Swedish Hard Rock Stars Join Forces On Special DVD To Benefit Tsunami Victims

January 4, 2005

About 150 of the biggest names in rock and hard rock from Sweden have recorded a song that will be released in a couple of weeks on a special DVD to raise money through the Red Cross for the victims of the horrible earthquake and flood disaster in Asia.

The song "Where Is The Fire" (written by Tommy Denander, Bjorne Lindbom and Bernt Ek) was originally recorded a few years ago for the victims of 9/11, but was eventually pulled from that project because it "was very poorly handled by the people in charge," according to a press release. The song has been kept in a vault with the intention of donating it if and when something horrible would happen again....well, it doesn't get much worse than this.

This special DVD will include a documentary of how the song was recorded, a music video of the song plus 10-15 never-before-shown or very rare videos with great bands like EUROPE, TALISMAN , LION'S SHARE, PAIN and lots of other great stuff.

"Where Is The Fire" credits:

Musicians:

Tommy Denander - Rhythm guitars, keyboards
Mikkey Dee (MOTÖRHEAD) – drums
John Leven (EUROPE) – bass.

Guitar solos (in order of appearance):

Mattias "IA" Eklundh (FREAK KITCHEN)
Pontus Norgren (HUMANIMAL)
Sayit (solo, JIM JIDHED)
Kee Marcello (EUROPE)
Yngwie Malmsteen
Tommy Denander

Lead vocals (in order of appearance):

Pierre Wensberg (PRISONER, SAYIT)
Göran Edman (MADISON, GLORY, YNGWIE)
Messiah Marcolin (CANDLEMASS)
Jan Johansen (solo, IGNITION)
Mats Leven (TREAT, DOGFACE)
Tommy Nilsson (EASY ACTION, solo)
Stefan Andersson (Solo)
Matti Alfonzetti (SKINTRADE, TALISMAN, JAGGED EDGE)
Thomas Vikström (TALK OF THE TOWN, CANDLEMASS)
Björn Lodin (BALTIMOORE)
Jim Jidhed (ALIEN, solo)
Geir Rönning (PRISONER, TOTO, solo)
Peter Tägtgren (HYPOCRISY, PAIN)
Dag Finn (SHA-BOOM, solo)
Leif Sundin (GREAT KING RAT, MICHAEL SCHENKER, JOHN NORUM)
Jocke Berg (HARDCORE SUPERSTAR)
Anders Möller (BLACK INGVARS)

Backing vocals:

(Bridge 1, middle section & acappella)

Bernt Ek (BEDLAM)
Mikael Eriksson (ZIFA)
Björne Lindbom

(Chorus 1)

Jan Johansen
Kristoffer Lagerström (SPIN GALLERY, CINEMA)
Tommy Nilsson

(Chorus 2)

Thomas Vikström
Stefan Andersson
Björne Lindbom
Göran Edman
Matti Alfonzetti
Mats Leven

All star choir featuring members of (in alphabetical order):

220 VOLT
ACES HIGH
A.C.T
ALIEN
AMAZE ME
BAD HABIT
BALTIMOORE
BEDLAM
BLACK INGVARS
BRAZEN ABBOT
CINEMA
CLOCKWISE
DAMNED NATION
DEBASE
DOGFACE
EASY ACTION
ECLIPSE
EVAN
EVERGREY
EUROPE
THE FORSAKEN
FORTUNE
GAELERI
GLORY
GREAT KING RAT
HAMMERFALL
HARDCORE SUPERSTAR
HOUSE OF SHAKIRA
HUMANIMAL
INHALE
INSANIA
JET CIRCUS
JOHANSSON BROTHERS
LAST TRIBE
LION'S SHARE
LIZZY BORDEN
LOCOMOTIVE BREATH
MADISON
YNGWIE MALMSTEEN
MILLION
MISTER KITE
NARNIA
JOHN NORUM
NOSTRADAMEUS
PAIN
PATHOS
PRISONER
RADIOACTIVE
RAINMAKER
PETE SANBERG
SAYIT
SEVEN WISHES
SHA-BOOM
SHOTGUN MESSIAH
SKINTRADE
SPIN GALLERY
STREET TALK
TALISMAN
TALK OF THE TOWN
TIAMAT
TREAT
WISDOM CALL
ZINNY ZAN

The single will be sold for a special price of 100 SEK (11 Euro or 15 Dollars) and every cent of the profit will be given to the Red Cross.

It will be available through several mail order shops in Europe and hopefully in USA and Japan soon as well.

An article (in Swedish) on the project published in this past weekend's edition of the Aftonbladet newspaper, can be viewed at this location.

For more information, visit www.tommy-denander.com.

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