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I live for the more technical thrash that matured as the 80s lead to the 90s: Twisted Into Form by Forbidden, ... And Justice For All by Metallica, Horoscope by Overkill, etc. I'm also a huge fan of one of the most criminally unknown bands ever: Prototype. Their non vocalist guitarist, Kragen Lum, has played in many thrash bands, including Exodus, but right now he's on tour with Heathen, whose album Victims of Deception is to me one of the greats in the cannon of trash metal.
I've just recently moved to Wisconsin from Denver, and I hadn't seen a metal show in years. In celebration of the move, which has been positive in every way, my wife and I went to see Heathen play last night close to Milwaukee, and it was an incredible performance. I really love that one album, but live their performance was so good, so filled with the right spirit and energy, it made me reevaluate all their music, and now I have to revisit all the other albums too; I feel like I have a much better understanding of them as a band.
I also got to meet Kragen Lum, who was such a cool guy, and talk with him for a long time. He was talking, among many other things, about how his main tone is from a parametric EQ boosting the mids, like a Tube Screamer, into his Mark IV, that this tone is the same that he's used for all the Prototype albums too. I've been lucky enough to have met a few of my guitar heroes, including Chuck Schuldiner and Craig Locicero, but Kragen was someone that I thought I might never get to see perform, much less talk to, so I feel really lucky.
If you at all care about technical thrash, I highly recommend trying to catch Heathen on the remainder of their tour.
I've just recently moved to Wisconsin from Denver, and I hadn't seen a metal show in years. In celebration of the move, which has been positive in every way, my wife and I went to see Heathen play last night close to Milwaukee, and it was an incredible performance. I really love that one album, but live their performance was so good, so filled with the right spirit and energy, it made me reevaluate all their music, and now I have to revisit all the other albums too; I feel like I have a much better understanding of them as a band.
I also got to meet Kragen Lum, who was such a cool guy, and talk with him for a long time. He was talking, among many other things, about how his main tone is from a parametric EQ boosting the mids, like a Tube Screamer, into his Mark IV, that this tone is the same that he's used for all the Prototype albums too. I've been lucky enough to have met a few of my guitar heroes, including Chuck Schuldiner and Craig Locicero, but Kragen was someone that I thought I might never get to see perform, much less talk to, so I feel really lucky.
If you at all care about technical thrash, I highly recommend trying to catch Heathen on the remainder of their tour.