debut, SHAKRA has stayed true to its classic hard rock approach. The 1999 "Moving Force" follow-up saw the band tour with GREAT WHITE and URIAH HEEP. The breakthrough, though, came with 2001's "Power Ride" when vocalist Mark Fox replaced the ailing Pete Wiedmer. And Fox's imprint was all over 2003's "Rising" (the band's first to land on both the Swiss and German album charts).

Still, SHAKRA, more than anything else, is a live band. Its 2005 appearance at the prestigious Bang Your Head!!! open-air festival was a cause for celebration. That year's fall (resulting in SHAKRA's debut on the album chart in Switzerland) featured the hit single "Chains of Temptation", the video of which caused controversy when singer Fox was seen in the clip giving himself a heroin injection.

Watch SHAKRA's "Rising High" video:

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