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Nov 20, 2004 |
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Influences
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My musical influences fall mainly into three genres; Heavy Metal, Classical, and Film Scores. When I first decided to pursue my solo project, my inspiration came from my favorite elements of these three genres of music. I wanted to take the power and intensity of Heavy Metal guitars and percussion, the equally powerful symphonic orchestra of Classical and Film Scores, with it's ability to be huge and grand and powerful, or to be soft and beautiful, or dark and mournful, and sometimes all of these at once. I try to take those elements of music and utilize them together in harmony, rather than just having it sound contrived and clumsy. Heavy Metal bands that I like and have inspired me creatively are Megadeth, Metallica, Testament, Savatage/TSO, Iced Earth, Dream Theater, Queensryche, Circle of Dust, Overkill, Believer, Samael, Die Krupps, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, and more recently Killswitch Engage. Many Classical composers also influence me. A few of them are Beethoven, Chopin, Berlioz, Offenbach, Carl Orff, Mozart, Greig, Wagner, Mussorgsky, Holst, as well as many others. Film Scores are what I often find myself turning to for inspiration. Film Score composers like Basil Poledouris, James Horner, Jerry Goldsmith, Don Davis, Brad Fiedel, Trevor Rabin, John Debney, Danny Elfman, John Williams, Alan Silvestri, and Hans Zimmer have had a great impact on my own music. I also sometimes draw influence from Gothic, Industrial, and New Age music as well., |
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Sounds Like
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My solo project is a marriage of Baroque and Romantic and Classical, Modern Film Scores, Symphonic, Heavy Metal, Gothic, and Industrial. All the songs are instrumental, heavily orchestral, and tend to be very long and involved, with a lot of changes. Heavy Metal guitars with Orchestral instruments. When listening to my music, a few words people often tend to use to describe it would be "epic" "powerful" "dramatic" "heroic" "majestic" "inspiring" and more. No one who has heard my solo music compares it to anything else, however many have said that it sounds like an action or super-hero movie score. One listener said it could be the score to the next big Arnold action movie. Another listener dubbed it "Superhero Metal." I liked the name and I think that's just about the best genre classification one could really make., |
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none yet, but trying |
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| General
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I'm into Music (obviously), Movies, TV, Professional Wrestling, Video Games, Comic Books
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| Movies
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I love action movies and comedies but action more than anything. Then there are some that combine the two such as Rush Hour I & II and many Jackie Chan movies for that matter. I love basically any Arnold movie especially Conan the Barbarian and the Terminator Trilogy The Sixth Day, End of Days, Running Man, Total Recall, Predator, Predator 2, Alien 1-4, Alien vs. Predator, AVP: Requiem, Freddy vs. Jason, The Matrix Trilogy, LOTR trilogy, Blade trilogy, Underworld 1&2, X-Men Trilogy, Spider Man Trilogy, Batman, Batman Begins, Superman 1&2, Superman Returns, Fantastic Four 1&2, Daredevil, The Punisher, Ghost Rider, The Hulk, Hellboy, Unbreakable, Constantine, Judge Dredd, Transformers, 300, Sin City, pretty much any superhero movie Gladiator, Troy, Stargate, Doom, Pitch Black, Chronicles of Riddick, Transformers The Movie, Beetlejuice, Back to the Future trilogy Ghostbusters 1 & 2, Evildead 1, 2, and Army of Darkness The Postman, Best Men, Die Hard 1-3, Lethal Weapon 1-4, Bad Boys 1 & 2 Paycheck, Minority Report, Blade Runner, Next, The Scorpion King, The Rundown, Walking Tall, Man on Fire, The Last Samurai, Mission Impossible Trilogy, Bourne Trilogy, I Robot, I Am Legend, Con Air, The Rock, Face/Off, Soldier, Hard Target, most any Van Damme movie Exit Wounds, Cradle 2 The Grave Romeo Must Die, The One, most Jet Li movies Dark City, Thirteenth Floor, Vanilla Sky, The Core, Deep Impact, The Cell, What Dreams May Come The Fountain, The Golden Compass, National Treasure, National Treasure: Book of Secrets |
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WWE Raw, WWE Smackdown, ECW, Wrestlemania once a year every year The Simpsons, Family Guy, Futurama, South Park, The Shield, Burn Notice, Smallville,
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Aside from music, which is not really a hobby but a lifetime obsession I love to watch Professional Wrestling and I love to watch TV and movies I like photography and digital picture editing video editing, creating fractal artwork, playing video games, lifting weights. My favorite video games are Saint's Row Crackdown, Grand Theft Auto series and the WWE Smackdown series. I'm trying to write a comic book that I would like to adapt into an animated movie.
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| Views
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Be who you are, do what you want to do, and never back down from anyone, or anything...ever.
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Male
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Married |
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Making contacts and showcasing my music |
| Hometown |
Goddard Kansas |
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5'5 150 |
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atheist |
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Leo |
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No |
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No |
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none |
| Education |
High School graduate |
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I compose, play, and record all the music myself. I play all the instruments including rhythm lead, and acoustic guitar, bass, piano, keyboard, and programming on drum machines and software samplers/sample collections.
I have been playing and writing music since I was 12 years old. In 1996 I joined a band called FATE with two friends of mine. After some time we had written several songs and I was really enjoying it. I liked the direction the music was going but I also wanted to write some music that was a little different from the straight-forward Heavy Metal style that FATE was writing. I wanted to compose music that had Metal guitars percussion and influence, but also involved piano organ, and a lot of orchestral/symphonic instruments like strings brass, woodwinds, tympani, orchestral percussion, choir, etc... like a full traditional symphonic orchestra but one where the guitars and drums are in among the other instrument sections taking no precedence over any other but rather being just another part of the bigger ensemble and I wanted it to be all instrumental. My partners in the band didn't want to do any instrumentals or pieces that were too long. As a result I remained in FATE and kept writing music with them while also branching off into my own new musical direction as a side-project. After a couple of years FATE had come into their own after the addition of the bassist's brother on second guitar. We started playing a lot of local gigs and continued to write more music. By this time I had composed quite a few pieces of music myself as well. I decided to attempt a double album with a concept story. I continued with composing more pieces for the concept album and writing the story but at the same time I had become afflicted with a deep depression. My depression affected every area of my life including my solo music but most significantly it had a negative impact on FATE as well. Ultimately I ended up leaving FATE voluntarily. I did so for many reasons but for two reasons primarily. The most important of which being to climb my way out of the downward spiral into which I had fallen. The other reason being to focus on my own music. Initially leaving FATE sent me further down into my depression but it was something I had to do to get well again. I personally believe in Nietzsche's saying "what does not kill me makes me stronger." After about a year I finally succeeded in climbing out of the pit of despair. At this point it's October of 2003. I had mostly completed composing my concept album and was still in the process of recording it as well as a few new pieces for the next album. Then I got a phone call from a friend of mine who had gotten together with a couple of musicians and wanted me to come play guitar with them to help them out in writing some music until they found a permanent lead guitarist. When I went to rehearse with them everything clicked and I officially joined in a permanant position. We then called ourselves Crucible and started writing music. Getting with Crucible helped me a lot on a personal level and on a creative level as well. Working with Crucible also got me back into a creative zone that I hadn't completely been in for quite a while. As Crucible wrote more music so did I for my own project. Then in August of 2004 I was asked by my FATE brethren to rejoin the band. I happily accepted but it was short-lived. We were back together for only a few months when we realized that none of us had the time it takes to dedicate ourselves fully to the band. The members of FATE have since decided to pursue other things but the good that can be taken from it is that we were able to mend fences and I remain great friends with them so it all worked out in the end. Crucible continued on writing more music, performing at many venues and building a solid fanbase. We were together for over four years until June 8th, when I played my last show with them. After a few months of intense deliberation I decided to leave Crucible to pursue other things and to make my solo music and my comic book my sole focus. My time in the band was truly great. I had a wonderful time made some great friends and learned a lot from my many experiences. But now I will be forging ahead on my own with my solo project. I wish Crucible the best of luck in their pursuit of their dreams. |
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