Zachary Hietala

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Zachary Hietala
Zachary Hietala live with Tarot.
Background information
Birth name	Sakari Hietala
Born	August 10, 1962
Origin	Tervo, Finland
Genres	Heavy metal, power metal
Occupations	Musician, songwriter
Instruments	Guitar
Years active	1986–present
Associated acts	Tarot, Marenne

Sakari "Zachary, Saku" Hietala (born August 10, 1962 in Tervo, Finland) is guitarist, co-songwriter and founding member of Finnish heavy metal band Tarot (formerly Purgatory) in early 80's, together with his younger brother Marco Hietala, who joined Nightwish in 2001. Zachary works as a youth instructor in his hometown, Kuopio,^[1] as well as teaching music theory to ninth and tenth grade students, and takes part in the management of the official Tarot website, responding to questions and comments made by fans on the forum. Zachary is friendly and fun loving.

Tarot has so far released eight studio albums, latest has been released in early 2010. The next year after, the band rerecorded The Spell of Iron with updated sound and few lyric changes. Zachary Hietala plays guitar in Marenne,^[2] and is one of the composers in the band's debut album that was released in February 2009.

Zachary married in 2006, to Nina. They have a cat and a potbelly pig.

Zac's armory consists of custom Kramers, Charvels, LAG, ESP, Tokai and plays through a Marshall stack.

Discography

Tarot

The Spell of Iron (1986)
Follow Me into Madness (1988)
To Live Forever (1993)
To Live Again Live CD (1994)
Stigmata (1995)
For the Glory of Nothing (1998)
Shining Black Best of (2003)
Suffer Our Pleasures (2003)
Crows Fly Black (2006)
Undead Indeed Live DVD (2008)
Gravity of Light (2010)
The Spell of Iron MMXI (2011)

Marenne

The Past Prelude (2009)

References

v t e Tarot

Marco Hietala Zachary Hietala Janne Tolsa Pecu Cinnari Tommi “Tuple” Salmela

Studio albums & EPs	Spell of Iron Follow Me into Madness To Live Forever Stigmata For the Glory of Nothing Suffer Our Pleasures Crows Fly Black Gravity of Light The Spell of Iron MMXI

Live albums	To Live Again Undead Indeed

Videos and DVDs	Undead Indeed

Singles	“Wings of Darkness” “Love's Not Made For My Kind” “Rose on the Grave” “Angels of Pain” “As One” “The Punishment” “Undead Son”” “You”

Related acts	Nightwish Eternal Tears of Sorrow Turmion Kätilöt Northern Kings Sinergy

Persondata
Name	Hietala, Zachary
Alternative names	Saku
Short description	Metal Guitarist
Date of birth	10 August 1962
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death

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