Years active 1994 - present Name Chris Sanders | Role Musical Artist Associated acts Nadir D'Priest | |
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Born July 4, 1984 (age 40)
Washington ( 1984-07-04 ) Genres Heavy metal
neo-classical metal
hard rock
blues rock
blues Instruments Guitar
Keyboards
Vocals Record labels Capitol Records, Polydor Records, Reprise Records, MCA Records Similar People Ken Mary, Northern Light Orchestra, Nadir D'Priest, Joe Holmes, Fifth Angel | ||
Chris Sanders is an American rock/metal guitarist and songwriter. He is best known as the lead guitarist for Britny Fox, Knight Fury, Lizzy Borden, LONDON with Nadir D'Priest, and the Northern Lights Orchestra. Sanders performs at music festivals and stadium size concert events and tours internationally.
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D'Priest 2007
Before joining Lizzy Borden, Sanders joined forces with London frontman Nadir D'Priest. Critics compared Sanders playing style to the late Randy Rhoads saying "I was reminded of another young guitarist I once had the pleasure of seeing ...; The guitarist was none other than Randy Rhoads".
Lizzy Borden 2007-2010
Sanders joined the band Lizzy Borden in 2007, He toured with Lizzy Borden on their U.S./E.U. tours which included billings at some rock & heavy-metal music festivals such as Rocklahoma(U.S.), KobetaSonik (Spain), The Sweden Rock Festival (Sweden), Bang Your Head (Germany) June 2008, and Keep It True (Germany). He also appears in the music video for "Under Your Skin" performing both piano and guitar. His final show with the band was in June 2010 to focus full-time on his own project Knight Fury with bassist David Ellefson of Megadeth and drummer Ken Mary of Alice Cooper.
Northern Light Orchestra 2009
In 2009 Chris Sanders joined other musicians to record with the Trans-Siberian Orchestra inspired Northern Light Orchestra contributing as lead guitarist on the song "I Feel the Warmth".
Knight Fury 2011-present
Knight Fury was created by Chris Sanders in 2011. The band is known for being versatile and fitting somewhere in the Hard Rock/Heavy Metal/Power Metal theme. It was noted as a super group with all star members David Ellefson (Megadeth) and Ken Mary (Alice Cooper, Impellateri, Fifth Angel) and William King on Vocals.
In 2011 their debut album "Time to Rock" was released world wide. "Time to Rock" album was released in Europe by German Label Pure Steel Records.
In 2012 Knight Fury recorded 2 additional bonus tracks for the Japan market released from Rubicon Music.