Biography

BIOGRAPHY

Meet Andrey Smirnov, a renowned rock musician, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist currently based in Germany.

Andrey is the guitarist and songwriter for German heavy metal giants U.D.O. and DIRKSCHNEIDER. He is also the lead vocalist, guitarist, and founder of modern metal band EVERLOST and heavy metal band NEBESA. Andrey began his musical journey at the age of 12 as a founder of his own band, EVERLOST. He’s recorded 5 albums with EVERLOST and 6 solo records. Latest instrumental guitar oriented record “Instrumentology: Vol1” is gonna be released December 31, 2024.

Andrey has played with notable bands such as Paul Di’Anno, Blaze Bayley.

In early 2013, Andrey joined the legendary German metal band U.D.O. as their guitarist and recorded his first work with them on the album “Steelhammer.” In October 2016, he became the guitarist for the newly-formed DIRKSCHNEIDER project, led by the illustrious Udo Dirkschneider.

Andrey Smirnov’s impressive equipment collection includes ESP and LTD guitars, AMT Electronics amplifiers and pedals. He is working as a software developer for OVERLOUD (TH-U) and he’s endorsed by ML SOUND LAB, NEURAL DSP plugins, InTune Guitar Picks, Kemper amps, MARSHALL and ENGL amps.

BIOGRAPHY

Meet Andrey Smirnov, a renowned rock musician, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist currently based in Germany.

Andrey is the guitarist, composer, and songwriter for German heavy metal giants U.D.O and DIRKSCHNEIDER. He is also the lead vocalist, guitarist, and founder of modern metal band EVERLOST and heavy metal band NEBESA. Andrey began his musical journey at the age of 12 as a founder of his own band, EVERLOST. He’s recorded 5 albums with EVERLOST and 5 solo records. Latest instrumental guitar oriented record “Electric Gravity” was released September 10, 2021.

Andrey has played with notable bands such as Paul Di’Anno, Blaze Bayley.

In early 2013, Andrey joined the legendary German metal band U.D.O. as their guitarist and recorded his first work with them on the album “Steelhammer.” In October 2016, he became the guitarist for the newly-formed DIRKSCHNEIDER project, led by the illustrious Udo Dirkschneider.

Andrey Smirnov’s impressive equipment collection includes ESP and LTD guitars, AMT Electronics amplifiers and pedals. He is working as a software developer for OVERLOUD (TH-U) and he’s endorsed by ML SOUND LAB, NEURAL DSP plugins, InTune Guitar Picks, Kemper amps, MARSHALL and ENGL amps.