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Michael Vescera is an American

United States

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Heavy metal music

Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...

singer for various bands and projects like Loudness

Loudness (band)

is a Japan-based heavy metal band formed in 1981 by guitarist Akira Takasaki and drummer Munetaka Higuchi. They were the first Japanese heavy metal act signed to a major label in the United States, releasing twenty-three studio albums...

(Soldier of Fortune, On the Prowl, Live at the Budokan), Obsession

Obsession (band)

Obsession is an American heavy metal band formed in 1982 famous for spawning the career of singer Michael Vescera.The band first came on to the scene on the Metal Massacre 2 compilation from Metal Blade Records. After that, the band released the albums Scarred for Life and Methods of Madness under...

(Marshall Law, Scarred for Life, Methods of Madness), Yngwie Malmsteen (The Seventh Sign
The Seventh Sign (album)
The Seventh Sign is the seventh studio album by guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen, released in 1994 through Music for Nations and Pony Canyon, Inc...

, Magnum Opus), Dr. Sin

Dr. Sin

Dr. Sin is a rock band, formed in São Paulo, Brazil in 1991 by Eduardo Ardanuy and brothers Andria and Ivan Busic.-Biography:In the mid 1980s, brothers Ivan and Andria Busic played in several metal and hard rock bands together...

(Dr. Sin II), Roland Grapow

Roland Grapow

Roland Grapow, born 30 August 1959 in Hamburg, Germany is a professional guitarist and music producer. Roland is best known for his time in the power metal band Helloween, who he played with for 12 years after replacing founding member Kai Hansen...

(Kaleidoscope
Kaleidoscope (Roland Grapow album)
Kaleidoscope is the second solo album released by former Helloween guitarist Roland Grapow.-Track listing:All songs written by Roland Grapow except where noted# "Walk On Fire" – 4:30# "Under the Same Sun" – 5:23...

) or his own band MVP (Mike Vescera Project).
Obsession provided soundtrack songs for the movies Sleep Away Camp and Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3'.

Besides being a vocalist, Vescera also works as a record producer: his recent collaborations include artists such as Metal Mike Chlasiak and Bobby Jarzombek
Bobby Jarzombek
Bobby "Wire" Jarzombek is a heavy metal/progressive metal drummer and best known for his work with Halford, Sebastian Bach and Riot. He has also recorded and toured with Fates Warning, Arch / Matheos, Iced Earth, Rob Rock, Spastic Ink, and Juggernaut, among others.-Biography:Bobby Jarzombek was...

(Halford
Halford (band)
Halford is a heavy metal band formed in 1999 by Rob Halford, the lead vocalist for Judas Priest. Halford formed the band to return to his heavy metal roots...

, Sebastian Bach
Sebastian Bach
Sebastian Bach is a Canadian heavy metal singer who achieved mainstream success as frontman of Skid Row from 1987 to 1996. Since his departure from Skid Row, he has had many television roles, acted within Broadway plays, and leads a successful solo career.-Early life:Bach was born Sebastian...

) and their soon to be released Pain Museum album, Bobby Blotzer's (Ratt) & John Corabi
John Corabi
John Corabi is a heavy metal singer and guitarist who has worked with such bands as Angora, The Scream, Mötley Crüe, Union and ESP , Ratt , Twenty 4 Seven , Zen Lunatic, Brides of Destruction, and Angel City Outlaws John Corabi (born on April 26, 1959 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a heavy...

's (Mötley Crüe
Mötley Crüe
Mötley Crüe is an American heavy metal band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1981. The group was founded by bass guitarist Nikki Sixx and drummer Tommy Lee, who were later joined by lead guitarist Mick Mars and lead singer Vince Neil...

, Scream
Scream (band)
Scream is a hardcore punk band from Bailey's Crossroads, Virginia active from 1981 to 1990. As of 2009, the band has reunited to play several shows.-Biography:...

) Twenty4Seven CD, Magnitude Nine's forthcoming album Decoding the Soul, Reign of Terror (featuring Joe Stump
Joe Stump
Joe Stump is an American guitarist and composer. He plays neo-classical metal, in a style similar to that of Yngwie Malmsteen. He has released albums with his band, Reign of Terror, and as a solo artist. He also plays the lead guitar for the symphonic metal band HolyHell...

) and Killing Machine (featuring Stet Howland and Mike Duda of W.A.S.P.) - just to name a few. Michael has his studio "The Toy Room" in Nashville Tennessee as well as a satellite studio "Toy Room North" in Milford Connecticut.
Vescera covered "Get a Life" by Siam Shade
Siam Shade
Siam Shade was a five-piece Japanese rock band, which broke onto the visual kei scene alongside a multitude of other artists in the early 1990s. They enjoyed a decade of relative popularity before disbanding in early 2002. On November 18, 2007, they reunited for a concert in honor of their...

for the 2010 tribute album, Siam Shade Tribute

Siam Shade Tribute

Siam Shade Tribute is a tribute album to Siam Shade, released on October 27, 2010. It is composed of covers of their songs by Western artists and is produced by well-known American producer Marti Frederiksen.- Track listing :...

. In mid-2011, while also continuing with his band OBSESSION, Mike joined ANIMETAL USA (Sony Music), playing heavy metal versions of Japanese Anime theme songs. (Following in the steps of the Japanese project Animetal
Animetal
was a Japanese novelty heavy metal band who specialized in metal covers of theme songs from classic and modern Japanese anime and tokusatsu television series....

.) This project features Rudy Sarzo on bass, Scott Travis on drums, and Chris Impelliterri on guitar.

Discography

Obsession
Obsession (band)
Obsession is an American heavy metal band formed in 1982 famous for spawning the career of singer Michael Vescera.The band first came on to the scene on the Metal Massacre 2 compilation from Metal Blade Records. After that, the band released the albums Scarred for Life and Methods of Madness under...

- Marshall Law (1984)

Obsession
Obsession (band)
Obsession is an American heavy metal band formed in 1982 famous for spawning the career of singer Michael Vescera.The band first came on to the scene on the Metal Massacre 2 compilation from Metal Blade Records. After that, the band released the albums Scarred for Life and Methods of Madness under...

- Scarred for Life (1986)

Obsession
Obsession (band)
Obsession is an American heavy metal band formed in 1982 famous for spawning the career of singer Michael Vescera.The band first came on to the scene on the Metal Massacre 2 compilation from Metal Blade Records. After that, the band released the albums Scarred for Life and Methods of Madness under...

- Methods of Madness (1987)

Obsession
Obsession (band)
Obsession is an American heavy metal band formed in 1982 famous for spawning the career of singer Michael Vescera.The band first came on to the scene on the Metal Massacre 2 compilation from Metal Blade Records. After that, the band released the albums Scarred for Life and Methods of Madness under...

- Carnival of Lies (2006)

Obsession
Obsession (band)
Obsession is an American heavy metal band formed in 1982 famous for spawning the career of singer Michael Vescera.The band first came on to the scene on the Metal Massacre 2 compilation from Metal Blade Records. After that, the band released the albums Scarred for Life and Methods of Madness under...

- Obsession (2008)(Japan Only)

Loudness
Loudness (band)
is a Japan-based heavy metal band formed in 1981 by guitarist Akira Takasaki and drummer Munetaka Higuchi. They were the first Japanese heavy metal act signed to a major label in the United States, releasing twenty-three studio albums...

- Soldier of Fortune (1989)

Loudness
Loudness (band)
is a Japan-based heavy metal band formed in 1981 by guitarist Akira Takasaki and drummer Munetaka Higuchi. They were the first Japanese heavy metal act signed to a major label in the United States, releasing twenty-three studio albums...

- On the Prowl
On the Prowl (album)
On the Prowl is the ninth studio album of Japanese heavy metal band Loudness. It is also their second and last album with American vocalist Mike Vescera, before his leaving to join Yngwie Malmsteen's band for the album The Seventh Sign...

(1991)

Loudness
Loudness (band)
is a Japan-based heavy metal band formed in 1981 by guitarist Akira Takasaki and drummer Munetaka Higuchi. They were the first Japanese heavy metal act signed to a major label in the United States, releasing twenty-three studio albums...

- Live Loudest at the Budokan '91
Live Loudest at the Budokan '91
Live Loudest at the Budokan '91 is the eight live album by the Japanese band Loudness. It was released at the end of 2009 as a package of a CD and a DVD, with recordings and footage from a concert held in Tokyo Budokan during the 1991 tour to promote the On the Prowl album, with Mike Vescera on...

(2009)

Yngwie Malmsteen - The Seventh Sign
The Seventh Sign (album)
The Seventh Sign is the seventh studio album by guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen, released in 1994 through Music for Nations and Pony Canyon, Inc...

(1994)

Yngwie Malmsteen - Live at Budokan (1994 VHS/DVD)

Yngwie Malmsteen - I Can't Wait
I Can't Wait (album)
-Personnel:*Yngwie Malmsteen - Guitars and backing vocals*Mike Vescera - Vocals*Mats Olausson - Keyboards and backing vocals*Mike Terrana - Drums and backing vocals*Barry Sparks - Bass and backing vocals...

(1994 EP)

Yngwie Malmsteen - Magnum Opus (1995)

Dr. Sin
Dr. Sin
Dr. Sin is a rock band, formed in São Paulo, Brazil in 1991 by Eduardo Ardanuy and brothers Andria and Ivan Busic.-Biography:In the mid 1980s, brothers Ivan and Andria Busic played in several metal and hard rock bands together...

- Dr. Sin II
Dr. Sin II
Dr. Sin II is the fifth studio album by Brazilian Hard rock band Dr. Sin, released in 2000. The power trio becomes now a quartet with Michael Vescera on the lead vocals.-Track listing:...

(2000)

Dr. Sin
Dr. Sin
Dr. Sin is a rock band, formed in São Paulo, Brazil in 1991 by Eduardo Ardanuy and brothers Andria and Ivan Busic.-Biography:In the mid 1980s, brothers Ivan and Andria Busic played in several metal and hard rock bands together...

- Shadows of Light
Dr. Sin II
Dr. Sin II is the fifth studio album by Brazilian Hard rock band Dr. Sin, released in 2000. The power trio becomes now a quartet with Michael Vescera on the lead vocals.-Track listing:...

(2002)

Killing Machine
Killing Machine (band)
Killing Machine is an American Metal band found by Peter Scheithauer that has released three albums, the self-titled effort in 2000 via Candlelight Records , Metalmorphis in 2006, via Mausoleum Records and Chapter One in 2010, via Axe Killer....

- Killing Machine (2000)

Michael Vescera - A Sign of Things to Come (2008)

MVP (Mike Vescera Project) - Windows (1997)

MVP (Mike Vescera Project) - Animation (1999)

MVP (Mike Vescera Project) - The Altar (2003)

MVP (Mike Vescera Project) - Crossing the Line (2004)

The Reign of Terror
Joe Stump
Joe Stump is an American guitarist and composer. He plays neo-classical metal, in a style similar to that of Yngwie Malmsteen. He has released albums with his band, Reign of Terror, and as a solo artist. He also plays the lead guitar for the symphonic metal band HolyHell...

- Sacred Ground (2001)

The Reign of Terror
Joe Stump
Joe Stump is an American guitarist and composer. He plays neo-classical metal, in a style similar to that of Yngwie Malmsteen. He has released albums with his band, Reign of Terror, and as a solo artist. He also plays the lead guitar for the symphonic metal band HolyHell...

- Conquer and Divide (2002)

Palace of Black - Palace of Black (2002)

Roland Grapow
Roland Grapow
Roland Grapow, born 30 August 1959 in Hamburg, Germany is a professional guitarist and music producer. Roland is best known for his time in the power metal band Helloween, who he played with for 12 years after replacing founding member Kai Hansen...

- Kaleidoscope
Kaleidoscope (Roland Grapow album)
Kaleidoscope is the second solo album released by former Helloween guitarist Roland Grapow.-Track listing:All songs written by Roland Grapow except where noted# "Walk On Fire" – 4:30# "Under the Same Sun" – 5:23...

(1999)

Safe Haven - Safe Haven (2004)

Stygia (2007)

Empires of Eden - Reborn in Fire (2010)

Nergard - The Beginning (EP) (2011)

Nergard - Memorial For A Wish ACT 1 (due for release fall 2011)
Animetal USA - Animetal USA (Oct 2011)

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