Urban Breed

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Urban Breed
Birth name	Urban Breed
Born	February 26 Sweden
Genres	Heavy metal
Occupations	Vocalist, composer, lyricist, arranger
Instruments	Vocals Bass guitar Keyboards
Labels	Black Mark, Century Media
Associated acts	Bloodbound Trail of Murder Project Arcadia Tad Morose Dark Empire Pyramaze
Website	www.urbanbreed.com

Urban Breed (often written with a lowercase "breed") is the current vocalist for Trail of Murder and Project Arcadia, and he is the former vocalist for Swedish heavy metal bands Bloodbound and Tad Morose.

Urban's style and voice have been described as similar to Ronnie James Dio (Black Sabbath, Rainbow, Dio), Jon Oliva (Savatage, Jon Oliva's Pain), Zak Stevens (Savatage, Circle II Circle), and Mike Howe (Metal Church).

Career

Urban joined Tad Morose in 1996, replacing singer Kristian 'Krille' Andrén. He appeared on the albums A Mended Rhyme (1997), Undead (2000), Matters of the Dark (2002) and Modus Vivendi (2003). He left Tad Morose in December 2005.

His other projects include Bloodbound, and most recently, Trail of Murder and Project Arcadia.

He sang on Bloodbound's 2005 debut, Nosferatu, and later co-wrote and performed on their third studio album, Tabula Rasa. Although he announced in 2006 that he was no longer working with Bloodbound, who hired another singer to record vocals on their second album, he later agreed to, and did, perform with them at Sweden Rock Festival in June 2007, and the band announced in October 2007 that he had rejoined as an official member. However, in 2010, Breed announced on his forum that Bloodbound had decided to continue with another singer, thus ending his second tenure with the band.

In October 2007, Urban announced his new full-time project, Trail of Murder, with Pelle Åkerlind (Morgana Lefay, Bloodbound) and Daniel Olsson (ex-Tad Morose). Trail Of Murder signed a deal with Metal Heaven, and their debut album "Shades Of Art" was released in Europe on October 26, 2012. A brief tour followed in the spring of 2013. The album has received numerous, overwhelmingly positive reviews.^[1]

On July 11, 2008, it was announced that Urban had become the new singer of Danish progressive/power metal band Pyramaze. He replaced previous vocalist Matt Barlow, who left to re-join Iced Earth. However, the work with Pyramaze seems to be onhold.

On June 18, 2010, Breed announced he would be singing on a new Dark Empire album.^[2] On October 15, 2010, Breed announced that due to what can best be termed creative differences, he would not be recording with Dark Empire after all.^[3]

In the summer of 2012 he began recording vocals for the second album of Bulgarian metal band Project Arcadia, tentatively entitled "Time Of Changes." He performed live with them in Bulgaria in October 2012, and further dates are planned. "Time Of Changes" is expected to be released in the second half of 2013 and in the meantime, Urban and the band are almost ready with 4 (four) videos from the new release.

Breed also contributed backing vocals on fellow Swedes Wolverine's 2003 album Cold Light of Monday and 2008's Memory Garden album, Carnage Carnival, and guest vocals on the song "Silence the Wolves," from Neverland's 2010 album Ophidia.

About the name

Despite the various issues it raises, Urban breed insists that this is his actual given name,^[4] including the spelling of "breed" with a lowercase B.

Discography

Tad Morose

A Mended Rhyme (1996)
Undead (2000)
Matters of the Dark (2002)
Modus Vivendi (2003)

Bloodbound

Nosferatu (2005)
Tabula Rasa (2009)

Trail of Murder

Shades of Art (2012)

Project Arcadia

Time of Changes (expected 2013)

References

External links

Persondata
Name	Breed, Urban
Alternative names
Short description	Swedish singer
Date of birth
Place of birth	Sweden
Date of death
Place of death

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