|
 |
Artist description
Basically, Fozzy invented heavy metal some 20 years ago in Japan and their demos leaked to Europe and America, and thus were stolen by many well known metal bands. Well, they are back to reclaim their glory some 20 years later. |
 |
Music Style
Nu-Metal, Heavy Metal, any style within metal, etc. |
|
Musical Influences
We invented Heavy Metal. |
|
Similar Artists
Most every metal band since 1980 |
|
Artist History
"It's one thing to be big in Japan. But what if the music that made you big in Japan made other people big everywhere else? That was the fate suffered by Fozzy, the most influential band nobody ever heard. "Back in 1980, when we started, there was no heavy metal," says frontman Moongoose McQueen, who looks alarmingly like prowrestler Chris Jericho. "There was only punk and disco and new wave. We're the parents of heavy metal music. But Fozzy was so ahead of the times that nobody understood us. That's why we were forced to go to Japan, and why we signed the reocord deal that left us stranded over there for 20 years." While the Fozzsters labored in obscurity, the group's demos---smuggled out of Japan by fanatic fanatics--were snapped up by the likes of Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Twisted Sister, etc., who claimed Fozzy's groundbreaking music as their own.--Guitar World Magazine |
|
Group Members
Moongoose McQueen--vocals,
Duke Larue--guitars,
The Kid--guitars,
KK LaFlame--drummer,
Claude "Watty" Watson--bass,
Lord Bayden Powell--guitars. |
|
Albums
Fozzy Happenstance CD out July 30, 2002 |
|
Press Reviews
"Fozzy will now take their rightful place atop the metal kingdom."--MTV
|
|
Additional Info
Out on Megaforce Records. |
|
Location
Atlanta, GA - USA |
|
Copyright notice. All material on MP3.com is protected by copyright law and by international treaties. You may download this material and make reasonable number of copies of this material only for your own personal use. You may not otherwise reproduce, distribute, publicly perform, publicly display, or create derivative works of this material, unless authorized by the appropriate copyright owner(s).
|
|
