Ninezero (born Craig Andrew Schweizer, 18 October) is an Australian rock/metal singer, songwriter and musician. He is influenced by heavy metal and hard rock to create a new kind of sound, referred to as power cacophony metal.Burrn! magazine (December 2008, Japan, page 116) Born in Sydney, Australia. He lived in Japan for over 20 years and now currently resides in Sydney, Australia.
Ninezero started his singing career singing in his high school choir and in classic musicals, such as The King and I, Oklahoma! and Kiss Me, Kate at the Riverside Theatre Parramatta. He moved on to singing in rock and heavy metal bands after graduating from the University of Newcastle, Australia.
Synthesizer V
Ninezero is known for his voice data bank on Synthesizer V, 9Z 1.0 and 9Z 2.0. This was released through Dreamtonics.https://dreamtonics.com/voices/ Official site for Dreamtonics]
Bands
Maziora The Band (2010–) Ninezero joined forces with some of Japan's most famous musicians to form Maziora The Band. The line-up is Ninezero-vocals, Kentaro-guitar (gargoyle), Yoshito Onda-bass (Zamza, formerly from Judy and Mary, Presence) and Himawari-drums (Dustar-3, formerly from Sex Machineguns)./ Official site for Maziora The Band
Solo (2007– ) His solo career as Ninezero, adopting his own name as the band's name, began with 2008's album The Beginning. This album was followed up with Ninezero's debut CD Sanity released in 2009. Ninezero also sang the official theme song for WeROCK City, "Rock City" from The Beginning CD.Official site for WeROCK City
Raiden (2003–2007) Ninezero was originally in a band called Raiden. Raiden broke into the Japananse market with 2006's first album Sound of Thunder. Several songs from the CD are used as background music in music interviews for WeROCK City.Official site for WeROCK CITY
Discography
Maziora The Band Best Ass-Kickin Heavy Rock Vol.2 (2013) Best Ass-Kickin Heavy Rock Vol.1 (2011)
Solo Sanity (2009) The Beginning (2008)
Raiden
Sound of Thunder (2006)
Guest appearances GREAT LEFTY: Live Forever (2015)Official website D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die official soundtrack (2014)D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die official website Kenjiro Murai "Bass Line" Soundtrack (2013)Kenjiro Murai's official website Guitar Freaks V5 and Drum Mania V5 Original Soundtracks CD (2008) – Far Beyond Blackened The Gitado Live Benami 10th Memorial event DVD (2008) – Inside-Out, and Fire in the Dark. Guitar Freaks V4 and Drum Mania V4 Rock X Rock CD (2007) – Inside-Out, Black Night – Deep Purple and Rock And Roll All Nite – Kiss.
GuitarFreaks and DrumMania
Ninezero is also the singer of Konami's GuitarFreaks and DrumMania series. He first appeared in the GuitarFreaks and DrumMania series with his original song, Inside-Out, in GuitarFreaks V4 and DrumMania V4 in 2007.Ninezero-Inside-Out official Konami Page He also performed on two more tracks which were included in this series; Black Night – Deep PurpleBlack Night-Deep Purple performed by Ninezero from the official Konami site and Rock And Roll All Nite – Kiss.Rock And Roll All Nite-Kiss performed by Ninezero from the official Konami site He performed Inside-Out and Fire in the Dark at The Gitado Live Bemani 10th Memorial event in 2007 with an attendance of over 2000 people at Zepp Tokyo in Tokyo, Japan. This performance was released on The Gitado Live Bemami 10th Anniversary Live DVD. Inside-Out, Black Night and Rock And Roll All Nite were released on the GuitarFreaks V4 and DrumMania V4 Rock X Rock CD by Konami in 2007. He released his second original song, Far Beyond Blackened in GuitarFreaks V5 and DrumMania V5 Rock To Infinity in 2008.GuitarFreaks V5 – Far Beyond Blackened difficultyDrumMania V5 – Far Beyond Blackened difficulty This was followed by the inclusion of Far Beyond Blackened in GuitarFreaks V5 and DrumMania V5 Original Soundtracks CD in 2008.
Other entertainment work Sings the theme song for Mr. Donuts, June 2015.Official site for Ninezero Sings a song on D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die, an episodic video game developed by Access Games and published by Microsoft Studios exclusively for the Xbox One.Bandcamp site for the Official soundtrack Sings the theme song for Bacardi Rum, April 2012. Sings the theme song for DOCOMO Eigahasumahode TV commercial, March 2012. Sings the theme song for Spa-O TV commercial, August 2011.Official site for Dagmusic Sings the theme song for Tama Home TV commercial, July 2011, March 2012 and April 2013. Appears as Steve Wolf (Tony Wolf in English-language release), one of the characters in the Nintendo DS game Last Window 2010, as a rock singer.Official site for Last Window Performed in the promotional video for Heiwa's Kenken Aloha de Hawaii pachinko game based on the Wacky Races series in 2007.Official site for Heiwa's Kenken Aloha de Hawaii Sings the theme song for Namco's Pro Yakyuu Netsusuta 2006 gameOfficial site for Namco's Pro Yakyuu Netsusuta 2006
References
External links Official YouTube channel