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Andy James

Andy James is an electric guitarist from Norfolk, UK. He is perhaps best known as a regular contributor to "Lick Library", a dealer of guitar tuition videos, books and cds, where James specialises in teaching lead techniques for heavy rock and metal. Aside from this, James has also recorded solo albums In the Wake of Chaos, Machine and Andy James and is a member of the band Sacred Mother Tongue. In his solo recordings Andy exhibits a predominant influence of Joe Satriani as well as other comparable guitar legends.

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Joe Stump

Joe Stump is an American guitarist and composer. His style is similar to Yngwie Malmsteen's neo-classical metal. He released albums with his band, Reign of Terror and also as a solo artist. Stump is a professional shredder, and Guitar One Magazine voted him 6th position among the Top 10 fastest shredders of all time. Joe has taught for many years at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. He also has a guitar instructional DVD lisenced under Berklee Music. Stump endorses and uses ESP Guitars, Marshall amplifiers and Rhino amplifiers.

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The Frogman Prog Trio

?Formati alla fine degli anni '70, i Frogman Prog Trio si sono guadagnati nel tempo la fama di innovatori del prog\shredding\avantgarde\noise. L'incontro tra i tre componenti del gruppo, ovvero Rocco Oas, Tina Squit e Robert Dildert avvenne nel celebre jazz bar The Cavern di Liverpoollate (MI), mentre era in corso una competizione tra chitarristi. I tre, dopo aver offeso e avvilito i concorrenti per tutta la durata della manifestazione, additandoli come incompetenti, hanno cominciato a malmenarsi per voler dimostrare la propria superiorit

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Byron Johnston

Byron Johnston is gaining increasing acclaim for his unique brand of flamenco fusion and highly original artistic approach to guitar performance. He is rapidly becoming a rising star of the acoustic guitar in the UK music scene following the release of his debut album ‘Oceano’ which fuses elements of contemporary, world and flamenco guitar music and is currently available on iTunes.
His live gigs offer fearsome displays during which he leaves no part of his guitar unplayed. As a soloist he creates the effect of percussion, the ocean and many other sounds on the body of his guitars.

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Diamond Plate

DIAMOND PLATE formed in 2007 in the southwest suburbs of Chicago. DIAMOND PLATE unknowingly arrived at the right time, just as thrash-metal was beginning to make a huge comeback worldwide. Due to the ferocity of their music, coupled with a revived hunger for thrash, DIAMOND PLATE quickly established themselves as one of the top forces in the emerging U.S. thrash metal scene. A young but formidable three-piece, DIAMOND PLATE made their debut in early 2008 with their ferocious and critically acclaimed, “Mountains of Madness” E.

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