Oxygen are from Sweden that excel in high quality Melodic Rock with an

80’s tinge.



Tony Niva began his musical career 1987 with a metal act called

Zanity. They only recorded one demo-tape which was never to be

released for the public masses. Tony also appeared on the single Down

Town released with Swedish Erotica somewhere around 1988. After the

sessions in Gothenburg Tony was a member in several musical acts

around on his home ground regions, such as Malibu Band, Tracy Goes

Crazy and Axia.



The band NIVA released “No Capitulation” in Japan in 1994. After this

first NIVA release there was not much activity in terms of live

performances, instead Tony composed own made material during that

period.



At that point Tony was moving his musical direction from the metal

genre. He made an appearance with the band Lion’s Share and they

released the album “Entrance”.



Niva have now changed their musical prowess to more of the AOR and

Melodic Rock style of direction, the new band is called Oxygen and the

album is “Final Warning”. What this album is all about is highly

infectious melodies and great songs. Oxygen have a knack of turning

out great tunes, in the manner of Treat and such other great Swedish

bands but they seem to have captured that great American  / Canadian

vibe of the early eighties, and vocally Tony sounds a little like Lou

Nadeau of “Wrabit” so you can be sure they stand out from the crowd!



Oxygen are like a breath of fresh air and they put so much passion

into their songs, this fantastic album should be a big hit with all

those who love Scandinavian Melodic rock but also love how it was

originally done in the 80’s on the other side of the Atlantic.