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Shadow Project
12+ albums
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For the Suffolk based death-rock band see The Shadow Project Formed in the early 1990s in Los Angeles, CA, United States by vocalist Rozz Williams, guitarist Eva O and keyboardist Paris. Their name comes from the atomic bomb testing project that left only ashes of people in shapes of what looked like their shadows. The history of Shadow Project is much intertwined with that of Christian Death Rozz Williams earlier band, particularly as the same lie up recorded albums under both bands names. In 1987 Rozz and Eva moved to San Francisco and were married. It was here that they started a new band that they called Shadow Project. The line up included Barry Galvin, David Glass and Johann Schumann (bass) and the band played at the Cover Wagon in San Francisco and The Club with No Name in Los Angeles. The name, Shadow Project, was taken from the tests in Hiroshima following the nuclear bomb, which left impressions or ‘shadows’, but no bodies. The band recorded a demo of 6 tracks although by this time Barry Galvin had departed leaving just the four of Rozz, Eva, Johann and David. This managed to find it's way out to some fans and became semi legendary. It would later see an official release almost 20 years later under the title 'The Original Shadow Project'. The recordings are much rawer and with less emphasis on a clean production as well as lacking the keyboards that graced the debut album. Rumors had been circulating about Rozz's death or his being detained in a mental asylum an
