Jiří Valter,Christian Wachter
''Root''. ''Hoffen auf eine rosigere Zukunft''
In: ''Legacy'', no. 76, p. 158f. (born 6 February 1952) better known as Big Boss, is the vocalist for the Czech

black metal Black metal is an extreme metal, extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include Tempo#Beats per minute, fast tempos, a Screaming (music)#Black metal, shrieking vocal style, heavily distorted Electric guitar, guitars played with tr ...

band

Root In vascular plants, the roots are the plant organ, organs of a plant that are modified to provide anchorage for the plant and take in water and nutrients into the plant body, which allows plants to grow taller and faster. They are most often bel ...

, the

progressive metal Progressive metal (often shortened to prog metal) is a broad fusion music genre melding heavy metal music, heavy metal and progressive rock, combining the loud "aggression" and amplified electric guitar, guitar-driven sound of the former with t ...

band Equirhodont, and Big Boss Band, which mainly performs ballads.

Biography

Valter was born in

Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia ( ; Czech language, Czech and , ''Česko-Slovensko'') was a landlocked country in Central Europe, created in 1918, when it declared its independence from Austria-Hungary. In 1938, after the Munich Agreement, the Sudetenland beca ...

in 1952 to pianist and professor Milan Valter.Maciek
''Roots Of Evil''
. He started out as a blues vocalist before moving on to hard rock and eventually metal. According to him, " l these styles are mixed, either in some of my songs or singing. Mostly in my singing".Chris D.
''Big Boss (Root) Interviewed''
21 December 2011, accessed on 20 December 2012. In late 1987, he founded the black metal band

together with guitarist Blackie.''Root biography''
, accessed on 16 December 2012. Big Boss launched his side project Equirhodont with Root bandmates Ashok and Igor in 2002. In addition to his activities with these two bands, he has also recorded four solo albums.

Beliefs

Valter founded the Czech branch of the

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in 1991. He claims to have been appointed a High Priest in the Church of Satan by Anton LaVey. He still lives his life according to

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but delegated the branch's leadership to younger members around 2004 and now believes that "everything that smells of organization is shit". Rumours have frequently circulated about him being

gay ''Gay'' is a term that primarily refers to a homosexual person or the trait of being homosexual. The term originally meant 'carefree', 'cheerful', or 'bright and showy'. While scant usage referring to male homosexuality dates to the late ...

. He has denied this and stated: "...if they say that I'm homosexual, it is their problem, not mine. Perhaps it is their wishful thinking. Perhaps when they masturbate, they fantasise about me and I'm an unattainable idol for them... really I don't know."

Discography

with Root

* ''7 černých jezdců / 666'' (single, 1990) * '' Zjevení'' (1990) * '' Hell Symphony'' (1991) * ''The Revelation'' (1991) * '' The Temple in the Underworld'' (1992) * ''

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'' (1996) * '' The Book'' (1999) * ''Black Seal'' (2001) * ''Dema'' (2002) * ''Madness of the Graves'' (2003) * ''Casilda'' (2006) * ''Daemon viam invenient'' (2007) * '' Heritage of Satan'' (2011) * ''Viginti Quinque Annis in Scaena'' (2013) * ''

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'' (2016)

with Equirhodont

* ''Grandiose Magus'' (2003) * ''Black Crystal'' (2004)

Solo

* ''Q7'' (1994) * ''Belial's Wind'' (1998) * ''Doomy Ballads'' (2009) * ''Sbírka černých růží'' (2017)

Selected guest performances

* "At the Image of Pain" ''

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'' (

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, 2006) * "Oaken Dragons" and "The Thrall and the Master" '' The Journeys and Experiences of Death'' ( Helheim, 2006) * "Jáma pekel" ( Master's Hammer cover) ''

Ezkaton ''Ezkaton'' is the sixth EP by Polish extreme metal band Behemoth. It was released in North America through Metal Blade Records on 11 November 2008, and in Europe through Regain Records on 20 November 2008. The EP features seven tracks, includi ...

'' (

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, 2008)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Big Boss 1952 births Living people Czech Satanists 20th-century Czech male singers Czech heavy metal singers Black metal singers Czech drummers 21st-century Czech male singers