The late-'80s side project of Queen's drummer Roger Taylor, the Cross were … Read Full Bio ↴The late-'80s side project of Queen's drummer Roger Taylor, the Cross were originally a classic rock band with dance influences, then abandoned the dance aspect of their sound and produced two straight forward rock albums. Although Taylor stated when the band formed in 1987, that the group would be a force to be reckoned with within six months, the group never took off in any market, except Germany, and broke up in 1993. With the conclusion of Queen's Magic Tour in 1986, Roger Taylor took the opportunity of a lack of activity on the Queen front to form his own band, which he named the Cross. Leaving his drum kit behind, Taylor assumed the duties of rhythm guitarist and lead vocalist for the group. Outside of recruiting Queen's tour keyboardist, Spike Edney, the rest of Taylor's new band were found through an ad placed in the music press. They were a group of unknowns, consisting of Clayton Moss (guitar), Peter Noone (bass guitar), and Josh Macrae (drums). With a group of songs already written, Taylor decided to record the first Cross album, Shove It, largely by himself and then tour with his new band. A hybrid of classic rock and dance influences, the album received some praise in the British music press but failed to get higher than the bottom of the album charts, as did it's three singles. In America, the album failed to chart and the group would not release another album there. The band resumed operations after the next Queen album with Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know, which was written by all the members in the band and embraced a classic rock sound. The lead single, "Power to Love," only dented the bottom of the British charts, while the album failed to chart at all. However, the band did continue to do well in Germany, and, with no record support in England, released their third album, Blue Rock, in that country only. After a final gig in 1993, the band called it a day. Taylor went on to record solo albums a
nd work with Queen, while Edney later helped found the S. A. S. Band, and Peter Noone joined Miss World.
Biography by Geoff Orens

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The Cross (더 크로스) is a korean rock band formed in 2003.

Members:

- Lee Si-Ha (이시하), 29/10/1982 - Composition, back vocals, piano, guitar, leader
- Kim Kyeong-Hyeon (김경현), 02/08/1982 - Main vocals

Former members:

- Kim Hyeok-Keon (김혁건), 12/04/1982 – Main vocals

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The Cross is also a Traditional Metal/Progressive Metal band with one Demo called Metal From Above. It was reissued through Steel Legacy(333 LP and 1000 CD)in 2007.

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the CROSS is also a Japanese duo, which consists of Daisuke and ショーガ (Syo-ga).
Website: http://thecross.web.fc2.com/index.html (in Japanese)

5)
The Cross is doom metal band with black metal influences from Brazil

Poe's Silence
The Cross Lyrics

"Listen to me!"
Said the demon, his hand upon my head
"There's a dreary region which slides from off
The columns of melancholy"

There's no quiet, nor silence
Strange poisonous flowers
Grey clouds rush through the horizon
A rusting and loud noise

There's no quiet, nor silence
It was night and the rain fell
On the ground it was blood
I stood in the morass

The rain fell upon my head
A crimson moon arose
My eyes fell upon a huge grey rock

It shows me some characters
Desolation, was the word
Upon the summit of the rock there stood a man
A king or a deity?
I saw sorrow, weariness
Disgust with makind and
A longing after solitude
The man now trembled in the solitude

I watched that man trembling
Trembling in the night
I watched that man trembling
In the solitude

In cursing I grew angry
The curse of silence
Thunders died away
Now the word is silence
Pale, that man tried to hear something

Nothing in an illimitable desert
Terrorized, that man ran away
I beheld him no more. Silence

The demon told me this fable
By my side in the shadow of the tomb
He laughs, I can't. He curses me
As the linx stares at him

"Past the morass, beyond the desert
That man still trembles in the dark
Fear is all that he deserves
Silence is the monsters released from the ark"

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Written by: The Cross

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