Ez Gomér
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Ez Gomér is a Swedish musician - vocalist and bass player, songwriter and producer.
Vocalist and bass guitarist
, Ez Gomér got his start in the mid-eighties when he joined the Swedish melodic metal band
Leviticus
in time to perform on its third and finest release “Setting Fire To The Earth” (-86). In -87, after some extensive European and American touring with Leviticus and after opening for bands like Uriah Heep
, Nazareth
and Twisted Sister
, Ez Gomér felt it was time to move on.
During his tenure in Leviticus, Ez struck up a friendship with the bands lead vocalist Terry Haw which at this time led to the creation of an energetic new group called “Jet Circus” consisting only of Gomér and Haw. As a live act a drummer was added and showed the band as a trio.
http://www.hmmagazine.com/oe/archives/000668.php
Jet Circus landed a rare endorsement deal from Harley-Davidson
in time for the American release and created an immediate buzz in the hard rock/metal community as well as amongst critics. When served a sound so different and fresh, they did not even have a name for what they heard. The suggestions were as many as there were critics. Some reported “Elvis
meets Cheap Trick
” others wrote “Led Zeppelin
meets Beastie Boys
meets Run DMC
”. “Jet Circus is what it would sound like if you could plug your guitar into a Harley”. Perhaps Derek Oliver of British “Kerrang!
” said it best: “Jet Circus.. is the best band I’ve heard to come out of Scandinavia - this band is brilliant”. Jet Circus is groovy music from the heart - all of its own brand.
With the -91, U.S radio hit song “Victory Dance”, Jet Circus were amongst the very first to experiment with metal and rap, which later on led them to be mentioned in the media as grandfathers for bands like “Limp Bizkit
” and “Linkin Park
”. Ez Gomér replied: “That’s fine with me as long as I don’t have to retire”.
In time for their first US tour, Jet Circus went No1 on the CCM radio chart with Break This Jail” and were airplayed somewhere in the States every twenty minutes for almost a year with songs like Victoy Dance, Rockin Horse, Jet Blue, Step On It and Break This Jail - which also went on to be “Metal song of the year” on CCM.
Following a tour of the U.S that same year, Ez and Terry Haw began writing and recording the material that would make up Jet Circus' sophomore effort - No Mercy For The Living Dead, but with never ending hazzle with the record company, this album project is still unfinished.
No Mercy For The Living Dead was recorded 1992-93 and 2004.
Terry Haw who since 1993 showed less interest in the band for every year left the band finally in 2003 leaving Ez Gomér to be the sole member of Jet Circus.
After the American Sony Epic debut, Jet Circus have since then released albums in Japan (Virgin/All Fired Up) South America
- Brazil, Argentina, Puerto Rico
, Peru, Europe - Scandinavia, England, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Italy, Spain and sold approximately half a million albums.
From 1993 to 2004, Ez Gomér recorded with bands and artists such as: Mikkey Dee (Motorhead, Dokken
), Tony Carey
(Rainbow
), Stephen Pearcy
(Ratt
), BB Cunningham (Jerry Lee Lewis
), James Lott (Carl Perkins
, Johnny Cash
), Sayit, (Tony Franklin
, Richard Marx
), Tommy Denander (Toto
, Paul Stanley
, Radioactive), Jani Stefanovic
(Divinefire
, Miseration
) Pete Pritchard (Scotty Moore
, Eric Clapton
).
Ez Gomér runs his studio “Hypersonic Studios” and advertising agency
in the heart of Gothenburg, Sweden
and has been working as a lecturer at the Skövde University College
, teaching entrepreneurship and song writing.
Discography
Jet Circus - Step On It
Jet Circus - No Mercy For The Living Dead
Jet Circus - Look At Death Now
Jet Circus - Dance Or Die
Leviticus - Setting Fire To The Earth
Veni Domine
- Tongues
Contamination - Paradoxx Remixed
Templar - Witch Hunt
Liberty ´N Justice - Soundtrack Of a Soul
Liberty ‘N Justice - Independence Day
Shaboom - The Race Is On
The Royal Years - Compilation
Motion Factory - Compilation
Royal At its Best - Compilation
Heavens Metal Collection 1 - Compilation
Righteous Metal II - Compilation
Ez Gomér Vegas Overdose (Work in progress)
Sources:
Angelic Warlord, Kerrang, Bridefan, No Life Til metal, Rad Rockers, Pahntom Tollbooth, Freewebs, Cross Rhythms, CCM
Vocalist and bass guitarist
Bassist
A bass player, or bassist is a musician who plays a bass instrument such as a double bass, bass guitar, keyboard bass or a low brass instrument such as a tuba or sousaphone. Different musical genres tend to be associated with one or more of these instruments...
, Ez Gomér got his start in the mid-eighties when he joined the Swedish melodic metal band
Heavy metal music
Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...
Leviticus
Leviticus (band)
Leviticus was a Christian metal band from Sweden. The band formed in 1981 and was led by Bjorn Stigsson. They released four albums before breaking up in 1990.- Background :...
in time to perform on its third and finest release “Setting Fire To The Earth” (-86). In -87, after some extensive European and American touring with Leviticus and after opening for bands like Uriah Heep
Uriah Heep (band)
Uriah Heep are an English rock band formed in London in 1969 and regarded as a seminal classic hard rock act of the 1970s. Uriah Heep's progressive/art rock/heavy metal fusion's distinctive features have always been massive keyboards sound, strong vocal harmonies and David Byron's operatic vocals...
, Nazareth
Nazareth (band)
Nazareth is a Scottish hard rock band, founded in 1968, that had several hits in the UK in the early 1970s, and established an international audience with their 1975 album Hair of the Dog. Perhaps their best-known hit single was a cover of the ballad "Love Hurts", in 1975...
and Twisted Sister
Twisted Sister
Twisted Sister is an American heavy metal band from Long Island. Musically, the band implements elements of traditional heavy metal bands such as Iron Maiden and Judas Priest, along with a style that is similar to early glam metal bands...
, Ez Gomér felt it was time to move on.
During his tenure in Leviticus, Ez struck up a friendship with the bands lead vocalist Terry Haw which at this time led to the creation of an energetic new group called “Jet Circus” consisting only of Gomér and Haw. As a live act a drummer was added and showed the band as a trio.
Creating Hybrid Metal
Ez wanted to create something fresh and different and told “The whole idea was to dig inside instead of looking at others”. Experimenting and having fun was high priority. As a result, the two came up with the creative "hybrid-form" of funky groove-laden hard rock - found on the Sony Epic 1991, U.S debut release “Jet Circus - Step On It”.http://www.hmmagazine.com/oe/archives/000668.php
Jet Circus landed a rare endorsement deal from Harley-Davidson
Harley-Davidson
Harley-Davidson , often abbreviated H-D or Harley, is an American motorcycle manufacturer. Founded in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, during the first decade of the 20th century, it was one of two major American motorcycle manufacturers to survive the Great Depression...
in time for the American release and created an immediate buzz in the hard rock/metal community as well as amongst critics. When served a sound so different and fresh, they did not even have a name for what they heard. The suggestions were as many as there were critics. Some reported “Elvis
Elvis Presley
Elvis Aaron Presley was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King"....
meets Cheap Trick
Cheap Trick
Cheap Trick is an American rock band from Rockford, Illinois, formed in 1973. The band consists of members Robin Zander , Rick Nielsen , Tom Petersson , and Bun E...
” others wrote “Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin were an English rock band, active in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s. Formed in 1968, they consisted of guitarist Jimmy Page, singer Robert Plant, bassist/keyboardist John Paul Jones, and drummer John Bonham...
meets Beastie Boys
Beastie Boys
Beastie Boys are an American hip hop trio from New York City. The group consists of Mike D who plays the drums, MCA who plays the bass, and Ad-Rock who plays the guitar....
meets Run DMC
Run-D.M.C.
Run–D.M.C. was an American hip hop group from Hollis, in the Queens borough of New York City. Founded by Joseph "Run" Simmons, Darryl "D.M.C." McDaniels, and Jason "Jam-Master Jay" Mizell, the group is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential acts in the history of hip hop culture.Run–D.M.C...
”. “Jet Circus is what it would sound like if you could plug your guitar into a Harley”. Perhaps Derek Oliver of British “Kerrang!
Kerrang!
Kerrang! is a UK-based magazine devoted to rock music published by Bauer Media Group. It was first published on June 6, 1981 as a one-off supplement in the Sounds newspaper...
” said it best: “Jet Circus.. is the best band I’ve heard to come out of Scandinavia - this band is brilliant”. Jet Circus is groovy music from the heart - all of its own brand.
With the -91, U.S radio hit song “Victory Dance”, Jet Circus were amongst the very first to experiment with metal and rap, which later on led them to be mentioned in the media as grandfathers for bands like “Limp Bizkit
Limp Bizkit
Limp Bizkit is an American rock band from Jacksonville, Florida. Formed in 1995, the group's lineup consists of Fred Durst , Wes Borland , Sam Rivers , John Otto and DJ Lethal . The band achieved mainstream success with their second studio album Significant Other, released in 1999...
” and “Linkin Park
Linkin Park
Linkin Park is an American rock band from Agoura Hills, California. Formed in 1996, the band rose to international fame with their debut album, Hybrid Theory, which was certified Diamond by the RIAA in 2005 and multi-platinum in several other countries...
”. Ez Gomér replied: “That’s fine with me as long as I don’t have to retire”.
In time for their first US tour, Jet Circus went No1 on the CCM radio chart with Break This Jail” and were airplayed somewhere in the States every twenty minutes for almost a year with songs like Victoy Dance, Rockin Horse, Jet Blue, Step On It and Break This Jail - which also went on to be “Metal song of the year” on CCM.
Following a tour of the U.S that same year, Ez and Terry Haw began writing and recording the material that would make up Jet Circus' sophomore effort - No Mercy For The Living Dead, but with never ending hazzle with the record company, this album project is still unfinished.
No Mercy For The Living Dead was recorded 1992-93 and 2004.
Terry Haw who since 1993 showed less interest in the band for every year left the band finally in 2003 leaving Ez Gomér to be the sole member of Jet Circus.
After the American Sony Epic debut, Jet Circus have since then released albums in Japan (Virgin/All Fired Up) South America
South America
South America is a continent situated in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere. The continent is also considered a subcontinent of the Americas. It is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the north and east...
- Brazil, Argentina, Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...
, Peru, Europe - Scandinavia, England, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Italy, Spain and sold approximately half a million albums.
From 1993 to 2004, Ez Gomér recorded with bands and artists such as: Mikkey Dee (Motorhead, Dokken
Dokken
Dokken is an American heavy metal and hard rock band formed in 1978. They split up in 1989 but reformed four years later. The group accumulated numerous charting singles and has sold more than 10 million albums worldwide...
), Tony Carey
Tony Carey
Antony Laurence Carey is a keyboard player best known for his work with Rainbow.One of his earliest musical experiences was in a band called Blessings, in which he played until 1975 when Ritchie Blackmore discovered and hired him as keyboardist for Rainbow. He played with Rainbow on two world...
(Rainbow
Rainbow (band)
Rainbow were an English rock band, controlled by guitarist Ritchie Blackmore from 1975 to 1984 and 1994 to 1997. It was originally established with American rock band Elf's members, though over the years Rainbow went through many line-up changes with no two studio albums featuring the same line-up...
), Stephen Pearcy
Stephen Pearcy
Stephen Erica Pearcy is the lead singer of the 80's metal band Ratt. He has also been in the bands Arcade, Vicious Delite, Vertex, Nitronic, and Band From Hell...
(Ratt
Ratt
Ratt is an American heavy metal band that had significant commercial success in the 1980s. The band is best known for songs such as "Round and Round," "Wanted Man," "Lay It Down," "You're in Love", "Slip of the Lip", "Back For More", "Dance", "Body Talk", "I Want a Woman", and "Way Cool Jr." Ratt...
), BB Cunningham (Jerry Lee Lewis
Jerry Lee Lewis
Jerry Lee Lewis is an American rock and roll and country music singer-songwriter and pianist. An early pioneer of rock and roll music, Lewis's career faltered after he married his young cousin, and he afterwards made a career extension to country and western music. He is known by the nickname 'The...
), James Lott (Carl Perkins
Carl Perkins
Carl Lee Perkins was an American rockabilly musician who recorded most notably at Sun Records Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, beginning during 1954...
, Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash
John R. "Johnny" Cash was an American singer-songwriter, actor, and author, who has been called one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century...
), Sayit, (Tony Franklin
Tony Franklin (musician)
Anthony James "Tony" Franklin is an English rock musician, best known for his work on the fretless bass guitar with Roy Harper, The Firm, Jimmy Page, John Sykes' Blue Murder, Whitesnake and briefly, with Quiet Riot.-Fretless bass:...
, Richard Marx
Richard Marx
Richard Noel Marx is an American adult contemporary and pop/rock singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. He had a string of hit singles in the late 1980s and 1990s, including "Endless Summer Nights", "Right Here Waiting", "Now and Forever", and "Hazard"...
), Tommy Denander (Toto
Toto (band)
Toto is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1977. The group currently consists of Joseph Williams , David Paich , Steve Porcaro , Steve Lukather , Mike Porcaro , and Simon Phillips . Toto is known for a musical style that combines elements of pop, rock, soul, funk, progressive rock, hard...
, Paul Stanley
Paul Stanley
Stanley Harvey Eisen , better known by his stage name Paul Stanley, is an American hard rock guitarist, singer, musician, painter and songwriter best known for being the rhythm guitarist and primary lead vocalist of the rock band Kiss. He is the writer or co-writer of many of the band's...
, Radioactive), Jani Stefanovic
Jani Stefanovic
Jani Stefanovic is a guitarist and drummer born 23, May 1979. Jani started playing around the age of 13–14 years old.-Current Bands:*Divinefire*Miseration*Essence of Sorrow *Mehida *The Few Against Many*The Weakening...
(Divinefire
Divinefire
Divinefire is a Christian Symphonic Power metal group founded in the spring of 2004 by Finnish guitarist Jani Stefanovic, and Swedish singer Christian Liljegren. Liljegren is the former frontman of the band Narnia....
, Miseration
Miseration
Miseration is a Swedish death metal band formed in 2006. Their lyrics primarily deal with themes of inner struggles and religious conflict. The band is one out of a collection of collaborations with both Jani Stefanovic and former Scar Symmetry vocalist Christian Älvestam; for example, both also...
) Pete Pritchard (Scotty Moore
Scotty Moore
Winfield Scott "Scotty" Moore III is an American guitarist. He is best known for his backing of Elvis Presley in the first part of his career, between 1954 and the beginning of Elvis' Hollywood years...
, Eric Clapton
Eric Clapton
Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE, is an English guitarist and singer-songwriter. Clapton is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: once as a solo artist, and separately as a member of The Yardbirds and Cream. Clapton has been referred to as one of the most important and...
).
Ez Gomér runs his studio “Hypersonic Studios” and advertising agency
Advertising agency
An advertising agency or ad agency is a service business dedicated to creating, planning and handling advertising for its clients. An ad agency is independent from the client and provides an outside point of view to the effort of selling the client's products or services...
in the heart of Gothenburg, Sweden
Gothenburg
Gothenburg is the second-largest city in Sweden and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated on the west coast of Sweden, the city proper has a population of 519,399, with 549,839 in the urban area and total of 937,015 inhabitants in the metropolitan area...
and has been working as a lecturer at the Skövde University College
Skövde University College
Skövde University College is a university college in Skövde, Sweden. It has approximately 11000 students. Lecturers and other educational staff number around 340, with approximately 100 persons in administration as of March 2007...
, teaching entrepreneurship and song writing.
Discography
Jet Circus - Step On It
Jet Circus - No Mercy For The Living Dead
Jet Circus - Look At Death Now
Jet Circus - Dance Or Die
Dance or Die (band)
Dance or Die is an electronic band, formed in 1988 by Andreas Goldacker and Gary Wagner in Berlin. Falgalas joined the band in 1993, first for live touring, later as full member. Chris L...
Leviticus - Setting Fire To The Earth
Veni Domine
Veni Domine
Veni Domine is a Christian progressive doom metal band. The band was founded in 1987 in Sollentuna, Sweden.Veni Domine combines down-tempo melodic heavy metal, symphonic metal and doom metal with occasional touches of gothic. Originally, the vocalist Fredrik Ohlsson represented operatic,...
- Tongues
Contamination - Paradoxx Remixed
Templar - Witch Hunt
Liberty ´N Justice - Soundtrack Of a Soul
Liberty ‘N Justice - Independence Day
Shaboom - The Race Is On
The Royal Years - Compilation
Motion Factory - Compilation
Royal At its Best - Compilation
Heavens Metal Collection 1 - Compilation
Righteous Metal II - Compilation
Ez Gomér Vegas Overdose (Work in progress)
Sources:
Angelic Warlord, Kerrang, Bridefan, No Life Til metal, Rad Rockers, Pahntom Tollbooth, Freewebs, Cross Rhythms, CCM