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Cloud 9

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It has been a while since I last recorded and posted a track, but I am back with what I feel is my finest cut yet. Once again a diversity of influences come together to create a delightful musical experience, that has no precedent on the modern rock guitar. Cloud 9 sees a blend of my trademark classically influenced guitar style with the heavy bottom end of nu metal, the melodicism of Gothenburg death metal scene, the stately drum beats of Lady Gaga, all topped off with blazing shred guitar licks. The song traverses a number of musical modes including the Mixolydian, Phrygian and Ionian modes. Compared to earlier tunes, Club Shred and Into the Night, Cloud 9 showcases the legato technique. After some dreamy atmospheric lines at 3:09, the listener is smashed upside the head with some ripping arpeggios and Final Fantasy-esque melodies, which culminate in a descending scalar passage, splitting at 3:44 into a descending chromatic scale harmonized in diminished intervals.

The Local Music Scene: Quickly Becoming One Big Circus?

So I've been fascinated by this DVD documentary, called Working Class Rockstar .   They make some interesting points about the state of the contemporary music scene/industry. In the clip below Frank Marino is talking about how it always used to be that live music events would be referred to as "concerts" but now they are referred to as "shows".   Apparently, the quality of the music has deteriorated so much that it is no longer about the art, rather image has taken over. It just got me thinking about how these days it seems I never go to a local music show just for the music -- rather, something else seems to draw me out to these events.   The typical event featuring small local artists tends to follow this formula: A large number of acts featured on a single bill, often ranging from 5 to 9; necessary to maximize revenue for venue.   None of the acts present originality to any real degree; current trends reproduced in caricatured form. Ba

INSIGNIA OPENING FOR HAMMERFALL AND POWERGLOVE -"ROCK&ROLL"

THE GODS OF METAL DOING IT AGAIN. www.myspace.com/steveandmaung - insignia on the web!!! http://philosopherofthefuture.blogspot.com

INSIGNIA - ROCK&ROLL LIVE AT BAND PRACTICE

My band Insignia practicing our song "Rock&Roll"... enjoy.