Evan K

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Evan K ( Evangelos Koukoularis , born May 27, 1994 in Hamburg ) is a German-Greek guitarist and songwriter . He is the lead guitarist of the German power metal band Mystic Prophecy , the dark rock band Enemy Inside and ex-guitarist of the industrial metal / death metal band Cypecore . Evan K still appears with the symphonic metal band Exit Eden . He is also active as a solo artist, session musician and producer in different types of music from pop to rock and metal.

Life

Evan K started taking electric guitar lessons at the age of eleven and was inspired by great hard rock bands like Scorpions , Deep Purple , Led Zeppelin , Whitesnake . Five years later he was able to complete the E-Guitar & Jazz Harmony Program at Berklee College Of Music in Athens. At the age of 19 he broke off his German studies in Athens and began to study guitar and pop music at the Popakademie Baden-Württemberg in Mannheim. He was one of four guitarists selected for the Pop Academy each year.

In 2015 Evan K joined the industrial / death metal band Cypecore . In January 2016, Cypecore released their third album Identity with Evan K in the cast. In July 2016 Evan K released his debut solo album Blue Lightning in Europe and Japan, with Fabio Lione ( Rhapsody of Fire , Angra , Vision Divine ) and Bob Katsionis ( Firewind , Serious Black , Outloud ), Markus Johansson (4ARM, Sylencer , THEM ), Jimmy Pitts ( Marco Minnemann , Christian Münzner ) appeared as “Special Guests”.

In 2017, Evan K guitars and bass played for the debut album Rhapsody In Black from Exit Eden , a symphonic metal group consisting of the singers Amanda Somerville is, Anna Brunner, Marina La Torraca and Clementine Delauney. Mainly metal and rock versions of well-known songs from the last decades are played. The album reached number 15 in the German album charts.

In August 2017, Evan K was announced as the new lead guitarist of the German power metal band Mystic Prophecy . At the end of 2017, Evan K and singer Nastassja Giulia founded the dark metal band Enemy Inside ".

Discography

Evan

with Enemy Inside

with Mystic Prophecy

with Exit Eden

with Cypecore

  • Identity, 2016

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eike Cramer: Sturm, Fußball, Amon Amarth: The Saturday at With Full Force 2016 - Metal Hammer . July 3, 2016. Retrieved July 23, 2016.
  2. ↑ Evan - Blue Lightning | CD review | CD review | DVD review - whiskey-soda.de | Music magazine for metal, rock, gothic, indie, punk, HC, EMO and alternative music . July 15, 2016. Archived from the original on July 17, 2016. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 23, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.whiskey-soda.de
  3. ↑ Do you already know ... EVAN? | Story / Article - whiskey-soda.de | Music magazine for metal, rock, gothic, indie, punk, HC, EMO and alternative music . Archived from the original on August 17, 2016. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 23, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.whiskey-soda.de
  4. ↑ Evan - Blue Lightning - Reviews . July 13, 2016. Retrieved July 23, 2016.
  5. ↑ Lords of Metal ezine . Retrieved July 23, 2016.
  6. ↑ Review: Evan - Blue Lightning - FC Metal Recordings - Release: 15-07-2016 - www.LiveReviewer.com . June 29, 2016. Retrieved July 23, 2016.
  7. ↑ Blue Lightning | metalinside . Retrieved July 23, 2016.
  8. ↑ Rock 'N' Roll Monuments - EVAN - Blue Lightning (FC METAL RECORDINGS) . June 22, 2016. Retrieved July 23, 2016.
  9. ↑ Steffen Hung: Exit Eden - Rhapsodies In Black - swisscharts.com. Retrieved August 15, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Rockpages Mystic Prophecy: Evan K - Mystic Prophecy . Retrieved August 23, 2017.
  11. ↑ ffm-rock.de | Enemy Inside announce debut album Phoenix
  12. ↑ powerofmetal.dk | Debut album Phoenix on Rock Of Angels Records
personal data
SURNAME K, Evan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Koukoularis, Evangelos (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Greek guitarist and songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1994
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg