Urban Breed

Urban Breed (often written with a lowercase "breed") is the current vocalist for Serious Black, and Project Arcadia, and he is the former vocalist for Swedish heavy metal bands Bloodbound and Tad Morose, as well as Trail of Murder.

Urban Breed
Birth nameUrban Breed
BornFebruary 26
Sweden
GenresHeavy metal
Occupation(s)Vocalist, composer, lyricist, arranger
InstrumentsVocals
Bass guitar
Keyboards
LabelsAFM, Black Mark, Century Media
Associated actsBloodbound
Trail of Murder
Project Arcadia
Tad Morose
Dark Empire
Pyramaze
Serious Black
Websitewww.urbanbreed.com

Urban's style and voice have been described as similar to Ronnie James Dio (Black Sabbath, Rainbow, Dio), Jon Oliva (Savatage, Jon Oliva's Pain), Zak Stevens (Savatage, Circle II Circle), and Mike Howe (Metal Church).

Career

Urban's current bands are Serious Black, and Project Arcadia. His first official release was with Tad Morose.

Tad Morose

Urban joined Tad Morose in 1996, replacing singer Kristian 'Krille' Andrén. He appeared on the albums A Mended Rhyme (1997), Undead (2000), Matters of the Dark (2002) and Modus Vivendi (2003). He left Tad Morose in December 2005.

Bloodbound

He sang on Bloodbound's 2005 debut, Nosferatu, and later co-wrote and performed on their third studio album, Tabula Rasa. Although he announced in 2006 that he was no longer working with Bloodbound, who hired another singer, Michael Bormann, to record vocals on their second album, he later agreed to, and did, perform with them at Sweden Rock Festival in June 2007. The band announced in October 2007 that he had rejoined as an official member. However, in 2010, Breed announced on his forum that Bloodbound had decided to continue with another singer, thus ending his second tenure with the band.

Trail of Murder

In October 2007, Urban announced his new full-time project, Trail of Murder, with Pelle Åkerlind (Morgana Lefay, Bloodbound) and Daniel Olsson (ex-Tad Morose). Trail Of Murder signed a deal with Metal Heaven, and their debut album Shades Of Art was released in Europe on October 26, 2012. A brief tour followed in the spring of 2013. The album has received numerous, overwhelmingly positive reviews.[1] Urban left Trail of Murder in 2015 to focus on his other bands.

Project Arcadia

In the summer of 2012 Urban joined Project Arcadia and shortly after began recording vocals for their second album, A Time Of Changes. He performed live with Project Arcadia in October 2012 in support of metal giants Accept.

"A Time Of Changes" was released on 9 September 2014 in North America, 29 September 2014 in the rest of the world through Nightmare Records. Their first video, for "Formidable Foe" was released on August 6, 2014.[2] The album was highly acclaimed by fans and by critics in various reviews.[3]

Serious Black

On July 18, 2014, a new "supergroup" of sorts was announced: Serious Black.[4] Including Roland Grapow (Masterplan) and Thomen Stauch (Blind Guardian, Savage Circus), as well as Dominik Sebastian (Edenbridge), Mario Lochert (Visions of Atlantis), and Jan Vacik (Dreamscape), the band released their debut album As Daylight Breaks in early 2015. They first toured as the supporting act for Hammerfall on their European tour in January and February 2015.

Despite a couple of personnel changes over the ensuing year and a half, Serious Black released their second album Mirrorworld in September 2016, with Bob Katsionis (Firewind) and Alex Holzworth (Rhapsody) replacing Grapow and Stauch, respectively. They made their U.S. live debut at ProgPower XVII in Atlanta on September 10. Their first headlining tour took place shortly thereafter, in Europe.

In April 2017, via their Facebook page, the band announced that their third studio album, Magic, would be released in August 2017. They also announced dates for their supporting headlining tour in Fall 2017.

Other projects/bands

On July 11, 2008, it was announced that Urban had become the new singer of Danish progressive/power metal band Pyramaze. He replaced previous vocalist Matt Barlow, who left to re-join Iced Earth. However, the work with Pyramaze was put on hold, and ultimately Urban never recorded with them.

On June 18, 2010, Breed announced he would be singing on a new Dark Empire album.[5] On October 15, 2010, Breed announced that due to what can best be termed creative differences, he would not be recording with Dark Empire after all.[6]

Breed has also contributed backing vocals on fellow Swedes Wolverine's 2003 album Cold Light of Monday and 2008's Memory Garden album, Carnage Carnival, and guest vocals on the song "Silence the Wolves," from Neverland's 2010 album Ophidia.

About the name

Despite the various issues it raises, Urban breed insists that this is his actual given name,[7] including the spelling of "breed" with a lowercase B.

Discography

Tad Morose
  • A Mended Rhyme (1996)
  • Undead (2000)
  • Matters of the Dark (2002)
  • Modus Vivendi (2003)

Bloodbound

Trail of Murder
  • Shades of Art (2012)

Project Arcadia
  • Time of Changes (2014)

Serious Black
  • As Daylight Breaks (2015)
  • Mirrorworld (2016)
  • Magic (2017)
  • Suite 226 (2020)

References
  1. http://www.urbanbreed.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1148
  3. http://www.urbanbreed.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1227
  4. https://www.facebook.com/seriousblackofficial
  5. http://forum.urbanbreed.com/showthread.php?t=1001
  6. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-12-08. Retrieved 2015-11-26.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  7. Interview with Christer Andersson.
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