Name: Andrei VARGA
Instrument: Singer
Bio: Joined VOS in 1996 as a keyboard player. Later because the band didn't find a good vocalist he started to sing.
Bandy was born in Cluj-Napoca on February the 16th, 1977.
His interest for music manifested at an early age. His grand-grand father
was a violin player and Bandy loved to listen his music. He played at
accordion as a kid, and his teacher was an old gipsy. After a few years
when he was for the first time at a live concert his dream was to become
a keyboard player. But, music remained for him just a hobby.
In 1996 he thought it's time to learn more seriously music and he started
at the Art School from Cluj-Napoca to learn Piano and Canto. In the same
year he met Szabi (guitar) who played in Voices Of Silence with an old school
friend of Bandy's Fricz, they were looking for a keyboard player. For the first time
he started to play in a band. After a year he became also the vocalist of the band
and after Feri came in the band he became just vocalist.
Equipment: Shure Mic SM 86
Listen to: Generally power-progressive bands and live music (especially gypsy music).
Favorites: Queensryche, Dream Theater, Rhapsody, Shadow Gallery, Black Sabbath, Depeche Mode.
Watching: Comedies, Discovery, Anything regarding high-tech.
Reading: Comical and technical magazines.
Eating: anything is special
Drinking: flavoured black tea, water, vine, beer.
Sports: "Live to ride my bike" ..................................................
Name: Vincze Szabi
Birthday : the 21-th of October, 1977
Birth place : Cluj-Napoca
Height : 1.79 m.
Hair : Slow
Eye color : Brown
Favourite bands : Metallica,Savatage, Queen, Shadow Gallery,Megadeth ,
Dream Theater, Annihilator, Slayer, Pantera...
Romanian bands: ( Ipse) Altar, Psycho Symphony
Favourite quitar : Gibson Les Paul Custom, Hohner Professional L75
Favourite quitar players : Brian May, Alex Skolnick, Chris Oliva, James Hatfild,
John Petrucci, Dave Mustaine...
Greatest dream : To be a quitar player in a band
Formed VOS in 1994.( www.voicesofsilence.ro )
Equipment: Marshall ,Hohner Professional L75
Watching: VH1, Discovery
Reading: Music Magazines, Guitar geek magazines
Eating: it's forbidden :)
Drinking: Beer, Vine, Tea, Watter
Projects:
Voices of Silence , Masterpiece,
Rospera
Ercsey-Ravasz Feri - keyboards/backing vocals
(Feri left the country for a period of 2 years but VOS
is still writing with him new songs during this period)
Name: Ercsey-Ravasz Francisc
Instrument: Keyboards/backing vocals
Bio: He started to collaborate with VOS first as a lyricist, since 1997 he is an active member as a keyboard player.
He was born in Cluj Napoca, in February the 22nd, 1974.
He started to play the guitar at the age of 17. Later he played bass guitar in a jazz rock band which never did anything.
When his good friend Szabi made his own band, he became the lyricist of the group that was to become later Voices Of Silence.
In 1997 he joined the band as a keyboard player (he learned this
instrument mainly at the Art School in Cluj). He studied choir leading at the Gheorghe Dima Music Academy.
Since 2000 he is the conductor of the Visszhang hungarian student's choir in Cluj.
Equipment: KORG M1
Listen to: Savatage, Dream Theater, Queensryche, Megadeth, Slayer, Queen, Beatles, Abba and loads of classical music.
Watching: documentaries, concert broadcasts, news
Reading: books, mainly about religion, philosophy, musicology, literature
Eating: anything
Drinking: coffee, beer, tea, milk, tonic, bitter, wine
Other projects: Visszhang (Echo) Student s Choir.......................................
Name: Esztergar Zoltán
Instrument: Bass
Bio: Joined VOS in 1995.
Zoli was born in Cluj-Napoca, on the 9th of June, 1976.
He bought his first instrument when he was seventeen.
It was a home made six string guitar. He started to play in his school's band,
named Spiritual in 1993. The band broke up a year later. With two ex-Spiritual members,
they formed a power metal band, Pantheon. This band broke up in 1995. Since February 1995
he became a member of Voices of Silence. In March 1996 he quit the band and joined a glam
rock band, called C.A.S.H. where he played until June 1998.
In October 1998 he re-joined V.O.S where he still plays and he hopes that he will play as long as he can.
Equipment: Yamaha
Favorite bands: Motorhead, Motley Crue, Savatage, Royal Hunt, Slayer
Favorite L.P.: Queensryche "Operation Mindcrime"
Favorite bass-players: Lemmy Killmister, Stuart Hamm, John Myung
Uses: Yamaha Attitude, D'Addario strings
Favorite Bass labels: Fender Jazz Bass, Rickenbacher, Fender Musicman, Ibanez.....................................
Name: Dorin Panduru
Instrument: Keyboards/backing vocals
Bio: Dorin joined VOS in 2008 after Feri's living to USA.
Equipment: KORG M1
Listen to: Dream Theater, Marilyn Manson, Muse.
Watching: VH1, MTV
Reading: music magazines, musical equipment magazines
Eating: stakes, pizza
Drinking: occasionally beer and wine
Other projects: VESPERA
SMEAGAL ..........................
Name: Adrian Marcus
Instrument: Drums/percussion
Bio: Joined VOS in 2009
Born on 25.08.1985 in Baia Mare Adrian folowed 1997 the classes of the "highschool of art" in his hometown as a percussionist.
In 2001 he moved his school to a musical highschool in Bucharest were in 2003 he started playing the drums with his mentor JEAN MARIAN MICU (VERDE, ALLEGRIA, TRANSILVANIA BRASS).
In 2006 he got a job as a drummer in Cluj Napoca and started to play the drums for bands for local bands and formed the AD LIBITUM EXPERIMENT band. In 2008 togheter with other young musiciens formed A.L.E.
Equipment: Tama Superstar Custom, Tama Iron Cobra flexi glide twin pedal, Sabian aax & hhx cymbals, Lp lil'ridge cowbell & jamblock, Evans drumheads, vic firth sticks...
Listen to: to many rock/metal, jazz/funk, latin/afrocuban, simfonic/classical artists/bands/composers to specify here
Watching: internet
Reading: books, booklets, magazines...
Eating: (almost) everything
Drinking : ...rarerly water :))
Influences
Savatage, Megadeth,Queensrych,Annihilator,Dream Theater,Slayer, Metallica, Black Sabbath,Shadow Gallery, Royal Hunt,Billy Idol
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................After 15 years of more or less intense activity, Voices Of Silence is more ready than ever to crush the scene. The group formed in 1994 by guitarist Szabi is true to its style, named power-progressive by some, and poetry metal by others.
The years brought their contribution to a more mature musical approach, so The new songs represent a huge step forward, compared to The deputing EP Stories Of My Ways and the very popular Thunderground. In those 13 years The band appeared on many scenes in The country, and even abroad. The guys opened shows for acts like WASP, LAKE Of TEARS, UDO,CATAMENIA, OSSIAN, TANKCSAPDA, NEVERGREEN,ORPHANED LAND. a.s.o. Nowadays they dont play shows so often, but when they do, they produce a real show for fans of real music. ..........................................................................................................
"The Human Saga"
The Story.....
After more than five years of songwriting and rehearsing, it’s studio time again. On April the 20th 2008 the last sounds are recorded, for a new, conceptual album, The Human Saga. The recording was done in Studio Mesaj, with sound engineer K. Nimrod. The concept itself is rather loose; you don’t have to read a storybook in order to properly enjoy the songs. Nevertheless, the 11 pieces of music are built around a set of ideas that you can follow. It’s mainly about human nature, the things that we do, our ways, beliefs and destiny since we left the Paradise of ancient innocence, up to the lack of perspectives of our extremely complicated society. This main idea is presented from different points of view in three songs that form an arch: The Human Saga; Gates Of Paradise; The Grand Illusion (The Jester’s Back).
For the first time VOS uses a live choir. In The Human Saga, the Visszhang (Echo) student’s choir, conducted by keyboardist Feri, sings a passage from the Bible, in Hebrew. The words are those spoken by God when He banishes Adam and Eve from Paradise. Gates Of Paradise song is about our eternal pointless search of happiness. Another arch, about dreams and sacrifice is formed this time by four songs: Daedalus’Son is about dreaming and giving everything for a dream, as a deeply human act of sacrifice. Aggressione is the other end of the perspective: killing innocent people in the name of an idea. The song was actually written after the terrorist attacks in Madrid. Die Sonne scheint noch (The Sun is still shining) is a song written in memory of Sophie Magdalena Scholl, a 21 year old girl who – together with her brother Hans and 3 other students - was condemned to death and executed (beheaded) by the Nazis in February the 22nd 1943 in Munich for distributing anti-war leaflets. In the court she reportedly told the judge: "Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just do not dare express themselves as we did." The words “Die Sonne scheint noch” were her last words. Another Dream is about all those rabid fantasies that pretend to revolutionize human life. We have seen them all: fascism, communism and the other “isms”, that tend to come back and haunt us from time to time. Hungry for Life is a song written by Nimrod, the legendary guitarist who played on the first three Altar albums. He’s not just our sound engineer, he has been our role model and friend for a long time, and we’re proud of that. In this song he wrote both music and lyrics, and he also plays the lead guitar parts. This song, and also Back to Life is about the way we lead our lives now: we lead our evil ways running for careers, for success, we’re treading on dead bodies and we don’t even notice how the years are running bye. In the ancient times people worked 4-6 hours per day for survival, and in the remaining time they created wonderful works of art. Now we’re working 8-10-12 hours a day, and that’s all we do. If this is evolution, than something went terribly wrong, because so far the only thing that really changed in human history is the efficiency of killing. The rest is just appearances. Without a Cause is about growing old and the changing of perspectives. We’re truly old when we finally give up our dreams; we get used to our own indifference and accept the presence of the word “impossible”. Favorite Fear was written after 06.06.2006, when the simplified data – 06.06.06 – created a genuine hysteria, women tried to avoid giving birth on that day, and the cemeteries had to be guarded because of the Satanist freaks. It seems that this favorite fear of ours about dark mysticism, the end of the world and all that jazz is deeply embedded in our genes.
The album ends with The Grand Illusion, which continues some of the ideas brought up on the last song of Thunderground (The Jester’s Requiem) and also closes the circle of ideas opened by the first song. Albeit, the album is a mirror that VOS puts in front of those who want to look into it, but beware: it’s not easy to face what you might see there!
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