Former lead singer of the Halifax based band Kilt.  SInger-Songwriter who moved to Australia in December of 2019 and is now calling Sydney Home.  Has been a working musician for 25 years and is getting ready to release a solo EP in the very near future.

Serenity:  In 2008, the dynamic Duo of Rock, twin brothers legally named Rock Star and Super Star, teamed up with legendary musicians to create “Serenity,” the first metal CD dedicated to conveying the importance of sobriety.
Rock Star and Super Star tapped Grammy Award-winning producer Bob Kulick to help create and produce this unique project.  Members from Kiss, Heart, Goo Goo Dolls, The Runaways, Trans-Siberian Orchestra and many other bands also participated.
“We invited many of our childhood music heroes to collaborate on this project, and they embraced it because they believe in the cause,” said Super Star, who conceived of the CD as part of his recovery from substance abuse. “The fact that we were able to successfully recruit so many icons of metal will help us bring visibility to the story we're telling.”
“Serenity,” which took nearly two years to complete, saw a digital release September 1, 2010 and a physical release date in 2011.  
“Our goal with the CD is to send a strong message that living a life without drugs and alcohol is the only way to achieve your dreams,” said Rock Star. “Since we know there are kids who would rather listen to music than read a book, we are using music to reach them in the language they understand.”
Joining the fight via guest appearances on the CD are music icons - including Cherie Currie (Runaways), Stevie Rachelle, (Tuff), George Lynch (Dokken, Lynch Mob), Chris Caffery (Savatage, Trans-Siberian Orchestra), Carlos Cavazo (Quiet Riot, Ratt), Mark Slaughter (Slaughter), Zak Stevens (Savatage, Circle Ii Circle), Jon Oliva (Savatage, Trans-Siberian Orchestra), Bruce Kulick (Kiss, Union), Howard Leese (Heart), Bob Kulick (Meat Loaf), Lorraine Lewis (Ex-Femme Fatale, Roktopuss), David Schultz (Goo Goo Dolls, Berlin), Veronica Freeman (Benedictum), Ted Poley (Danger Danger), Todd La Torre (Crimson Glory) and of course Rock Star aka Marc Kancler (Guitars) and Super Star aka Kris Kancler (Drums) and many more.

Welcome to the garden of my mind - where everything comes out as music.  Original compositions and live performances. Stay Healthy - Thanks so much for listening.

Armahda is a Brazilian heavy metal band. This album is about our culture, legends and true chapters of our history. Episodes that should not be forgotten.

Maurício Guimarães - all vocals and acoustic guitars

Renato Domingos - lead and rhythm guitars

João Pires - drums

Ale Dantas - lead and rhythm guitars

Paulo Chopps - bass

Nascido por geração espontânea.  

Giovanni Iasi e Pedro Iaco desenvolvem uma instrumentação acústica que mescla o uso ampliado da voz ao idiomatismo da viola caipira brasileira. Junta-se isso ao som do violão de seis e sete cordas.

 
BANZAI
 


The Wanton Bishops, though a band by every definition of the word, is actually the vision for one very eclectic man – Nader Mansour. A cultural anomaly, considering the fact that he was born and raised in Beirut, Lebanon, Nader as lead singer is the very epitome of a howling blues man. But throw in Nader’s psychedelic 60’s influences – the culture, literature and music, and a heavy dose of meditative Middle-Eastern Tarab, and you’ve got a wicked brew that the world has never seen or tasted prior. Supported by his guitar wielding comrades-in-arms, Eddy Ghossein and Salim Naffah, and his musical mercenary friends on bass and drums, Nader’s vision for The Wanton Bishops is now complete.
 
Digging into the soul of the music, Nader’s influences range from the blues of RL Burnside and Muddy Waters, to the rock of Led Zeppelin and Hendrix, going through the psychedelic sounds of The Doors, and The Velvet Underground, into the Tarab of Sabah Fakhri, Mohammad Kheiri, Oum Kolsoum and Asmahan. He creates music that takes the listener head first into wailing harmonicas, raw cat calls, contemplative Mawwals, psychedelic atmospherics and stomping garage-rock guitar riffs. Nader’s creative sidekick Eddy Ghossein is an anglophilic guitarist with a passion for classic and contemporary British sounds and harmonies. Under the guidance of Lebanese underground genius producer Fadi Tabbal, and with Eddy’s influence, Nader’s songs emerged from the Delta swamps and the Lebanese mountains into a musical landscape with a blues foundation and a modern rock twist, a space currently inhabited by bands like The Black Keys and The White Stripes. Yet in the case of The Wanton Bishops, their music oozes an original flavor that is unmistakably an animal from a far off exotic land.
 
The Wanton Bishops debut album, Sleep With The Lights On, won the Beirut band accolades and opportunities. MTV describing the album as “suspended between disillusionment and exultation, their visceral sounds echo the soul of their crumbling city,” with Rolling Stone painting an equally colorful critique, writing “The Wanton Bishops are a thrilling rush of raw blues and booze soaked indie rock, reminiscent of The Black Keys, but with a ramshackle sensibility all their own.” The band journey from Lebanon to perform festivals and club shows around the world, to include support opportunities with legendary acts The Who, Guns N’ Roses, and even Lana Del Rey.
 
In 2015 Nader expanded the band’s musical capabilities by adding other key players to the family, guitarist Salim Naffah (Loopstache) and drummer Pascal Semerdjian (Postcards) all while calling on Fadi Tabbal (Tunefork Studios) as a producer once more. A longtime friend of the band, Salim added a unique modern and dreamy musical component to Nader’s writing process, while Pascal brought in depth on drums as well as quirky patterns. To quote Nader, The Wanton Bishops are now a ‘free floating polyamorous relationship I share with a bunch of unbelievable human beings and musicians, Eddy, Salim, Pascal, bass player Antonio and sometimes others’ adding that the new music exudes ‘psychedelic, alternative-rock elements dabbled with flavours from the Middle East.’ Says Nader, ‘We are taking our blues induced rock and roll down an ethnic-electronic highway. We’re finally getting to the core of the music we want to create, and that core is scarily confused, much like our own identity as Lebanese people living in Beirut, that eternal cultural crossroad.’
 
After hitting European festivals all summer, to include Glastonbury, Nova Rock, and Solidays, the band will be touring worldwide throughout the winter of 2016/2017 in support of their new EP 'NOWHERE EVERYWHERE.' 

Stay tuned…

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