Mark Nawara

Located in Phoenix, AZ, but originally from Chicago, Tag Nawara is really a producer, label owner, and A&R man that has made rock and hard rock and roll his primary concentrate. Nawara offers eclectic tastes with regards to headbanger music; over time, he has created from ’80s locks metallic and pop-metal to alternate metal, thrash metallic, death metallic/black metallic, and metalcore. The Windy Town native was not afraid to improve with the changing times; although he was creating locks rings in the past due ’80s and early ’90s, Nawara offers favored a far more alternative-friendly strategy as the mind of Pavement Music and, recently, the Phoenix, AZ-based Crash Music. Nawara, who was simply born and elevated within the Windy Town, experienced the music business within the ’80s. The very first recording he created was Gemstone Rexx’s Land from the Damned, which Isle released in 1986. Gemstone Rexx parted business with Isle from then on, but Nawara’s romantic relationship with the music group continuing when, in 1989, he became chief executive of Crimson Light Information — a little independent metallic/hard rock and roll label which was located in the Chicago suburb of Des Plaines, IL. Nawara brought Gemstone Rexx to Crimson Light, as well as the additional metallic and hard rock and roll bands he worked well at that business included Joker, Manikin Laff, and Vishüsgrûv. When Crimson Light got began, pop-metal, locks metallic, and ’80s-design hard rock and roll were still large, and Nawara proceeded to go after that marketplace. However in 1992-1993, there is a significant upheaval within the rock and roll globe. When Nirvana and Pearl Jam strike the industrial jackpot, alternative rock and roll and grunge became mainstream — and suddenly, ’80s-design headbangers suddenly went of vogue. MTV dropped desire for pop-metal and ’80s-design hard rock and roll, which was poor news for most of Crimson Light’s performers. But Nawara, being truly a pragmatist, held his ears open up and didn’t enable himself to become pigeonholed — headbanger music continued to be his focus, however the term headbanger music can, needless to say, refer to an extremely wide selection of performers (anyone from Kiss to Slayer to Trend Against the device). In 1993, Nawara remaining Crimson Light (which consequently folded) because of creative differences along with his then-partner and founded his personal label, Pavement Music, which experienced a developing/distribution cope with Zoo/BMG. Pavement’s alternative-friendly roster included Crowbar and L.U.N.G.S., amongst others. Initially, Nawara went Pavement from your Windy Town, however in 1996, he relocated to Phoenix for just two factors: he wished to be nearer to LA, where he was performing a large amount of business, and he wished to get away from Chicago’s notoriously chilly winters. Pavement’s romantic relationship with Zoo/BMG lasted four and half years, but finished when BMG made a decision to sell Zoo in the past due ’90s. After that, in 2001, Nawara founded another label, Crash Music, whose signings possess ranged from Dianno (a music group led by previous Iron Maiden vocalist Paul Di’Anno) to thrash combo King’s Bad to death metallic/black functions like Malevolent Creation and Unearthly (a Brazilian music group). Crash in addition has reunited Nawara with Gemstone Rexx, that has up to date its sound and be more substitute metal-minded in the first 2000s.