Battleroar new singer!

[Orfanos]

The official announcement of the band (www.battleroar.gr):

07/09/2009 - New singer!!!
Dear Fans, we would like to inform you that Marco Concoreggi is no longer a member of Battleroar, due to personal reasons. After some research we have recruited a new singer for the band, John Papanikolaou from Greece. His name may ring a bell to some of the older fans of the Greek Heavy Metal scene. For all you, yes, that's the one and he is back in the metal business for good!
Stay tuned for more info. Hail

Very important news for the humble greek metal scene, as John (Yiannis in greek) Papanikolaou was the singer and co-founder of premium melodic heavy metal band INNERWISH. Their debut album "Waiting For the Dawn" is amongst the best albums coming from Greece and I recommend it to everyone here.

The thing that you don't know is that Yiannis left the band after this release and decided to devote his life to God becoming a monk! At the monastery he formed a christian rock band, which had a lot of commercial success in Greece some years ago. Yiannis left the monastery due to personal reasons two years ago and now is officially back to heavy metal!

You can listen Yiannis through the link below, the opening song of the Innerwish debut:



And here you can listen a piece of his work with the band he had as a monk:

 

[rms]

sounds like he has more of a euro PM voice than US power, can't say I have a huge interest in Battleroar though past a few listens..

 

[SickBoy]

He has a vibrato in his voice similar to that of Demis Roussos

 

[Orfanos]

He has a vibrato in his voice similar to that of Demis Roussos

Oh yes, you are right. I did't notice that before.

 

[Orfanos]

Here there are some videos from the recent first show with the new singer and lead guitarist of the band, at Tilburg, Holland. Not the best quality, but good.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E0UD33LIFk]Battleroar[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8l-fXkSelg0]Finis Mundi[/ame]

 

[sixxswine]

I have their last album...I listened to it last night. They are average at best. I literally hadn't listened to the album since I got it a couple of years ago.