zenmetalshirt

breakcore

metal

ambient

live performance

and charity

since 1997

zenmetalshirt is experimental electronica, industrial, breakcore, metal,ambient.

zenmetalshirt is a one man - music - project formed in 1997. it has grown out of roy’s need to develop his musical world beyond trend-measurements.

his ambition is to produce powerful, straightforward music.

there is no preproduced stuff in his music.

most drumloops are played live.

zenmetalshirt collaborates with artists from wisconsin, seattle, toronto, hawaii, germany, switzerland and the uk. their genres are industrial, classical, new age, indie rock, hardcore and electro punk and blues.

zenmetalshirt performs live with his friend Charles Atan.

he wants to help change the world by the means of music in a very simple way. one fifth of all he ever earns in his whole life for his music downloads will go to acknowlegded charity organisations.

until january-29-2009 100 percent of his income for downloads on kazzong.com will go the médecins sans frontières switzerland. please visit myspace.com/zenmetalshirt or zenmetalshirt.com for more infos.

his influences:

° pink floyd ° suicidal tendencies ° soulfly ° tool ° metallica ° bach ° dr.seuss ° hieronymus bosch ° enki bilal ° jean michael jarre ° alistair maclean ° manowar ° faith no more ° mani matter ° tom waits ° glenn gould ° toy dolls ° edvard grieg ° hg wells ° bob dylan ° mozart ° paco de lucia ° daft punk ° carl orff ° jiddu krishnamurti ° primus ° ennio morricone ° david lynch ° motorhead ° clint eastwood ° michael nyman ° public enemy ° john prine ° RHCP ° john carpenter ° peter greenaway ° faithless ° NWA ° terry gilliam ° jrr tolkien ° john frusciante ° soundgarden ° ang lee ° system of a down ° quentin tarantino ° audioslave ° apocalyptica ° sepultura ° tchaikovsky ° alan parker °

and ° the deep, dark and bright soul °

zenmetalshirt lives in switzerland, zurich in a very old house with his family and a lot of animals.