Artist: BRAZEN ABBOT
Album: BAD RELIGION RE-RELEASE (CD)

Release date: 1997/ 2005
Media type: CD

Brazen Abbot is a Finnish/Bulgarian/Sweden rock band. Originally a studio project of Bulgarian guitarist, producer and song writer Nikolo Kotzev, who is a Finnish resident, the band has since made several live performances.

One of the defining aspects of Brazen Abbot is the employment of multiple singers; every album features three or four singers, with Goran Edman and Joe Lynn Turner having appeared on most Brazen Abbot albums. Nikolo Kotzev originally intended to use only one singer; original singer Goran Edman could only commit to recording two songs for the first album due to contractual obligations. Glenn Hughes was then supposed to record the remaining songs; however contractual obligations hindered him from recording more than three songs, at which point Kotzev brought in Tomas Vikstrom to record the remaining songs. Kotzev was so pleased with the end result that he decided to keep using multiple singers for future albums. When performing live, however, Joe Lynn Turner is typically the only singer.

Several of the band members have also appeared on Nikolo Kotzev's ambitious rock opera Nostradamus (2001); Brazen Abbot was on hiatus during the time Kotzev was working on the rock opera (1998 - 2001).

TRACKLIST:

1. The Whole World Is Crazy
2. Nightmares
3. Two Of A Kind
4. I Will Rise Again
5. Day Of The Eagle
6. We Don't Talk Anymore
7. Wings Of A Dream
8. Bad Religion
9. Father To Child
10. Love Is On Our Side
11. Empire Of The Sun

CURRENT LINE-UP:

Nikolo Kotzev - guitars, violin, production, mixing
Goran Edman - vocals
Joe Lynn Turner - vocals (1996- )
Tony Harnell - vocals (2005- )
Erik Mеrtenson - vocals (2005- )
Nelko Kolarov - organs (2005- )
Wayne Banks - bass (2004- )
Mattias Knutas - drums (2005- )