The above design shows Zeni Danussi fighting the invasion onto earth, you can see Zeni coming through the storm clouds from the earth's oceans and reaching to the heavens, Zeni is challenging the Alien mother ship and using the GIGER guitar to knock them back, lightning is coming from ZENI DANUSSI and touching the GIGER guitar, giving Zeni and his Giger the energy they need, but Zeni is losing the battle and fighting on, the GIGER guitar is weeping toxic gases, released from the Alien's, while Zeni is being blasted to bits from the mother ship. Unknown to Zeni, you can see two Alien sister ships coming through the words ZENI DANUSSI, which are going to give Zeni a surprise attack from the back.
RICK PARFITT - QUO/ UFO / ANGUS YOUNG - AC/DC / MATTHIAS JABS - SCORPIONS / PAUL MC CARTNEY - WINGS / THIN LIZZY / FIREHOUSE / STEELHEART / MUSIC AND LIFE ?
The 'AFTER SHOCK' album is about a slow methodical invasion from the aliens onto the human race. The difference with this alien invasion is that these aliens are the keepers of the universe and all the planets. These aliens go around managing/policing all the planets, and the reason for the invasion on earth is that the human race have not listened to the 5 galactic laws. The invasion will last 99 years and will only eliminate humans, leaving all other life and earth intact to re-establish itself. "THE COUNTDOWN HAS COMMENCED".
'AFTER SHOCK' the album is based around two songs - 'ALIEN ATTACK', the start of the invasion, and 'ALIEN ATTACK - The Final Conflict', the end of the invasion. In between these two tracks is a cocktail of the upheaval of what could happen on a real extraterrestrial takeover. The album starts with the track 'ALIEN ATTACK'.
'ALIEN ATTACK' begins by giving the impression of the alien ship approaching earth. The scratching sound of the guitar gives the idea of alien communication within the space ships while approaching their mission.
The track sets off with a crash of cymbals and a blast of guitar, giving the impression of a sudden attack. The crash of the cymbals/hard riff of the song symbolizes the aliens, with the frantic panic of the lead guitar being us, the humans.
The song progresses into a battle between aliens and humans but unknown to us, the aliens are assessing our firepower.
The track progresses into a frantic battle moving into an aggressive lead solo; giving the feeling that the humans are winning through.
The battle steps up another gear where there's double hammer-ons and comes to a climax with a fire of cymbals, giving the feeling of the aliens pounding earth with their advanced technology. The humans come back with a global force, where the lead guitar is going frantic, giving the sense of a human race in panic. The human race then watches the alien ships retreat, which gives them the idea that humans have won the attack.
The track then moves into a final stage where the aliens regroup and the mother ship orders all other aliens "SYSTEM CONFORM, MODIFY" to regroup for the final conflict. At the end of the track you can then hear the mother ship flying off into space to regroup.
The album comes out of the first section and into the second track 'ACCESS DENIED'. The idea behind this title is that after the aliens have invaded, our system goes into shutdown, where the world goverments isolate all civilians and puts on a cover-up so that no-one knows what is truly happening from the invasion, leading to 'ACCESS DENIED' in all areas.
The album shifts into track three, called 'SUICIDE GIRL'. The idea behind 'SUICIDE GIRL' is that the world has been turned upside down by the invasion and the silence of the governments. The world mayham is causing terror within the human race and leading to suicides because of the unknown fear and future of the planet. The scratching on the guitar gives the idea of humans trying to get out of this world, the high bends shows pain and sadness, while the guitar near the end makes you think of deep screaming sounds, the pause in this track gives the feeling of suicide thoughts ?
The mood then swings into the title track 'AFTER SHOCK'. This track is a powerful, hard-driving riff with total mayhem on the lead guitar solos throughout. The idea is to give the impression of panic and terror after the invasion; basically the human race is in 'AFTER SHOCK' from the destruction.
The next track, 'STOLEN MOMENTS', moves into a more slower but hard pace, giving the notion of the world being taken over, while the aliens have stolen our moments of everyday life. This pace moves into track six, 'CRYIN THE PAIN'.
The feel behind 'CRYIN THE PAIN' is to show sorrow and grief from losing what we took for granted. This track digs deep into the soul and makes us realize how important life really is.
We then move into ' RAGIN SINNER'. This gives an aggressive, hard-driving, angry riff, telling us that the human race still have hope and are prepared to come back for one last fight. The track battles through on hard-driving rhythm and lead guitar, building up into a fast solo, where the human race stand tall and fight for their lives. 'RAGIN SINNER' takes you into the next chapter, 'GUILTY BEFORE INNOCENT'.
This hard-driving groove carries on the pace from RAGIN SINNER, where we as humans are at war with the alien forces. We try to understand why we have been deemed GUILTY BEFORE INNOCENT, but still stand up for survival.
We then go into the track "BROKEN TEARS", this track is a slow groove, giving you the feeling of sadness, BROKEN TEARS is saying that, no matter how many tears we cry, they are all in vain ?.
The album then moves into 'UNTIL THE END'. This track starts off with a slow, sad keyboard feel, then hits in with a powerful riff with heavy floor toms, giving the feeling that the end is near for the human race as it stands today. The lead guitar delivers a sad tone of dying hope, but rocking feel. We then move into 'ALIEN ATTACK-THE FINAL CONFLICT'. This track delivers 100% of the alien war machine.
'ALIEN ATTACK - THE FINAL CONFLICT' comes back with a vengeance, where the space ships begin the final stages of their mission. The scratching of the guitar is the aliens communicating with each other while descending on earth.
The beginning of this track shows the alien ships positioning themselves onto earth and regrouping their positions for the final conflict. This is explained by the deep thumping sounds at the beginning of the track, giving the impression of landing their ships on the earth's surface.
The track then moves into a slow grinding, deep, heavy groove, giving the sense that the aliens on the ground are starting to sweep through the earth's surface, and wiping out city by city, while in the background of the track you have a constant hovering spaceship sound of the mother ship watching and guiding, which gives the feeling of constantly monitoring the mission/the destruction of mankind.
The guitar goes into a change of mood, letting us know that the human race have finally realised that they can not beat the alien war machine, and although they have not given up, they realise their destiny is destruction.
The guitar then moves into a high-screeching lead solo, giving the notion of human pain and that we are being overpowered by the force. The track then does a pause for a few seconds, giving the sense of a ceasefire, but really it's the alien mother ship ordering all spaceships off the earth surface for the final attack.
The track then moves into a fast lead solo, telling us that the human race is lost. The cymbals progress into a pounding of the track, giving the impression that all alien ships are wiping out the entire human race and are on the final stage of their mission.
The track ends with a high pitched dive bomb on the guitar, telling us that the final blow has been dealt.
The track fades into the mother ship hovering above earth and double-checking to see that the mission has been completed.
THE MEANING BEHIND THE 'AFTER SHOCK' ALBUM COVER
The 'AFTER SHOCK' album cover shows Zeni Danussi with a protective shield around him, which is protecting him from the aftershock of the alien attack, while the guitar is firing out lightning beams of music to blast them away. The back cover of the album, shows just the guitar with a alien head ghostly coming from it, with light beams around him, Sadly, this is telling us that the alien invasion has wiped out the human race forever, and there is no happy ending.
This guitar was designed as a limited edition from HR GIGER himself ( THE CREATOR OF THE ALIENS ETC IN THE ALIEN MOVIES ).
The design went through Ibanez guitars and is a Prestige Masterpiece ( ONE - OFF DESIGN ).
This monster is the ultimate playing machine.
With respect to HR Giger and Ibanez I will be writing two complimentary tracks.
The first track will be called ALIEN ATTACK, the second track will be called ALIEN ATTACK - THE FINAL CONFLICT.
RESPECT.
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ATOMIC CHASER - FULL REVIEW
AFTER SHOCK: Zeni Danussi
Independent Release
Long live lyrical shred! Long live musical guitarists! Long live Zeni Danussi! Imagine being able to take the best of Joe Satriani's soul and lyricism, Steve Vai's inventiveness and modalities, Eric Johnson's impeccable technique and John Petrucci's progressiveness, and fuse them all together. Throw in Danussi's own fire, originality and intensity. What you get, is Zeni Danussi's amazing debut release, 'After Shock'. From the moment the mind numbing "Alien Attack" fires out of your speakers Danussi has your senses locked in with your undivided attention. There is no let down in the audio thrill ride that awaits you with numbers like, "Access Denied", "After Shock" and "Ragin Sinner" that are sure to make the hair on the back of your neck stand up. While on tracks like, "Stolen Moments", "Cryin The Pain" and "Broken Tears" we find the subtle side of Danussi,
showing that even when he slows the pace down, he still sounds amazing without losing any emotional content. What distinguishes the really special guitar players for me is the emotion they are able to convey through the instrument, the tones they can get, their sense of melody, their ability alter tempos and moods and the ability to create a lyrical,
almost vocal component to their guitar voice. Most importantly, I need to hear songs! Take your time and listen to this album few times and you'll understand what I'm saying. Zeni Danussi's guitar playing communicates feeling. There is so much to like on this album for any guitar fanatic. The emotion and intense feeling behind every note is simply brilliant. The production quality throughout is outstanding as well. If you are looking for an instrumental type album that is not just forty minutes of a guy
playing notes as fast as he can, then the Zeni Danussi is where it is. There is enough diversity in sound and rhythm on this CD to have something for everyone to like. I am extremely impressed with Zeni Danussi's work and look forward to listening to more of his music in the future. Eleven tracks in all, ‘After Shock’ is an astounding instrumental album. - The Atomic Chaser
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
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BeRock Thanks & Critics for ZENI DANUSSI -AFTER SHOCK-
Body:
BeRock must thanks Mr. ZENI DANUSSI who gave us for a
EXCLUSIVE FIRST WORLD RADIO REVIEW
the tracks of his new Album -AFTER SHOCK-!
BeRock producers Critics for AFTER SHOCK:
Mr. Danussi is a virtuoso guitarist with a GREAT TALENT to writing music!
The fingers of this guy are like THUNDER over the guitar!
The AFTER SHOCK is a Rock MASTERPIECE, and every Rocker who
respects himself...must have it!
EXTRA WARNING - AFTER SHOCK MAY BLOW YOUR EARS!
This is a album "MUST HAVE" for all Rockers!!
Snaki 10/10
I love Zeni music!!
ZENI IS A GREAT ARTIST and AFTER SHOCK is a GREAT ALBUM!
This album is just...a Jewel!!
All the tracks have their unique special sound and the inspiration of Zeni from the Alien Invasion Theme turned out amazing.
I Love this Album and I certainly will play that tracks over and over again for a long-long-long time!
YOU ROCK ZENI!
Heaven 10/10 (Because I can't give 20/10)
Zeni Danussi isn't just another guitar player!He has such a unique
technique in his playing and his music makes you wanna close your
eyes and travel along! Great riffs, great melodies!
AFTER SHOCK is such a treasure!
Thank you for your music, Zeni.Keep on rocking!!
ANGIE!! 10/10
BeRock forum members:
"pls pls tell him that we send him our love......
and our best wishes for this excellent album.......
due to you can contact him...we can't!
we= the fans in the forum."
So as I said I'm a producer at BeRock Radio and Snaki (our admin) told me that you could give us an interview. The reason for this message is to arrange the interview. I also work for a fanzine and I'll really like to have an interview from you also posted in the fanzine. So which way do you prefer to do this? By phone or just by mailing the questions? Anyway works fine for us. You can have your time and answer whenever you can. I'll send you some questions within a week starting from today.
Good luck with your CD, you've done excellent work!
GeoRock
BeRock presents ZENI DANUSSI -AFTER SHOCK- at 01/05/2009
After the world Radio exclusive premiere of the song ALIEN ATTACK - THE FINAL CONFLICT from NEW ZENI DANUSSI Album "AFTER SHOCK" at BeRock (28/04 at Snaki Show) now comes the Best!
The day of the Album Release 01/05/2009 on the Show of Heaven (22:00-24:00 +2GMT)
BeRock will proudly present from the "AFTER SHOCK" album the songs:
ACCESS DENIED - SUICIDE GIRL - RAGIN SINNER
GUILTY BEFORE INNOCENT - BROKEN TEARS - UNTIL THE END
We must thank you for your music!
Your music is really AWESOME!!
KEEP ON ROCKIN' ZENI!
BeRock Play your music like nuts!! Hehe!
P.S And already have your blog at BR MSpace!:)
Snaki
" AFTER SHOCK" ALBUM GETS 10/10 FROM BEROCK RADIO REVIEW.
Subject: ZENI DANUSSI - AFTER SHOCK -A "Must Have" Album-
Body: ZENI DANUSSI - AFTER SHOCK
AFTER SHOCK album, will be released 1st May!
-The "AFTER SHOCK" is a album "MUST HAVE" for all Rockers!!
EXTRA WARNING - AFTER SHOCK MAY BLOW YOUR EARS-
"BeRock Online Radio Station" 10/10
Zeni Danussi MYSPACE:
http://www.myspace.com/zenidanussi
ALIEN ATTACK - THE FINAL CONFLICT WAS BLASTED ON THE - BE ROCK RADIO - IN GREECE.
Zeni
Your album is all I expected and more! Exceedingly inventive rock guitar that tells a story..
From your Alien friend Queen Vita of Voluptuia rocking the BBC.
Zeni Danussi
After Shock.
Zeni Danussi at last releases his music, he is not just playing his guitar he is the instrument. The strings tell the stories with individual style with both humour and compassion, when attacked by aliens make sure you are standing behind him. He conquers all instruments on the album with ease yet the distinctive voice of his Giger on Access Denied yells to be played loudly with the windows down in any traffic jam!
Stolen Moments is a love affair, Crying the pain is the last movement of the dying soul, every track manifests a picture in your own colours and words. Instructions for use: Listen to on your own planet….. then share with friends, lets hope he will get a share of the instrumental guitar galaxy! Rockin’
Sue Marchant
BBC
Hi Zeni,
Thanks so much for turning us on to your amazing guitar work! Love what I heard and would love to write up a review for you. Would it be possible to get a review copy from you? My review would be featured at THE DRP Music E-zine as well as at All Access Magazine. A SisonCruz
Hi! Here's the playlist of the show called: THE NOISE HOUR 09-30-09 where your band: ZENI DANUSSI was airplay again
Playlist: 1º LA PERRA PARDA Y LA CAMADA LECHOSA - Las Apariencias Engañan 2º ZENI DANUSSI - Ragin Sinner 3º KAMAEDZITCA - Kolazvarot 4º APOSTLES OF PERVERSION - Demencia Social 5º METALLHERZ - Despertar De Gaia 6º METALLHERZ - Mundo Gris 7º METRALLA - Hugo Benítez (Vocals) Interview 8º METRALLA - Sucio Vicio 9º METALLSPÜRHUNDE - Die Letzte Grosse Fahrt (Punto Omega Remix) 10º DEATHSTARS - Babylon 11º PESTA PORCINA - Masovera Canibal 12º GOZERK - Broken Mind 13º PESTA PORCINA- Albert "Roger Bricomaniac" Llobarro Interview 14º PESTA PORCINA - El Zoofilic De La Garrotxa 15º CRYING BLOOD - Solo Una Oportunidad, Solo Una Vid
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