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Houston, TX USA

Metal • Heavy Metal

February 05, 2006

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Wow, it's been a while. Last updated when I had been playing for 3-ish years. Been playing for almost 9 now, and it's starting to move in an entirely different direction musically.

I've been influenced greatly by bands like Meshuggah, Periphery, Between the Buried and Me, System of a Down, more classic metal like Metallica, Pantera, Exodus, and to a lesser extent Animals as Leaders and Scale the Summit.

The direction I want this band to aim for is a mix of math metal and progressive metal, or what's become known these days as Djent. Not sure if the name will stay the same, but that will come in time.

So far we've got me, Kevin, on guitar/vocals, and Austin, a good friend of mine, on Bass/vocals. Still looking for a good drummer, preferably with a background in jazz and metal drumming. Another guitarist wouldn't be bad, either, as I'm not much of a lead player.

Hope to post more stuff here that isn't just me covering songs!

Band/artist history

I, Kevin, have been playing Guitar for the past 9 years and have(I like to think) improved greatly over the past five-and-a-half. Austin has been playing Bass for about 5 years, but he's(as he would tell you) way out of practice due to his tour in Iraq(took 3 years). He's back now, though, and is about to start taking lessons from his old teacher to re-learn some theory and other things. Been looking for a drummer since I started this page, as well as a lead guitarist.

Have you performed in front of an audience?

As we aren't a complete band yet, no live playing has occurred.

Your musical influences

System of a Down, Metallica, Alice in Chains, U.P.O., Skindred, Soil, ICP, Dave Matthews, AFI, Coheed and Cambria, Exodus, Periphery, Between the Buried and Me, Meshuggah, The Non, Scale the Summit, Animals as Leaders/Tosin Abasi, and many others.

What equipment do you use?

Guitars:

Ibanez RGA-8 8-string (stock)
Ibanez RG-7321 7-string (stock)
Cort X-series 6-string with Floyd Rose (stock)
mid-70's Gibson Les Paul Deluxe (stock)
Martin DX-1 Acoustic (silk strings)
Jay Turser Acoustic (stock)

Amps/Effects:

Crate 15-watt Solid-State Practice Amp
MusicMan 50-watt All-Tube
Boss MT-2 Metal Zone Distortion
Line 6 POD Uber Metal Distortion
Line 6 POD HD 500 Amp/Cab modeller (SOON!)

Other:

Dunlop Jazz III picks (red and black)
Absolut Vodka wristband around guitar neck (for tapping)

Anything else?

I've been playing guitar for over eight years, coming up on nine. I just got my first 8-string guitar and I'm absolutely in love! Hopefully I'll start recording some original work on it soon!