Due to Alex Zandretta's unexpected heatlh crisis, Nita's dropped the quest for Cycle Of Pain and joined the metal band, Tapping Ninja in '2004...
Cycle Of Pain
Los Angeles County... though Cycle Of Pain (Karma) is new on the scene, they are not new to the music industry. One thing you can't dub them, is not being familiar with their art. Coming from the land of hard rock haven, Cycle Of Pain's musicians are seasoned professionals with some having played in bands with members of Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne, Kiss, Quiet Riot, Mercyful Fate, Impellitteri, Dio, Wasp, Whitesnake, Ted Nugent and the list goes on.
Singing lead for Cycle Of Pain, veteran hard rocker, "Nita Neets," (nickname) started singing in bands at sixteen and had already been in a couple original bands when she fronted Final Notice for 7 years, before the first disbanding in 1987. Bowing out throughout the 90's regrouping, a prior accident left her disabled with back surgery and several relapses, though finally recovering after a long absence.
Back to collaborate with Nita are several of Final Notice's original members, including co-founder, Edgar Paul Allen, who was the drummer and backup vocalist. Paul is currently living in Sweden and is Virus 7's frontman with the members of the legendary, Mercyful Fate and King Diamond, lead guitarist Hank Shermann and drummer, Bjarne T. Holm. Edgar Paul Allen will sing a duet with Nita and record on a few drum tracks and vocals. Edgar Paul Allen's videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/epaulallen7
On keyboards is Phil Wolfe, who is also an ex-Final Notice member. Phil's played, toured or filmed videos with some of the members of the recognized bands listed above and many more. Phil also works with his beautiful wife, Maria Glass in the rock band, Glass Wolfe, and stays busy recording with various artist in his recording studio.
The guitarist for Cycle Of Pain are Alex Zandretta (mp3.com/Terebelam) and Chris Brungardt (mp3.com/ChopsFromHell). Alex Zandretta's video "Vampire Site" and other songs with Alexis Machine and Terebelam, that have placed 13 Top-40 slots in Goth metal in one day, plus other categories on MP3.com. Alex's love for horror movies consumes a lot of his writing.
Besides being a virtuoso guitarist endorsed by Seymour Duncan; Chris Brundgardt is also the owner of ChopsFromHell.com. Chris's talent can be categorized with some of the best guitar shredders in the world and they come together and offer instructional videos, articles and much more on ChopFromHell.com.
Harry "Hare" Butler is a guitar player turned bass, who first got his start studying under Steely Dan's, Michael Fletch. Hare was formally endorsed by Risson and managed by Dave Duncan of Scotty Bros. Hare's played with punk rocker, Rickk Agnew (Social Distortion, Adolscents) in Yard Sale as a guitarist and with many other known players.
