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Vlad

They crawl down your spine... They control the time and await their line...

About Me


Short Bio:
I'm heavy metal keyboardist and a Belgrade's University Law college student. I gratuated elementary music school for piano and joined my first and mother-band (Alogia) when I was 16. From that time, I recorded several albums of various metal genre and played live with most of them as a session or full-time keyboardist on a biggest rock events in our country. Currently I'm working on my own project together with my friend guitarist Nenad Kukic called Ultima.
Discography:
Hexagram - Moc Istocnog Vetra (2002)
Midgard - Slike Proteklih Godina (2003)*
Draconic - Conflux (2004)*
Alogia - Price o Vremenu (2004)
Hetera - Taida (2006)*
Alogia - Price o Vremenu i Životu (live) CD/DVD (CD available in stores! DVD COMING OUT SOON!!!)
* - appears as a session keyboardist
Currently playing with:
Alogia (full-time member)
Current gear:
KORG T3
KORG Triton Le
ROLAND Juno-D
KORG Legacy Collection
My gigs that I can't forget:
* Hard'n'Heavy Fest (my first gig! There was ~1,000 people out there shouting and it made me very excited!)
* Gitarijada in Zajecar (2002-2004)
* Openings for Paul Di'Anno (Barutana, 2002), Savatage (KST, 2002), Apocalyptica (SKC, 2006) and Whitesnake (Tašmajdan stadium, 2006)
* EXIT Fest (2005 w/ Alogia & 2006 w/ Alogia & Hetera)
* Anniversary of most famous Serbian rock bands Zabranjeno Pusenje & Riblja Corba in front of tens of thousands of people
* Recording a live DVD in most famous Belgrade venue SKC with several of most famous Serbian rock musicians (guys from Divlje Jagode, Osvajaci, Riblja Corba and Kerber)
Useful links:
Alogia's Official Website
Ultima's Temporary Webpage

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

in real life:
Probably every single guy from my "influences list" and Milla Jovovich :)

on myspace:
Hmmmm... Perhaps I could put this one in negative form: I wouldn't like to "meet" anyone just to make another "add on friends list"

Music:

Influences:
Richard Andersson, Vitalij Kuprij, Andre Anderssen, Jens Johansson & Kevin Moore

Favourite bands:
Arena, Majestic, Royal Hunt, Adagio, Symphony X, Ring of Fire, Arcturus, Stratovarius, Angra, Nocturnal Rites, At Vance, Ark, Yngwie Malmsteen, Tad Morose, Candlemass, Memento Mori, Stryper, Chroma Key, Muse...

Top 10 albums (with no order):
Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time
Ark - Burn the Sun
Stratovarius - Infinite
Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime
Majestic - Trinity Overture
Royal Hunt - Paradox
Mark Boals - Ring of Fire
Angra - Angels Cry
Symphony X - V: The New Mythology Suite
Arena - The Visitor **or perhaps Contagion? Argh.. can't think of it :)

Movies:

Favourite Actress:
Milla Jovovich, Michelle Pfeiffer

Favourite Actor:
Bruce Willis, Al Pacino

Favourite Movies:
Radovan III (I know it's a play but what the heck :)), Artificial Inteligence (movie with the most beautiful message ever), Ice Age, Matrix, Fifth Element

Books:

Sci-Fi, a little bit of epic fantasy, paranormal, about space theories and anything from Stephen King and Clive Barker

My Blog

Ultima demo available for download!

Hello guys!Here it is: ta-da! :) Yes, it's finally official! Ultima has finished its first "public" demo. Well, it was a little bit later than I promised, but, finally, you have two songs of my proje...
Posted by Vlad on Tue, 26 Dec 2006 08:51:00 PST

Ultima work has started!

I had a couple of talks these days concerning demo recording with all guys and made pretty accurate schedules as you can see in my calendar.I must say that I'm really excited. I brought to the end al...
Posted by Vlad on Sun, 24 Sep 2006 02:56:00 PST

Audio Player added!

I put some audio player on my page so that you could get more into my style of playing. Those songs are from the bands I play or had played before and are 128kbps stereo mp3 compressed. Hopefully, I ...
Posted by Vlad on Fri, 08 Sep 2006 05:43:00 PST