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I manage a pizza shop by day and am a left-handed guitar shreddin metal singing god by night. I began playing guitar and writing and singing heavy metal music in middle school and won't stop till they pry the guitar from my cold dead hands. I have the world's coolest Jack Russell terrier named Pluto and he is my best little pal...all full of energy and determination.
Currently, I am lead singer for Shatter Messiah and lead guitarist/singer for H.A.T.E. Here is a list of all the bands I have had the priviledge to be a member of over the years:
Public Outcry 1984-1987
the original H.A.T.E. 1988-1991
Concussion 1991-1994
British Steel 1995-1997 (took over when Ripper left)
Archetype 1998-2001
Digital Nerve 2000-2001
Breaker 2000-2006
H.A.T.E. 2004-Present
Shatter Messiah 2005-Present.
In 2004, I sang with Cleveland's Breaker at the HOA Festival in Germany and met the infamous Mario van Dooren of Mario's Metal Mania webzine.
As of April 6th 2006, my Shatter Messiah bandmates Curran Murphy, Robert Falzano, Dusty Holt, Ron Boisvert, and I were signed to Germany's Dockyard 1 Records , who released our debut album, "Never to Play the Servant" in Europe on August 28th, 2006. So far, the album has gotten rave reviews across the boards in European fanzines and websites. The band is currently on a regional kick-off tour in Ohio with Lies Within...make sure to catch one of our shows!
H.A.T.E. just finished recording our debut album at Curran Murphy's Smiley Sounds Studios. It is currently in Germany being mastered and we are talking to a couple of possible distributors. Lou St. Paul of Winter's Bane, Curran Murphy of Shatter Messiah, and Nick Giannokos of Wretch/Breaker made guest appearances in the role of lead guitar player for most of the tracks: Thanks guys! We are working hard to get this done as soon as possible.
Check out my current projects-- H.A.T.E. on MySpace or also check H.A.T.E. on iSOUND.COM and don't miss Shatter Messiah.com or Shatter Messiah on MySpace .
THE REVIEWS ARE IN!!!!!!!!Check out what European mags have said about my performance on Never To Play The Servant...
www.rocktimes.de says, "Despite the many different style elements a red thread always pulls itself through the album, so that it sounds as from a casting. Because incontestablly, ex ark type and (hopefully still more up-to-date) BREAKER front man Greg Wagner, whom one must really call a vocal Chamäleon, has largest portion of it. This man controls the deep Death Metal Growls over to furious hard core roars and up to sensitive melodic singing handles each technical change and adapts thereby problem-free to the different tendencies of the Songs. A really unusual singer."
Gothtronic.com says, "Striking is especially the part of vocalist Greg Warner (Breaker, ex-Archetype) as he is able to do a lot with his voice. Be it melodic clean epic singing or demonic growling; he does it all."
metal-rules.de says, "But not only the guitar work of Curran Murphy makes the album so strong, but also the singing of Greg “Wags†Wagner (ex ARK TYPE, BREAKER) is pure insanity. I would have never thought “Wags†capable of such variety in the singing."
Metal Forever-Wags
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