User:Crossbonesalbania/sandbox

Members:

Ols Ballta - vocals Klod Shehu - guitars/bass Theo Napoloni - drums Ben Turku – guitars

Discography:

Alive CD Single – Released April 2015 Toxic Waste - Released April 2015 Best of 1998-2013 Days Of Rage 1997 Full length studio album

Crossbones were founded in 1996 in Tirana the capital city of Albania. First rehearsals took place in a friend’s house basement...hell yeah! ...and they hit the road to rock n roll with powerful explosive vocals, heavy guitar riffs and breathtaking drums.

The first members were Olsi BALLTA (founder/vocals) and Arbi XHELO (co-founder/guitar),then Klodi SHEHU (guitar) and Alban MALE (drums & keyboards) joined the band and till 1998 they always had session bass players. At this time Fatjon GJASHTA joined the band as a bass player till 2000 when he left the band and moved to USA.

The band had no name until Ols (vocals) opened an Albanian-English dictionary and picked the first word of a random page…and it was CROSSBONES (1996).

Crossbones is the 1-st Albanian (AL) rock band releasing an album in CD, called "Days Of Rage" in 1997. It was recorded in a home studio and at that time the quality of sound was not so important more than the fact that Crossbones were entering in the Albanian rock music history as the first band ever recording and producing an album on CD of course with a little help for the financial issues.

Crossbones are part of "Era e ndryshimit" history of rock bands in Albania, book by Kozeta Kurti, Published in 2010. They are definitely the most recognized band in the Albanian (AL) rock/metal scene. Crossbones performed live in several concerts and rock festivals in Tirana the capital of Albania, Durres city, Thessaloniki, Skopje /Macedonia, Ulcinj / Montenegro and the most important ones so far are:

Opening Act for Rotting Christ 26.12.2015 RockStock Music Festival - 26.10.2015 Telekom City Rock Concert July 25 2015 Mother Tresa Square Tirana 8Ball Club Thessaloniki, Greece April 24 2015 BokLand April, 2015 Tirana/Albania Top Show Magazine March 6, 2015 Tirana/Albania Rockstock February 25, 2015 Tirana/Albania BokLand February 6, 2015 Tirana/Albania Rockstock Festival June 2014 Tirana/Albania Rockstock April 30, 2014 Tirana/Albania FESTON October 2013 Tirana/Albania TOP FEST 1/2/4/6/12 – Nomination for best rock Top Fest 1/12 Tirana/Albania Steel Wings Anniversary Moto meeting –2012/2013/2014 Tirana/Albania Moto meeting Ulcinj/Montenegro – June 8, 2012 ROCK THE BLOCK – May 12, 2012 Tirana/Albania Tribute Metallica 30-th Anniversary, December 28, 2011 Tirana/Albania Black Box – September 16, 2011 Fine Arts Academy, Tirana/Albania Rock the Block 2009 Tirana/Albania Nata e Bardhe November 29,2008 Tirana/Albania Nata e Bardhe November 29, 2007 Tirana/Albania What’s Up Fest –“NENE TEREZA” Square -Tirana/Albania October 5, 2007 Top Fest Rock Marathon - Tirana/Albania 2005 “Mjaft” Fest – Durres 2004 Radio Rock Fest - Tirana/Albania 2004 Underground Music Festival-Skopje /Macedonia 17-19 December 1999 Tirana Rock Festival 1996 (Tirana – Albania)

Crossbones featured in Maximum Rock n Roll magazine Los Angeles 2000.

Unsigned band so far. Looking for a label. Albania does not provide a rock music industry so the only way so far, is to look in other countries.

With 20 years in the Albanian rock/metal scene, it’s time to expand the boundaries.