BOB KATSIONIS – new album “Amadeus Street Warrior” – A 16-bit retro soundtrack album ARTIST: Bob Katsionis ALBUM: Amadeus Street Warrior STREET DATE: July 3rd 2020 LABEL: Symmetric Records FORMAT: Digital, Digipak CD & Audio Cassette Greek musician, producer, director and label owner of Symmetric Records, Bob Katsionis is widely known by his 15 years keyboard and guitar duty with Firewind, 5 albums with Amor/Hard rockers Outloud, 2 albums with German power metallers Serious Black, co-writer for Kamelot and producer for more than 50 albums and 160 video clips since 2002. After his 5 instrumental solo albums, and following his departure from Firewind, he comes back with something… completely different: a retro soundtrack to a fictional 16-bit video game that could have been released in the glorious days of Amiga, Sega Master System, Commodore 64 and Nintendo days! “Amadeus Street Warrior” was conceived, performed, and recorded by Bob on six days (!) during the holiday season of 2019.
Bob Katsionis is the rhythm guitarist and keyboard player for the heavy metal/power metal bands Outloud, and Serious Black; until recently he was part of Firewind but as of 2020 he has since left due to personal reasons. He is considered to be Greece’s most successful rock/metal keyboard player, being the only musician to ever win the same category “Best Keyboardist” in Greek Metal Hammer’s Annual Readers’ Polls for 5 years in a row (2006–2011). He is founder of Progressive Vision Group, a videoclip making company, which has produced more than 90 videos for rock and metal artists since 2002.