Well, we're done. This is my final entry for Music A to Z Challenge #Z by 
- 2 artists or bands starting with the letter Z:
1) Земфира (Zemfira)
Style: Rock / Alternative Rock
Country: Russia
Her full name is Земфира Талгатовна Рамазанова (Zemfira Talgatovna Ramazanova) and she is a rock singer from Ufa, in Russia who's been active and very popular in Russia since 1998. She performs under the stage name of Земфира (Zemfira).
She's not very known in the West even though she already toured in the USA. Her discography includes 10 albums already, 3 of which are live albums.
Her songs are quite melodic and her voice is very soothing... I hope you can appreciate it even without understanding the lyrics. Here's the videoclip for the song Искала (I Was Looking For):
2) Zombina and the Skeletones
Style: Punk / Rock
Country: UK
This band's sound is just as weird as its name. So weird that they're classified as a Horror Punk Band which is a musical style that combines Punk / Rock with lyrics, themes and visual imagery influenced by horror movies.
Their songs are usually fast paced and quite short. They have some tracks that are just a little over a minute in length.
The band was formed by Zombina Venus Hatchett, the lead vocalist and Doc Horror, who plays Guitar and Bass and also does some Vocals.
The rest of the band performs under equally strange nicknames: we've got Doctor Auculus on the Guitar, Keyboards and Vocals, Kal K'Thulu as the Bass player, X-Ray Speck on the Saxophone and Ben Digo on the Drums. I kid you not. 😂
The track I've picked is probably one of the easiest to listen to if you're not a hardcore fan of the genre... and it's called Nobody Likes You (When You're Dead):
I hope you have liked these choices for my final entry in this challenge. 😁
If you want to join the challenge, visit the announcement post, here: Music A to Z Challenge #Z and use the tag #a-zmusic.
See my previous entries here:
- A) The Agonist & Arch Enemy / Atakama & Amely Sky [Metal]
- B) Багира & Blind Ivy [Metal]
- C) Conquer Divide & Cripper [Metal]
- D) Dark Tranquility & Dead Sara [Metal / Rock]
- E) Eths & Expellow [Metal]
- F) Fine Fine Titans & Frantic Amber [Metal]
- G) Green Jellÿ & GWAR [Comedy Rock / Comedy Metal]
- H) Hiromi Uehara & Haggard [Jazz / Metal]
- I) In Evil Hour & Infected Rain [Punk / Metal]
- J) Jinjer & Joss Stone [Metal / Soul]
- K) Koalas Desperados & Katzenjammer [Reggae / Hip-Hop / World Music / Folk Rock]
- L) LaScala & Louna [Rock / Alternative Rock / Fusion]
- M - Part 1) Mayra Andrade & Mariana Aydar [World Music / Popular Brazilian Music]
- M - Part 2) Moonspell & Mortad [Metal]
- N - Part 1) Nneka & Norah Jones [Reggae / Soul / R&B / Jazz]
- N - Part 2) Nightwish & Nevermore [Metal]
- O) Onuka & Otep [Electro-Folk / Metal]
- P) Patricia Barber, Pink Freud & PJ Harvey [Jazz / Electro-Jazz / Rock]
- Q) Queen Ifrica & Quique Neira [Reggae]
- R) Rodrigo y Gabriela, Room Eleven & Rage of Light [Rock / Flamenco / Jazz / Metal]
- S) Spoil Engine & Straight Line Stitch [Metal]
- T) Theatre of Tragedy & Tracktor Bowling [Metal]
- U) Ursula Rucker & Unleash The Archers [Spoken Word / Metal]
- V) Veridia & Värttinä [Rock / Folk]
- W) Within Temptation & Walls of Jericho [Metal]
- X) Xana & Xandria [Rock / Metal]
- Y) Yngwie Malmsteen & You+Me [Metal / Folk]