Thorbjorn Englund, the guitar magician behind Winterlong, has released his debut instrumental solo album, entitled Influences. As the title suggests, this album pays homage to Thorbjorn?s influences and covers a wide range of styles. Thorbjorn has had the desire to do an instrumental album since the first Winterlong album and it?s at this stage of his career that Thorbjorn felt there was enough quality material to realise this vision. The songs on Influences are a collection of old ideas some that date back to the very first Winterlong promo demo as well as brand compositions written especially for this album with some additional rarities thrown in such as covers of old NES game soundtracks!

Anyone that has appreciated Thorbjorn?s virtuoso guitar work on the last four Winterlong albums will find Influences a great insight into what make Thorbjorn tick as a musician. One thing is for certain, anyone that appreciates a well played guitar will dig Influences. Instrumental Guitar (Electric (Heavy)/Hard Rock/Heavy Metal), total running time, 38:53

guitar fused instrumental hard rock from the guitarist of "Winterlong



  Ink Complete
  by Spastic Ink
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What you get from Spastic Ink is more than the typical. You get the extraordinary. You get groundbreaking play from three highly-skilled musicians who aren't afraid to explore the limits of their ability. And this is truly what sets "Ink Complete" apart as one of the more innovative pieces of music to be exposed this decade. - Matt Barber, Heavy Metal @ the Mining Co.

Wildly inventive, creatively ungoverned, mind-bending instrumental tech/prog metal from the minds, hands and feet of heralded TX brothers Ron (g) and Bobby Jarzombek (dr) and fellow San Antonian Pete Perez (bs).



  Jerseyband Live: Lung Punch Fantasy
  by Jerseyband
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Don't judge a book by its cover: Despite Jerseyband's being fronted by four horn players, they're more metal than you'll ever be. (That wasn't a pun.) Neither an average jazz group, nor a run-of-the-mill metal outfit, the seven-piece Jerseyband have stumbled onto a style all their own-they call it "lungcore".

With all our combined editorial experience here at Metroland, we would be hard-pressed to come up with a more accurate description. Imagine a head-on collision of the tour buses carrying Dillinger Escape Plan and the Count Basie Orchestra. That sound-the skronk and squeal made at the instant when metal intertwines with metal—is the essence of the Jerseyband experience, a mélange of detuned electric guitars, crashing drums, and a seemingly traditional jazz-ensemble frontline.

Lungcore - A new genre that infuses a horn-driven band with heavy metal values



  Late Night At Desert's Rimrock
  by Alex Masi
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The music of “Late Night At Desert Rimrock” is a wild musical ride with no specific goal other than “music” itself. The title may conjure up images of irrational, rabbi, hallucinogenic, exploring drumming and guitar playing and this is indeed how Alex Masi himself describes the music. Masi’s primary influence for the music was the universe itself, stating, “Every piece is a universe in itself...the influence is the desert...my love of the desert...my love of solitude...my trips around various deserts and the imaginary and actual encounters...altered mental states..”.

Alex Masi continues his rich musical journey with Late Nights At Desert's Rimrock.? The album also features his MCM bandmate and drummer John Macaluso (Yngwie Malmsteen, Ark).



  Metal Machine
  by Broderick Gray
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Broderick Gray (Rick) is not a novice in the U.S. Underground scene. While picking up the guitar as a child, he studied hard to develop an advanced guitar technique and is now considered one of the virtuosos of the Neo-Classical genre in the U.S. scene. While co-operating with many bands including Timejam, Mass of Virtue, Amethyst, Allegiance, Nyxx, Metal in Action and Final Prophecy, among others. Gray was also constantly working on new musical ideas for his solo project entitled “Mythic Force”. Under that name he released several albums including “Realms of Fire”, “Sacred Vision” and “Mythic Force I, II and III”. “Metal Machine” is once again a collection of Gray’s ideas which ended up as instrumentals

High energy instrumental melodic power metal/heavy metal with neo-classical elements, high speed rhythms, and lightning fast guitar.



  Rusty Cooley (Special Edition)
  by Rusty Cooley
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With a technique that can only be described as flawless across not just 6, but 7 and 8 strings, Rusty takes the shreds foundations as laid down by the likes of Yngwie Malmsteen, Randy Rhoads and Edward Van Halen and overdrives the intensity throughout a myriad of complex progressive arrangements all of which will have even the most hardened guitar fan scratching their head in amazement.

Rusty Cooley is arguably one of the world’s most famous shredders in 2008 thanks to his classic debut album and band works in Outworld



  Rivage
  by Lei Chen
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Instrumental Shred guitar from China's finest.

Genre: Metal/Punk: Instrumental Metal
Release Date: 2008

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