Guillotine
Guillotine is a heavy metal band with many influences, mainly power/thrash/melodic death metal.
Tell me about your history? How did you get where you are now?
Guillotine was formed by Daniel Tidwell and James Eric Tidwell during the summer of 2004 after their previous band had split up. Carl Moore, a bassplayer and long-time friend, joined with them. Soon after, the band found a drummer by the name of Chris Simon. They played together for awhile, but wanted to take it up a notch and practice more often. Carl put the other things in his life ahead of the band, and decided it wasn't important enough to him so he quit. Only a minor setback as the band got in touch with the bassplayer from their first band, Matt Taylor, and immediately started showing him the songs. After a while with that lineup, they felt the time was right for a vocal change, both of style and person, and in May of 2005 Brian "Taz" Berta joined with them. The band just released a new demo in July 2005 and are heavily promoting it as well as working on new music.
Have you performed live in front of an audience? Any special memories?
Yeah, theres nothing like playing live.
Your musical influences
Iron Maiden, old Metallica, Megadeth, Children of Bodom, Arch Enemy, Blind Guardian, Iced Earth, Jimi Hendrix, In Flames, Yngwie Malmsteen, Joe Satriani, Death, Nevermore, Demons and Wizards, Dark Tranquility, Soilwork, Dragonforce, Kreator, Stratovarius, Hammerfall, Evergrey, Kalmah, Rhapsody, Wintersun, Zakk Wylde, etc.
What equipment do you use?
For a full list of all of our equipment, go to www.guillotinemetal.com.
Anything else?
Our website is www.guillotinemetal.com, so go there and join the forums or whatever, just support real metal.
