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Artist
Aleš Brichta
12+ albums
hard rockrockCzechheavy metalczech rock
about
Aleš Brichta was born in 1959 in Prague. He had played in many bands - Kentaur, Projektil, Apad. In 1982 was formed a legend called Arakain. Besides singing, composing and writing lyrics for Arakain, Brichta acted as their manager and in early years of bands existence also as guitarist and bass guitarist. He had to put on with all antipathy and censorship brought by the communistic regime which wasn't willing to accept most of stuff related to heavy metal and such stuff. Aleš Brichta became a kind of patron of all czechoslovak metal/hard rock fans then. Snippets of his lyrics appeared also on things like nuptial announcements although it was still illegal to support the underground scene. Brichta helped to organise many metal concert. Probably because of this Arakain was finally banned. Despite this fact he carried the band at least on Polish festivals and in Russia and Hungary. Their first album Thrash The Trash was released in 1990, after revolution. Besides performing with his main band Arakain he worked on other projects - Hattrick and Zemětřesení. Aleš also sung in rock czech version of opera Jesus Christ Superstar and also produced an ice musical Mrazík (The Iceman / Морозко) and albums of bands like Doga and Škwor. In 1992 he was voted the best czech singer in the enquiry Černá vrána. In 1994, when Arakain was in little pause, he has started his solo carrer and recorded first solo album Růže pro Algernon. He sung in Arakain and simultaneously has worked on s
