ZED YAGO

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ZED YAGO – BIOGRAPHY
25 years of Dramatic Metal – 25 Years ZED YAGO
Just in time for their 25th anniversary, the German dramatic metal band ZED YAGO releases a sensational new album called
"PIRATES FROM HELL",
featuring 13 brand new tracks! Full of stomping grooves, great riffs and harmonies and paired with Yvonne's outstanding voice create a unique rock feeling – and ZED YAGO, whose big, emotional-loaded songs have an almost legendary recognition value. With no doubt the album will enthuse both old and new fans.
ZED YAGO 2012 are: Singer Yvonne Durand, Jimmy Durand on guitars and featuring legendary Tony Carey (ex-Rainbow) on keyboards. Tony Carey joined the line-up lately after listening to the new material.
"It was just magic and Yvonne's voice is so incredible. I just had to be a part of this."



Founded in 1985, ZED YAGO succeeded very soon also internationally. Their highly acclaimed debut album "From Over Yonder", which dealt with the story of original character of
ZED YAGO, the fictitious daughter of the Flying Dutchmen, became the album of the month in the German METAL HAMMER – leaving even AC/DC in the dust. Just in the first month after its release it sold more than 30.000 copies. At that time a metal band wit a female singer was absolutely unique – as was the use of Wagner motives in the music.
ZED YAGO's second album "Pilgrimage" took the band to Europe's biggest venues supporting Deep Purple, it peaked as number 1 of the Japanese Metal Charts and on its back the band toured as a support of W.A.S.P. through Ireland and England.
Coinciding with the band's 20th stage anniversary in 2006, ZED YAGO released a highly acclaimed live-album which featured next to ten live tracks two unreleased titles.
ZED YAGO was the flagship of a brand new and today flourishing musical direction: "Dramatic Metal", the combination of epic and mystic classical elements with dramatic metal arrangements which has been influential to bands such as Within Temptation, Evanescence or Nightwish.
ZED YAGO's new studio album will be released in early summer 2010.
In addition to 12 stunning brand new tracks it also features a cover version of the
DEEP PURPLE classic "Burn"."DEEP PURPLE has always been supporting us in an extremely friendly way – so it was obvious we wanted to do that song", says guitarist and songwriter Jimmy Durand. "Especially since so far no other female singer dared singing that track." Listening to the new album it is more than clear that ZED YAGO's credo hasn't changed a bit, as Jimmy points out: "It has always been a challenge for me to go our very own way musically; only if you do that a band can create and keep its own style and sound. Recognition is the most important for ZED YAGO. And also – sometimes it's just more fun to swim against the tide and stick out of the masses."
Tracks as "Born to Rock" or "Believe in Metal" do reflect what ZED YAGO live for. The omnipresent theme of the eponymous ZED YAGO and the loss of fantasy is represented by tracks such as "Sir Lancelot", "Valley Of The King" or "Master Of Black Arts".
Another issue which has always been important for ZED YAGO is the life of wolves, who have been featured in previous videos, and which is the theme of the new track "The Beast".
"The new album has become extremely diverse and multi-faceted", Singer Yvonne Durand says. "We had an incredible good time recording the material and we simply can't wait to present the new tracks to the world." "The honeymoon is over", joins keyboard legend Tony Carey –
"let's rock the stage!"



"ZED YAGO are, in my twisted mind, shaping up to be one of the greatest German rock bands of all time!" (Derek Oliver, Kerrang Magazine)



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