AXXIS- Guitarist, Marco Wriedt started to get serious interest about Music at the age of 7 when his dad bought him a couple of Classic Rock albums.
After listening to Legends like Steve Morse, Brian May, David Gilmore, Al Di Meola,Steve Lukather,Mark Tremonti, Joe Perry and Steve Howe, Marco realized that the Guitar would be his chosen instrument. When Marco turned 10, He and His dad went to a Live Concert and that evening changed Marcos life forever. From there on he started to take lessons from different kind of teachers (Rock/Pop/Metal/Jazz/Blues) to get an open wide musical horizon and a very diverse style. Some of his influences are: The Beatles, Marvin Gaye, Genesis, Return To Forever, Meat Loaf, Queen, Aerosmith,Megadeth,Creed, Earth Wind and Fire, Led Zeppelin, Journey, Prince,Santana, Coldplay, David Bowie, Pink Floyd, The Doors. In his teens, Marco played in several Local Bands And practiced every day after coming home from school.
When he turned 19 , Marco went on European Tour with the Band "Time" as support act of "Jeff Scott Soto". After recording an E.P with four songs Marco left the Band and started to study Music at a Music-school in Cologne/Germany. In summer 2006 he went on tour with Los Angeles based recording artist "Daize Shayne". The Band played some big festivals all over Europe with Sting and Glenn Hughes.
Since January 2007, Marco is the Guitar player of the Melodic-Heavy/Rock Band "AXXIS" and the first thing he did was to record the 2007 album "Doom of Destiny" which was released worldwide on November 16th. 2007 via AFM-Records.
After that, the Band went on a 2 1/2 Month European-Tour.
Early 2009, Marco finished recording Guitar Tracks and backing vocals for the current AXXIS Album "UTOPIA" which was released on August, 28th 2009 again via AFM-Records. The Album entered the german Mainstream Charts on No.40
Besides AXXIS, Marco is also doing Session work for other artists. Stay tuned for more
