Metal legend Ross “The Boss” Friedman has written music history as a founding member of Manowar and The Dictators and his influence in heavy metal and also punk is noticeable to this day. Manowar’s first six masterpieces which saw him significantly involved in between 1982 and 1988 are immortal classics today, and that the band wasn’t able to deliver the same quality again after his departure speaks for the New York based guitarist and songwriter.
Since 2006, Ross has been releasing traditional and raw epic metal which calls up memories of the Manowar masterpieces from the 80’s with its very own style. New album ‘Born Of Fire’ is the fourth release from Friedman and his band which arrives not even two years after their chart breaking 2018 effort ‘By Blood Sworn’. Born Of Fire will be released on the 6th March 2020 via AFM Records.
01. Glory To The Slain
02. Fight The Fight
03. Denied By The Cross
04. Maiden Of Shadows
05. I Am The Sword
06. Shotgun Evolution
07. Born Of Fire
08. Godkiller
09. The Blackest Heart
10. Demon Holiday
11. Undying
12. Waking The Moon
Ross the Boss – Guitars, Keyboards (Death Dealer, ex-Brain Surgeons, ex-Manitoba’s Wild Kingdom, Manitoba, Shakin’ Street, The Dictators, ex-Manowar, ex-Ancillotti (live), ex-Heyday)
Mike LePond – Bass (Affector, Burnt City, Eternity’s End, Eynomia, Fatal Array, Heathen’s Rage, Holy Force, Mike LePond’s Silent Assassins, Rivera/Bomma, Symphony X, Two Hundred Feet, Ureas, Waken Eyes, Distant Thunder, Stygia, ex-Brute Force, ex-Midnight Eternal, Ango Tasso’s Air Force, Dead on Arrival, Everdawn, Mike Bino Project, ex-Ashenveil, ex-Elegacy, ex-MindMaze, ex-Painmuseum, ex-Seven Witches, ex-Sleepy Hollow, ex-Them, ex-Helstar (live), ex-Operatika Element (live), ex-Malakis Reign, ex-Last Union, ex-Rattlebone)
Marc Lopes – Vocals, Keyboards (Let Us Prey, ex-Trigger Effect, ex-Hellspeak, Dark Day Sunday, Kobra Kai, ex-Meliah Rage, ex-Hammersmyth)
Steve Bolognese – Drums (Death Dealer, ex-Baptized in Blood, ex-Into Eternity, ex-Witherfall, ex-Beyond the Embrace)