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Line 1: {{Use dmy dates\|date=September 2022}} {{Short description\|Swedish singer}} {{Infobox musical artist \|name = Urban Breed ~~\|background = solo_singer~~ \|image = \|caption = \|birth_name = Urban Breed \|birth_date = ~~February~~ 26 February \|birth_place = Sweden \|genre = [[Heavy metal music\|Heavy metal]] \|occupation = ~~[[Vocalist]], [[composer]], [[lyricist]], [[arranger]]~~Singer \|years_active = ~~\|instrument = [[Vocals]]<br />[[Bass guitar]]<br />[[Keyboard instrument\|Keyboards]]~~ \|label = [[AFM Records\|AFM]], [[Black Mark]], [[Century Media]] \|associated_acts = [[Bloodbound]]<br />[[Trail of Murder]]<br />[http://www.projectarcadiabg.com/ Project Arcadia]<br />[[Tad Morose]]<br />[[Dark Empire (band)\|Dark Empire]]<br />[[Pyramaze]]<br />Serious Black \|website = ~~[http://www.urbanbreed.com/forum www.~~{{url\|urbanbreed.com]}} }} Line 21 ⟶ 20: Urban's style and voice have been described as similar to [[Ronnie James Dio]] ([[Black Sabbath]], [[Rainbow (English band)\|Rainbow]], [[Dio (band)\|Dio]]), [[Jon Oliva]] ([[Savatage]], [[Jon Oliva's Pain]]), [[Zachary Stevens\|Zak Stevens]] ([[Savatage]], [[Circle II Circle]]), and [[Mike Howe]] ([[Metal Church]]). == Career == Urban's current bands are Serious Black, and Project Arcadia. His first official release was with '''Tad Morose'''. Line 35 ⟶ 34: '''Trail of Murder''' In October 2007, Urban announced his new full-time project, Trail of Murder, with Pelle Åkerlind ([[Morgana Lefay]], [[Bloodbound]]) and Daniel Olsson (ex-[[Tad Morose]]). Trail Of Murder signed a deal with Metal Heaven, and their debut album ''Shades Of Art'' was released in Europe on 26 October ~~26,~~ 2012. A brief tour followed in the spring of 2013. The album has received numerous, overwhelmingly positive reviews.<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://www.urbanbreed.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1148 \|title=Shades Of Art -– review thread -– www.urbanbreed.com \|website=www.urbanbreed.com \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029200434/http://www.urbanbreed.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1148 \|archive-date=~~2013-10-~~29 October 2013}}</ref> Urban left Trail of Murder in 2015 to focus on his other bands. '''Project Arcadia''' In the summer of 2012 Urban joined Project Arcadia and shortly after began recording vocals for their second album, ''A Time Of Changes''. He performed live with [http://www.projectarcadiabg.com/ Project Arcadia] in October 2012 in support of metal giants Accept. '''"[http://www.projectarcadiabg.com/ A Time Of Changes"]''' was released on 9 September 2014 in North America, 29 September 2014 in the rest of the world through Nightmare Records. Their first video, for "Formidable Foe" was released on 6 August 6, 2014.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPwjXPTZG3o\|title=PROJECT ARCADIA -– Formidable Foe (Official)\|website=[[YouTube]]}}</ref> The album was highly acclaimed by fans and by critics in various reviews.<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://www.urbanbreed.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1227 \|title=A Time of Changes -– review thread -– www.urbanbreed.com \|website=www.urbanbreed.com \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141108194713/http://www.urbanbreed.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1227 \|archive-date=8 November 2014~~-11-08~~}}</ref> '''Serious Black''' On ~~July~~ 18, July 2014, a new "supergroup" of sorts was announced: Serious Black.<ref>https://www.facebook.com/seriousblackofficial {{User-generated source\|certain=yes\|date=March 2022}}</ref> Including Roland Grapow (Masterplan) and Thomen Stauch (Blind Guardian, Savage Circus), as well as Dominik Sebastian (Edenbridge), Mario Lochert (Visions of Atlantis), and Jan Vacik (Dreamscape), the band released their debut album ''As Daylight Breaks'' in early 2015. They first toured as the supporting act for Hammerfall on their European tour in January and February 2015. Despite a couple of personnel changes over the ensuing year and a half, Serious Black released their second album ''Mirrorworld'' in September 2016, with Bob Katsionis (Firewind) and Alex Holzworth (Rhapsody) replacing Grapow and Stauch, respectively. They made their U.S. live debut at ProgPower XVII in Atlanta on ~~September~~ 10 September. Their first headlining tour took place shortly thereafter, in Europe. In April 2017, via their Facebook page, the band announced that their third studio album, ''Magic'', would be released in August 2017. They also announced dates for their supporting headlining tour in Fall 2017. Line 54 ⟶ 53: '''Other projects/bands''' On ~~July~~ 11, July 2008, it was announced that Urban had become the new singer of Danish progressive/power metal band [[Pyramaze]]. He replaced previous vocalist [[Matt Barlow]], who left to re-join [[Iced Earth]]. However, the work with Pyramaze was put on hold, and ultimately Urban never recorded with them. On 18 June ~~18,~~ 2010, Breed announced he would be singing on a new [[Dark Empire (band)\|Dark Empire]] album.<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://forum.urbanbreed.com/showthread.php?t=1001 \|title=More Urban on the horizon -– www.urbanbreed.com \|website=forum.urbanbreed.com \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717173114/http://forum.urbanbreed.com/showthread.php?t=1001 \|archive-date=~~2011-07-~~17 July 2011}}</ref> On 15 October ~~15,~~ 2010, Breed announced that due to what can best be termed creative differences, he would not be recording with Dark Empire after all.<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://forum.urbanbreed.com/showthread.php?t=1022 \|title=Archived copy \|access-date=~~2015-11-~~26 November 2015 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208035209/http://forum.urbanbreed.com/showthread.php?t=1022 \|archive-date=8 December 2015~~-12-08~~ }}</ref> Breed has also contributed backing vocals on fellow Swedes [[Wolverine (band)\|Wolverine]]'s 2003 album ''Cold Light of Monday'' and 2008's Memory Garden album, ''Carnage Carnival,'' and guest vocals on the song "Silence the Wolves," from Neverland's 2010 album ''Ophidia''. == About the name == Despite the various issues it raises, Urban breed insists that this is his actual given name,<ref name="Sentinel Reviews">[https://web.archive.org/web/20071212233727/http://www.sentinelreviews.com/Tadmorose-interview.html Interview with Christer Andersson].</ref> including the spelling of "breed" with a lowercase B. == Discography == === Tad Morose === ''A Mended Rhyme'' (1996) ''Undead'' (2000) Line 71 ⟶ 70: ''[[Modus Vivendi (Tad Morose album)\|Modus Vivendi]]'' (2003) === Bloodbound === ''[[Nosferatu ~~(Bloodbound album)\|Nosferatu]]~~'' (2005) ''[[Tabula Rasa (Bloodbound album)\|Tabula Rasa]]'' (2009) === Trail of Murder === ''[[Shades of Art]]'' (2012) === Project Arcadia === ''[[Time of Changes]]'' (2014) === Serious Black === ''[[As Daylight Breaks]]'' (2015) ''[[Mirrorworld]]'' (2016) ''Magic'' (2017) ''Suite 226'' (2020) == References == {{~~refbegin~~reflist}} ~~<references />~~ ~~{{refend}}~~ == External links == [https://web.archive.org/web/20090425034044/http://www.urbanbreed.com/forum/ Urban Breed's forum] * [http://www.urbanbreed.com/ Urban Breed's personal website] * [http://www.projectarcadiabg.com/en/meet/ubreed/ Urban speaks for the website of Project Arcadia] * [http://rocklivebg.com/web/articles/interviews-page/1641-interview-with-urban-breed-from-project-arcadia-en Interview of Urban and Plamen (Project Aracdia, guitars) for RockLiveBg.com]

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