Last night, October 8, Helloween‘s bass player and founding member Markus Grosskopf has exclusively revealed in an interview for Tangra Mega Rock that he’s completed work on a mega-interesting side-project:
“I just finished recording an album called “Bass Invaders”. It includes a couple of heavy rock tracks without guitars. I just recorded bass guitars with a little bit of distortion here and there.
“You can hear Apollo Papathanasio, the singer from Firewind. I have Schmier from Destruction, Peavy Wagner from Rage, Tom Angelripper from Sodom – you know, all singing bass players. That’s the German section – those people are writing songs and singing.
“I have also a list of guests for some bass solo bits and pieces, like Billy Sheehan (ex-Mr. Big, Talas, Steve Vai, David Lee Roth), Rudy Sarzo (ex-Ozzy Osbourne, Quiet Riot, Whitesnake, Dio), Tobias Exxel from Edguy, D.D. Verni from Overkill, Jerry “Wyzard” Seay from Mother’s Finest, Marco Mendoza (ex-Whitesnake, Thin Lizzy, Derek Sherinian, Blue Murder)… I was just too lazy to play all the solos, so I invited all my heroes.
“The album is coming out in the end of January 2008 via the Italian label Frontiers Records.”
If that’s not breaking news!!!В A full transcript of the inteviewВ with Markus, revealing some facts about Helloween‘s new albumВ “Gambling with the Devil” and the upcoming tour with Gamma Ray, too, can be found HERE.