New band featuring Tony Martin.

I will definately check this out!





Ex-BLACK SABBATH Singer Joins Forces With KING DIAMOND Guitarist, Ex-HAMMERFALL Bassist - Mar. 1, 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 an as-yet-unnamed new "supergroup." The band is currently working on music at La Rocque's Sonic Train Studios in Varberg, Sweden as well as in England. More information will be made available soon.

Martin took part in two Swedish workshops in Sweden this past weekend — 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.

This has potential I like the Martin era Sabbath albums

With Andy La Rocque, it could be promising.

Very promising. Tony is one of the best metyal singers ever.

His voice is so haunting and fitted so well with Sabbath.

Sounds awesome

This indeed sounds awesome - will be checking 'em out

Tony Martin's great, looking forward to this.

I guess this "super-group" has morphed back into being "Tony Martin's Headless Cross". Here's the recently announced line-up for 2012 (they only have 1 show booked ):

Tony Martin - Vocals
Dario Mollo - Guitar
Magnus Rosen - Bass
Dante - Drums
Geoff Nicholls - Keyboard

Basically, in comparison to the original "unnamed super-group", Dario Mollo has replaced Andy La Rocque and they've added Geoff Nicholls (who has been playing with Tony's solo band for years anyway). I like Mollo a lot. He and Tony recently released the third entry from their Cage series and it's a really good album. Happy to hear these guys are working together again and hopefully we can get an album out of this group.

GrandNational wrote:

With Andy La Rocque, it could be promising.

Darn tootin'! One of my all time favorite guitarists.