MegaDriver

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MegaDriver
Background information
Origin	Brazil
Genre(s)	Heavy Metal
Website	http://www.megadriver.com.br/
Members
Nino MegaDriver - Guitars Ricardo - Guitars Daniel - Bass Jeff - Drums
Notable instrument(s)
Nino's Mega Drive Guitar

MegaDriver is a Brazilian heavy metal cover band. Their covers consist almost entirely of video game music, especially from the Genesis system (Mega Drive was the Genesis' name outside of North America). Because of this focus, the band's style has been termed "Game Metal".

The band considers itself to be a "non-profit independent project" and does not charge for its music. Their stated goal is to "pay homage to classic video games." To this end, they have made their entire repertoire available for free download at their website.

They have released two albums titled "ACTION METAL", "Press Start Button" as well as several singles. In addition, the band has released four full soundtracks for the "Metal MAME" project, which reprograms MAME images using heavy metal remixes of the games' original music.

1 Appearances in the media
2 Band members
3 Sources
4 External links

[edit] Appearances in the media

MegaDriver has made several appearances in the media, in both news articles and on music and tech channels (including G4 and MTV). MegaDriver also appeared at the Arena Gamer Experience 2006, performing some of their remixes of well-known game tracks.

[edit] Band members

The band is made up of four members according to their Myspace and official site, Nino, the guitarist, vocalist and frontman, Ricardo, the second guitar, Daniel, the bass player of the band and finally, Jeff, the drummer. There are were also a small number of other members, such as "The Butcher" who was once drummer, replaced by Jeff. This also applies to id9, who has left and been replaced by Daniel.

One point of interest is the lead guitarist Nino's instrument: a guitar made from an original Mega Drive.