Paul Morris – Keyboards
Paul studied piano as a child in New York City under well-known jazz teachers and has toured all over the world. He is best known for his live and studio work with Ritchie Blackmore in Rainbow and for co-writing Black Masquerade on the Stranger In Us All album.
Over his long career, Paul has also worked and toured with Joe Lynn Turner, Doro, The Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Nena (99 Red Balloons), Mark the Heavy Metal Violinist, Peter Noon, Over The Rainbow, Bonfire and Yngwie Malmsteen, in addition to many recording sessions, too numerous to mention. In more recent years, Paul has had stints in Deep Purple tribute bands Purpendicular and Deeper Purple and also on occasions plays with Voyage, the tribute band to Journey and also with Bon Jovi tribute Slippery When Wet, who often perform for US troops stationed all over the world.
Piotr “Zinny” Zaleski – Vocals
Peter is a Rock, Hard Rock and Heavy Metal singer from Poland, who at an early age appeared in a number of Polish opera productions such as, as a choirboy in ‘Carmen’ and ‘La bohème’ by Giacomo Puccini. He graduated from music school in violin where he gained valuable experience working with orchestras and conductors.
Peter is the lead vocalist of a band owned by the biggest Polish radio station Antyradio. He has worked with many bands and projects over the years, his co-writing project Unity, Finnish band Kenizner, Dutch hard Rock band Faith Healer and the Polish Heavy Metal extravaganza Dragons Eye. He has recorded many albums with numerous bands and played some of the biggest European and Polish festivals including Masters Of Rock and Woodstock Festival Poland.
If that is not enough, he has also has extensive studio experience with commercial and jingle recording and was chosen as the exclusive Polish rock singer to record a Polish language version of a Fortnite campaign song “Stand and Fight” by Epic Games and Warner Bros USA. The Bad Matrix Dangerous Game album is Peter’s tenth recording featuring his voice. Photo by Sylwia Radosz
Rob Sas – Guitar
Rob took up guitar in the mid 1970’s and before long had formed his first band Killerhurtz, playing mostly original songs, often supporting bands like The Groundhogs, The Nashville Teens and other rock bands of the time at venues in and around west London. Rob split that band up after a few years but returned to live playing after concentrating on his recording studio projects for a while which in 1999, gave birth to what would eventually be re-named Bad Matrix in 2025, a commercial rock project in which Warner-Chappell took a keen interest, until the recession of the early 1990’s. The record company cut their new band roster, the band folded and so Rob immediately formed Burn, a Classic Rock covers band that played all over the UK for 20 years, touring Denmark twice during that time. Upon moving to south Spain in 2012, Rob formed The Rob Sas Band playing Classic Rock cover songs and two years later, he formed Deeper Purple, an international tribute to the music of Deep Purple. In 2023, Rob re-ignited the Bad Matrix project.
Rob is a veteran of the live music scene with decades of experience and has worked all over Europe with a plethora of well known name musicians. He was a member of The John Coghlan Band for three years, headed by the legendary ex Status Quo drummer and he was also in Quatermas 2 headed by the equally legendary drummer, the late Mick Underwood. In addition Rob has worked with many names such as Nic Simper (Deep Purple), Gary Barden (Michael Schenker), Mick Tucker (The Sweet), Danny Vaughn (Tyketto) and Doogie White, to name just a few.
Phil Crombie – Bass
Phil has been surrounded by music from a very young age and learnt piano, ‘cello and classical guitar throughout his school years. Classical music didn’t really hit the spot with Phil, whereas rock music did. Bass guitar seemed the obvious choice – and at the age of 16 Phil was playing with local band Aunt Lucy, playing a mixture of rock covers and original music.
Phil has played in a number of local bands over the years – one of which, The Workhouse, continues to be an ongoing writing, recording and performance project. Phil has always been interested in sound engineering and producing and has been recording and mixing songs for over 35 years – starting out using the original version of Cubase on a 64mb computer synced to a 1 inch tape machine.
Phil has been the bass player for Deeper Purple a European tribute band to Deep Purple for the last 10 years. As well as playing the bass, Phil is responsible for all of their recording and video projects. Phil has also arranged and recorded a number of classical pieces for bass guitar, which can be seen on his YouTube channel “Phil Crombie Bass Guitar”. Phil uses Fender Custom Shop bass guitars, Ernie Ball strings and Mesa Boogie amplification. Phil lives in the UK, near Epping in Essex with his wife Andrea, children Lara, Violet and Dylan and their cat Angus. Phil balances family life with music, SCUBA diving, mountain biking and running.
Paul Mallyon – Drums
Paul has been a drummer for 35 years and a professional player for 20 years. Paul’s parents always had good music playing and he was exposed to artists such as The Police, Genesis, Supertramp and Frank Zappa before learning to play. Having studied with legendary UK teacher, Bob Armstrong, Paul received a thorough and comprehensive drum education in many styles. As well as his love for the drums, Paul is also a multi instrumentalist, songwriter and composer and has released various solo albums as well as contributing material to jazz and prog ensemble groups Sanguine Hum and Supervoc. Paul’s focus is to play drums for the song first and foremost. Technique should always be in service to the music even though technique can also be fun in and of itself!