Band:

Mägo De Oz

BiografieMAGO DE OZ is one of the most popular original bands from Madrid. Their creative and distinctive blend of Heavy Metal and Celtic styles, plus dynamic in-your-face performances, have won them acclaim from both fans and press. Playing to sold-out audiences throughout Spain and South America, they are consistently found on the Top 10 Charts.

Their latest album ´Finis Terra´, released May 2000, went GOLD before the year ended.

Musically, MAGO DE OZ manage to offer all to the best. ´Finis Terra" starts off with an interesting bagpipe and flute intro, followed by "Satania" kick-starting the album with thundering double-bass and solo-violin, and the electric guitars giving you the Power Metal you desire. The title song, ´Finisterra´ has all the creative guns blazing during 16 minutes of acoustic guitars, piano, violin, flute, and even an accordion.

Drummer Txus formed MAGO DE OZ in the mid 80´s. The band´s early popularity was apparent as they made the 1992 finals of the "Villa de Madrid" Rock Contest. They released their first album in 1994, ´Mago de Oz´, produced by Txus and Alberto Plaza. The band toured Spain, and earned the title "Best New Rock Band of 1995".

After their successful tour, the band started recording their second album. The Rock Opera "Jesus de Chamberi", produced by Alberto Plaza and Mago de Oz, was released in 1996 by their current label, Locomotive Music. This was followed by another tour throughout Spain, playing to sold-out audiences.

MAGO DE OZ returned to the studio in 1997 to revisit their first album. Produced by G. Sider, the result is a more polished sound. Their third tour included an appearance at the Sala Canciller in Madrid, playing to a packed audience. Due to popular demand, this album was re-released in its re-mastered format in 1999.

Their third album, "La Leyenda de la Mancha", was released in 1998. Influenced by Cervantes´ Quixote, this innovative album showcases powerful guitar riffs, Celtic melodies of bagpipes, flute and violin, and a great production.

The promotional tour for this album, "Riiiichaal!´ was MAGO DE OZ´s largest. This included a sold-out performance of 3,000 at the La Riviera concert hall where hundreds of fans were left outside unable to enter. They then played for a crowd of 25,000 at the Vina Rock Festival. During 1999, the band played more than 115 performances, earning them the title of "hardest working Spanish band".

MAGO DE OZ continues to set the pace for the popular resurgence of Spanish Heavy Metal. They have proudly represented Spain at the Eurometal Festival, playing with bands such as GAMMA RAY, STRATOVARIOUS, and ANGRA.

You can check out MAGO DE OZ in their video, "Resacosix en Hispania". This 70-minute video includes a CD-single. It showcases the 10-year span of their career, including previously unreleased footage, live performances, and interviews. See for yourself why MAGO DE OZ are Spain´s hottest band!

Mägo de Oz are: Jose (Vocal and keyboard), Mohamed (Violín), Carlos (Guitar), Frank (Guitar), Salva (Bass) and Txus (Drum).



The tour of this album ´La Leyenda de la Mancha´ finished in Zaragoza (Columbus Day), closing their longest tour, with more than 120 shows in this year and showing that they are the Spanish band, inside all musical styles, that has worked more in the last year.



The question after this was obvious, MÄGO DE OZ has opened the way to the conceptual albums, also called Opera Rock, in this decade:

What will be the new MÄGO DE OZ album about?


2000, May 19th was released the new album called ´Finis Terra´. This is a double album, recorded in studio, with 20 tracks, that is about a story of a travelling going across the Camino de Santiago, but it´s seen under a man in the future point of view that finds a CDROM in the year 2199 in which a lot of adventures are told about this travelling that goes across the camino in the XVII century.

´Finis Terra´ has been 8 consecutive weeks in the AFIVE lists around the number 20 of the list. And their single �Fiesta Pagana� entered directly in the number 16 of the sales AFIVE list. A single of a Spanish Rock band was in this list for ages. Later, the band had a re-entry in which stayed more than 20 weeks.

Their video �Fiesta Pagana� has been played in all national and local Spanish radio stations also in the musical channels via satellite.

A lot of shows during the whole year, emphasizing Rock Machina Festival celebrated in July in Castellón, where they were headliner, playing with international famous bands like METALIUM, RUNNING WILD, VIRGIN STEEL, EDGUY, AT VANCE, LABYRINTH,...

In October 2000, they released a new single �El Que Quiera Entender... Que Entienda�. It was the first time that a rock band in Spain faces up the homosexuality in their lyrics. Also it´s included a completely cover version of the song �Dust In The Wind� (KANSAS), that in a magisterial way was adapted to Spanish. Moreover this single (as a present), it was included a new video clip where they tell about their new projects with some images from the tour �Santiago y Vuelva España Tour�. This single raised the number 5 in the single AFIVE lists.

Their tireless tour will go on during two years and is going through Spain, filling big venues, the most of the times of more than 2000 people. Also MÄGO DE OZ is doing their first inclusions in new countries where they begin to be known their adventures and where they have got an amazing and big success, it´s Mexico case (with two tours), Venezuela, Portugal, Germany (Festivals like Wacken Open Air 2001 and Bang Your Head 2002).

MÄGO DE OZ exhausting sucsess with ´Finis Terra´ has got platinum disc in Spain. To support this event, they released a new single �La Danza del Fuego�, joined to a comic of the band and with a cover version of �Man On The Silver Mountain� (RAINBOW) singed a duet with the German female vocalist Doro (ex WARLOCK).

MÄGO DE OZ has recorded a big part of their shows of their last tour, which will be the songs that will be included in their double new album called ´Fölktergeist´, to be released soon, where they will collect their best songs and where it´s also recorded the devoted audience that go with them. With this new album, MÄGO DE OZ will do a 5 months tour that we´ll carry them all over the world.

Quelle: http://www.locomotivemusic.netDiscografie1994 Mägo De Oz

1996 Jesús De Chamberí

1997 La Leyenda De La Mancha

2000 Finsterra 2-CD

2002 Fölktergeist Live-2CD

2003 A Casa Da Rock DVD

2003 Gaia

2004 Belfast

2005 Madrd Las Ventas Live-2CD

2005 Gaia II, La Voz Dormida

2006 Rarezas

2008 La Ciudad De Los Arboles


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Interviews

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Donnerstag 23.10.2003
Die spanischen Folk-Metaller von MÄGO DE OZ sind hierzulande trotz einiger hervorragender Alben nicht über den Insidertipp hinausgekommen. Die Veröffentlichung der neuen Scheibe "Gaia" nimmt METAL-INSIDE.de mal zum Anlass ein paar Fragen an die Jungs von der iberischen Halbinsel zu richten.

Reviews

A Costa Da Rock - Cover
In Spanien ist diese Big-Band so was eine Institution. Die Fans flippen regelrecht aus, und die großen Emotionen setzen die Jungs auch auf dieser Doppel-DVD frei.
Belfast - Cover
Die spanischen Stars sind mir irgendwie angenehm, auch wenn ich diesen epischen Power-Metal trotz der Folk-Elemente eigentlich nicht mag.
Fölktergeist (Live) - Cover
Da stellen sich doch gleich mehrer Fragen... MÄGO DE OZ kommen aus Spanien, aber woher kommt das "ä" in ihrem Namen? Und das "ö" im Titel ihres Livealbums "Fölktergeist?
TIPP
Gaia - Cover
Die Spanier von MÄGO DE OZ sind recht fleißige Leutchen, servieren sie uns doch innerhalb von 14 Monaten schon das dritte Werk.
TIPP
La Ciudad De Los Arboles - Cover
In ihrer spanischen Heimat bereits institutioneller megaerfolgreicher Kult, in Lateinamerika gefeiert und Live unbestritten eine der Besten werden MÄGO DE OZ hierzulande immer noch als Insidertipp gef

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