Nathan P Holly
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NOTE - I'm going to be updating this once I get the time. I am also an abstract and surreal oil painter. I have a project I'm working on incorporating my music, art, and love of concept albums. More to come. Until then, here's my old bio....
I am a mechanical engineer and I occupy my free time by writing music and painting. I received my bachelors degree from UW-Madison in 2000. I started playing guitar in high school. My early musical influences were definitely metal. Bands like Megadeth, Metallica, and Iron Maiden dominated my cassette collection. I taught myself guitar by learning songs by these and other bands.
After college I decided I wanted to start writing music which meant I needed to understand music and the guitar more. Although I did play the saxophone in grade school, I did not really understnad music theory. So I spent some time online learning basic music theory and began writing The Suffering. My musical influences at that time were mostly power metal bands such as Iced Earth and Nevermore but I had begun to develop and interest in doom metal.
My next album, The Dreamer, was a step back to the basics of songwriting. This was actually what I had planned for my first album but it kind of got out of hand. The Dreamer is an almost entirely acoustic album with simpler song structures. At this point in my life I had become influenced almost entirely by darker metal and indie bands such as The Gathering, Katatonia, and Opeth.
The most recent album God is Dead is a culmination of what I learned on the previous two albums. The song structures are much more complex than on the previous two albums. It combines acoustic and electric guitars in almost equal amounts while combining death metal and clean vocals. Previously named bands remain an influence however I begun to draw song structure influence from bands such as Sigur Ros, Agalloch, and maudlin of the Well.Your musical influences
Anethema, Sigur Ros, The Gathering, Novembers Doom, Antimatter, Katatonia, Opeth, Moonspell, maudlin of the Well, Kayo Dot, Toby DriverHi Nathan, here is Cleryne. Thanks for answering my email. I hope that you heared Estatic Fear. Good luck once again!greta, GREAT, musician!nice tracks im really feeling the concepts in each track, get at me maybe we can do a colab, check out my first song its called dont snitch! in death song you did is really deep, those lyrics are extreme powerfull, i feel your pain man, keep doing your thang, and it aint just a vision in your mind@!I like... with feeling... remembers to Lacrimosa... luck in the futureAll comments (5)
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I m making promotion about your songs in forums like orkut, i know that this is a work of results that will come with the time, cause future Nathan have.