Crossbones were formed in 1995 in Tirana the capital city of Albania. First rehersals took place in a friend's house basement...hell yeah! ...and they hit the road to rock n roll with powerful explosive vocals, heavy guitar riffs and breathtaking drums.The first members were Olsi BALLTA(vocals) and Arbi XHELO(guitar),then Klodi SHEHU(guitar) and Alban MALE(drums & keyboards) joined the band and till 1998 they always had session bass players.At this time Fatjon GJASHTA joined the band as a bass player till 2000 when he left the band and moved to USA. The band had no name until Ols(vocals) opened an Albanian-English dictionary and picked the first word of a page he randomly opened...and it was CROSSBONES (1995).Crossbones is the 1-st albanian(AL) rock band releasing an album in CD , called "Days Of Rage" in 1997.It was recorded in a home studio and at that time the quality of sound was not so important more than the fact that Crossbones were entering in the Albanian rock music history as the first band ever recording and producing an album on CD of course with a little help for the financial issues. They are definitely the most powerful and famous band in the albanian metal underground.Crossbones performed live in several concerts and rock festivals in Tirana the capital of Albania,Durres city,Skopie/Macedonia but the most important ones are:1- Tirana Rock Festival 1996 (Tirana-Albania) 2- Underground Music Festival-Skopie/Macedonia 17-19 December 1999(punk,hardcore,thrash etc) held for 3 days in Skopie(about 700 people) 3- Radio Rock Fest - Tirana/Albania 2004 (about 700 people) 4- „Mjaft" Fest -- Durres City 2004 (about 1500 people) 5- Top Fest Rock Maratone - Tirana/Albania 2005(400-500 people) 6- What's Up Fest -- „MOTHER TEREZA" square-Tirana/Albania October 5, 2007(about 5000 people)-Crossbones appeared in Rock n roll Los Angeles Magazine 2000,an article talking about Balkan Underground Music Festival held in Scopie-Macedonia december 1999,where Crossbones performed live and had very good response from the audience).Songs such as "Stop The Madness" & "Don't Play With Fire" are played on air in several radios like "Zsentient MetalCast Radio" , "My hard station internet radio station" , "Pretty darn internet radio".Crossbones never had a record deal because in Albania there's not such industry for rock music and the only way is to look around in other countries. They have recorded lots of songs since their 1-st self released album, but they never released a second one due to financial and sponsor support issues and because what mentioned above. May be it's time to make a serious step to go to a next level. If any record label,radio,magazine,festivals,sponsors related with the rock music want to help us out...is more than welcome. We just want to have the chance to prove ourselves.Hails to our fans in Albania and all around the world!!! We'll never disappoint you!!!Stay heavy & Keep on Rockin' babe!!!CROSSBONES/ALBANIAAddress: Rruga "DURRESIT", P.79/5/47 Tirana -- AlbaniaTel: +355 4 2258 108 Fax: +355 4 2225 520 Mob: +355 68 20 83213 E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] Myspace: www.myspace.com/crossbonesrock
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