Hozzen

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Hozzen
Hozzen leading Hungry rock band in M&M Battle of the Bands.
Background information
Origin	UK, Malaysia
Genre(s)	Thrash metal Speed metal Heavy metal
Years active	2005–present
Website	www.hozzen.com

Hozzen is a solo thrash metal project, active in Malaysia (2005-2007) and in UK (2007-current). Hozzen has been performing, recording and producing metal music with abstract concepts, mainly anti-war themes. Hozzen’s music has roots in classical music, as well as hard core thrash metal and is a guitar based music, mainly with uses of heavy rhythms and riffs.

1 Biography
2 Pessimistic Album
3 Further works
4 Notes

[edit] Biography

Hozzen has been playing the piano, violin, electric guitar, bass guitar, keyboards and a few other instruments since his childhood and has also been active in some other fields of arts, such as writing and directing "Psychos In Me", a musical short film. Hozzen has been playing and performing music professionally since year 2000 around Iran, Malaysia and UK in pop and rock bands such as Mahtab, Hamoon, CZF & Hungry. He has also been the solo violinist for Kerman Television Symphonic Orchestra in year 2001 with Savic Ghazarian as the conductor.^[1]

[edit] Pessimistic Album

The debutέ album, "Pessimistic" (2006), has put Hozzen second on Channel [V]'s AMP chart for two months^[2] since its release in June, 2007^[3]. Along with this success, Hozzen has produced Pessimistic video clip for Channel [V] which has been daily introduced on the AMP chart program during these two months. After the release of the first album, Hozzen has been "The Most Popular Artist" in both Metal^[4] and Thrash Metal^[5] categories of AMP chart.

The success of the debut album has got Hozzen many reviews and listings in local and international papers and websites, including Encyclopaedia Metallum^[6] and Metal Lyrica^[7], as well as Channel [V]'s AMP website.

All the vocals and instruments are by Hozzen himself; showing a range of diversified style with influences from different genres, mainly centred on hard core rock music with influences from bands such as Megadeth, Black Sabbath and Slayer. The track list for this album is^[8]:

Binary People (4.28)
Desert Sand (3:23)
Tired (4:45)
Pessimistic (4:24)
Revelation (5:11)
Blooming (3:46)
Master of Disaster (3:23)
Impotent (3:30)
Golgotha (5:33)
Vitamin K (3:04)
Wolf (3:42)
After All (4:10)

[edit] Further works

Since working professionally in the field, Hozzen has been composing classical music pieces, including a string quartet based on "Desert Sand", one of the songs from his first album. "Far Close", a set of 11 variations for solo piano was released in March 2008 as his second album, which will be available to download for free according to Hozzen’s Official Website. Hozzen is currently working on some further recordings and some research on 20th century music and is composing a set of modern pieces, including "5 am", a prepared piano and harpsichord duet which has been performed by KEYNOTE + ensemble, a quartet for Gemini ensemble and an electric guitar sonata.