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zpink

About Me

Zpink is an elderly(approximately 400 years old) Swedish gentleman,
currently residing in northen Wales.
He grew up on metal and Sisters and likes to make a lot of noise.
The story so far:
Born in Stockholm, or Birka as some people still knew it as,
he from an early age developed an interest in music.
The main inspiration being an overseas gentleman named
Vincent Furnier and a quartet of men in strange clothes
and makeup hailing from the same shores.
Granted his highest wish, on his 12th birthday he became
the proud owner of a 6-stringed candy-red double-cut-away lute
of the same model as the influential Tony from Birmingham.
Joining forces with his next-door neighbour and friend,
who owned a 4-stringed lute, he set up his first show.
Neither of the two young lads had any talent nor clue about
how to play their instruments.
The show was saved (or so they thought) by the fact that
the friend could mimic the 4-string lute player amongst
the aforementioned quartet's facial expressions.
Before reaching his teens he was migrated north,
due to family decision.
In the new school he soon became part of a short-lived band.
Swapping his 6-string to a 4-string he got involved in
learning a few songs by Nazareth and other contemporary heroes.
Still lacking talent, he soon realised that a life of partying
and passively enjoying music was so much easier.
Seasons passed, empires rose and fell and the 4 strings became 6.
Life continued and the lute was left in peace.
A number of years after migrating to a small island of the coast ofEurope,
he decided to start making some new noise.
The lutes are now run through some more advanced machinery
and there is also an organ present. Zpink still lacks talent.
The equipment will be further updated and some pictures posted.
For those of you who has bothered to listen, a pop-shield is
already invested in, so sound effects like the ones on Voices
will be less frequent from now on.
Cheers for reading, these ramblings will eventually be updated
with some more informational text.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/10/2006
Band Members: zpink - grunts growls and instruments
Arnold Layne - fashion

Influences: Skinny Puppy - the originals, and still the best.
Tiamat - hey, they're swedish.
Paradise Lost - since they're superb.
Nightwish - you just have to love 'em.
Arcturus - prog rox.
Mortiis - there has to be one on every planet.
Dimmu Borgir and most of the other Norwegian BM acts.
Not to mention Nephilim, SOM, Die Krupps, Saints of Eden, Pink Floyd..........

Sounds Like: None of the above, don't really have a style.
If you can't be bothered switching the speakers on,
I'm not gonna describe the noise neither!

Record Label: Penner-Strasse Studios
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Under the Devil's Shadow

This is the 2nd track from a new collaboration with VisionGhost, who's written the lyrics. Sorry for the crap production, it's mixed and mastered using head-phones due to external circumstances and wi...
Posted by zpink on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 01:58:00 PST

I'm off

Merry bloody xmas to anyone who accidently dropped by. I won't be on the net for a couple a weeks now, so won't reply to any mezz etc.   'til laters zpink
Posted by zpink on Fri, 22 Dec 2006 06:30:00 PST

Follow our tears......

Follow my tears is a taster of a new project started with VisionGhost, the Dublin bard in my friends list.My appologies for the crap vocals, I'm not much of a singer under the best of circumstances an...
Posted by zpink on Wed, 06 Dec 2006 03:28:00 PST

I'm not lazy

Well, actually I am, but at the moment I'm off to London for a week, so that's why I'm not online replying to messages etc.
Posted by zpink on Fri, 13 Oct 2006 06:56:00 PST