The Battle of the Bands
The Battle of the Bands is an EP by the German punk band Die Toten Hosen.
The songs are sung under different aliases, which makes it kind of a" battle of the bands".
The EP was re-released remastered as whole on the 2007 re-release of" Unter falscher Flagge".
Sean Hennesy
Sean Robert Hennesy is a guitarist for the bands Candlebox, Royal Bliss, and The Gracious Few.
He has previously played for the bands The Hiwatts and The Kings Royal.
Paul Peterson
Paul Joseph Peterson (born October 18, 1964), also known as St. Paul Peterson, is a singer and musician best known for his memberships in the bands The Family and The Time.
Valvomo
Valvomo is a band from Helsinki, Finland.
They became widely known in the summer of 2006 with their song" Mikä kes ä Mikä kesä" was one of the most airplayed songs in Finnish summer 2006.
Valvomo's debut album" Heitä Ensimmäinen Kivi", was released in August 2006.
The Black Mages
The Black Mages were a Japanese instrumental rock band formed in 2002 by Nobuo Uematsu, Kenichiro Fukui and Tsuyoshi Sekito, who were three video game composers for Square Enix.
The band arranged Uematsu's" Final Fantasy" video game series- based compositions in a hard rock style often similar to progressive metal, achieved with the additional use of synthesizers.
Since its inception, the band had expanded to six members with the addition of Keiji Kawamori, Michio Okamiya and Arata Hanyuda.
In August 2010, Uematsu announced the band had been disbanded, but he would continue to perform rock arrangements of his music as a part of another similar band, known as the Earthbound Papas.
The band released three studio albums.
Their first was released eponymously as" The Black Mages" in 2003, and contained arrangements of" Final Fantasy" battle themes.
The second album," The Black Mages II: The Skies Above", was released in 2004 and featured additional pieces besides battle themes including the group's first original song," Blue Blast~ Winning the Rainbow", which was created for Japanese K-1 fighter Takehiro Murahama.
The third album," The Black Mages III: Darkness and Starlight", was released in 2008.
Music from the group has also appeared in other albums, including one track in" Dark Chronicle Premium Arrange", an album of arranged music from the video game" Dark Chronicle", a piece in the animated film" Final Fantasy VII Advent Children" and its corresponding soundtrack album, and one track on" Final Fantasy III Original Soundtrack", the soundtrack album for the Nintendo DS version of" Final Fantasy III".
The Black Mages did not tour as a band, but performed several concerts to promote their album releases.
For their first album they performed in Shibuya and Kanagawa, Japan in 2003 and later released a live video of the first concert on DVD exclusively to Uematsu fanclub members.
They repeated this for the release of their second album, performing in Kawasaki and Osaka, Japan in 2005 and similarly released on DVD to fanclub members.
The third album saw a performance in Yokohama, Japan in 2008; a DVD of the show was released commercially in March 2009.
In addition to these concerts, The Black Mages made live appearances at two" Final Fantasy" concerts, and Voices- Music from Final Fantasy, as well as another video game music event, Extra: Hyper Game Music Event 2007.
Geoff Dugmore
Geoff Dugmore (born 12 April 1960) is a Scottish drummer, musical director and producer.
He was a member of the bands The Europeans and Wildlife.
Emma Pollock
Emma Pollock( born 20 December 1972) is a Scottish singer- songwriter, musician, and a founding member of the bands
The Delgados, The Burns Unit and The Fruit Tree Foundation.
The Black Ghosts
The Black Ghosts are an English electronic music duo composed of Theo Keating and Simon William Lord, formed in 2006.
They are currently signed to Southern Fried Records in the UK and IAMSOUND Records in North America.
Keating and Lord had previously been in the bands The Wiseguys and Simian respectively.
Keating is well known for his other recording synonyms Touche and Fake Blood.
Refuge (EP)
Refuge is an EP by the German heavy metal band Rage, released in 1994.
This EP contains the song" Refuge" and covers of the bands
The Police, The Troggs and The Mission.
Myke Scavone
Myke Rocco Scavone( born 1949) is an American harmonica player and vocalist best known for his work with the bands the Doughboys and Ram Jam.

Question: Did the bands The Black Mages and Valvomo, originate from the same country?
Answer: no