Mark Cross (musician)

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Mark Cross
Mark Cross
Background information
Instruments	Drum kit
Formerly of	Metalium, Helloween, Kingdom Come, Firewind
Website	mcross.com

Mark Cross is an English hard rock and heavy metal drummer. He has played in many bands in his career and is currently based in London, England. Mark recorded in 1992 an album with Greek singer/songwriter Michalis Rakintzis named "Etsi Maresei" featuring also Deep Purple singer Ian Gillan.

Cross left Helloween in 2002 due to illness. He had recorded two tracks with them, both of which featured on their Rabbit Don't Come Easy album in 2003.

In 2005 he featured as a session and touring musician for At Vance and also appeared on the British rock band Saracen's latest album, Vox in Excelso and Winter's Bane's comeback album, Redivivus.

With Firewind he released Allegiance in July 2006 and toured with them extensively throughout the world in 2006 and 2007, playing more than 150 shows. With their album The Premonition, which was released in April 2008 he and Firewind toured Europe and North America with Swedish metallers Arch Enemy and Japan with Kamelot. On 13 January 2010, Cross announced that he and Firewind had split.

In the following decade Cross released three albums with the band Outloud, We'll Rock You to Hell... (2009), Love Catastrophe (2011), and the Christmas special More Catastrophe! (2012). With God's Army, he appeared on God's Army AD (2014), Demoncracy (2018), and Warriors of the Wasteland (2021). And with UK rock rock band Tainted Nation he released F.E.A.R. (2012) and On the Outside (2016).

Mark played with the Scorpions in Bahrain on April 4, 2014 at the Gulf Formula 1 Grand Prix.

In 2023 he recorded and produced Joe Stump's Tower of Babel's latest album.

Cross has used Paiste cymbals, Tama drums, Vic Firth drumsticks, Evans drumheads and cymbals in the shape of Iron Crosses made by Factory Metal Percussion.