Joe Granata
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Rhode Island's Metal Chunk
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Milk-curdling runs. Gut-pounding rhythms. Head-out-the-window vocals. Pinched squeals. Fingers-on-the-chalkboard dissonance. All this and more are the featured attractions on Joe Granata's CD, A Long Road To Hell. Granata takes his guitar, bass and throat on his descent to the abyss, cutting heads and vocal chords with Lucifer, Prince Of Darkness, himself on the six guttural tracks. Granata is assisted on his one-way, non-stop, all-expenses-paid journey to damnation in the lake of eternal fire by Aaron Martin on drums. The tracks are influenced by '70s and '80s metal, including bands and performers such as Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Metallica, Randy Rhoads and DImebag Darrell. The arpeggios in the track "Back To Life" seem particularly similar to a Rhoads-era Ozzy Osborne song from "Diary Of A Madman" or "Blizzard Of Ozz". Granata's debut CD is his part to contributing to the return of powerful guitar rock.
Joe has been playing guitar since the age of twelve. During his grade school years he also picked up the trumpet, saxophone and drums, finally settling on the electric guitar after listening to the play of Randy Rhoads and Metallica's Kirk Hammett and James Hetfield. Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix, Darrell "Dimebag" Abbott, Steve Vai, Eddie Van Halen and many others have all been a huge influence on his early playing style. Joe's diverse taste in music caters to audiences who love everything from hard rock and metal to thrash and blues. Joe has a natural passion and interest in music of all genres and is determined to gain mastery of the instrument. Granata is currently studying ways to interpret and perfect the neo-classical style of guitar play made famous by the likes of Ritchie Blackmore, Michael Angelo Batio and Yngwie Malmsteen.
Granata is trying to attract attention and become known as a solo performing artist but would also welcome the opportunity to audition for any established bands that are looking for someone with his musical orientation.
MP3 Songs
Supersonic Shred
Glorified
Contact Information
Joe Granata
1000 Division Street, Suite 30-345
East Greenwich, RI 02818
United States
E-mail:
Joe Granata
Web site:
www.joegranata.com
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Iz
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Avant-Hard Rock
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Guitarist Michael Lance Serviolo is the driving force behind Iz, who have released another CD in the avant-hard rock category (yes, there is such a genre), entitled E M. Supported by his band mates, Tom Sublet (bass) and Dave Kerman (drums), Serviolo provides instrumental rock outside the norm, expanding minds and shattering preconceptions about what a power trio can do. A restrained heaviosity permeates the music, which can be sampled in both long (nine and ten minutes) and short (six tracks are under three minutes) morsels. Serviolo adds in experimental tracks ("Screaming Baby Cyborg," "Catatonia") and even a ballad, showing that Iz is determined to be nobody's one-trick pony band. To get a totally different idea of what three musicians can do with a bass, a drum kit, and some distorted guitars, check out what Iz is doing.
Iz has been making Denver, Colorado spongy for more than ten years, releasing three LPs of rock wallop. Michael is a longtime staple on Denver, Colorado's music scene. He has appeared with Local Threat, Peace Corp and Acid Ranch as well as the original Jux County, with founder Andy Monley. Michael later decided to concentrate on two projects - the hard-rocking Iz and an electronic recording project called Elan. His heritage, a mixture of Sicilian, Jewish, Native American and Uzbekistani, contributes in no small part to the blend of wide-ranging musical flavors found on his recordings. Michael formed his own label, Infinite 7, so that he would be free to do his own thing. "For the most part, Infinite 7 is just projects that I'm involved with," he reveals. "In truth, it's a vanity label, like most labels. Even labels that put out other bands are vanity labels, in a sense."
Serviolo spends most of his time around music - performing, composing, teaching, and handling promotion and publicity. "Teaching is the thing that I like to do more than anything else," he has been quoted as saying.
MP3 Songs
Pinball Brain Node
Hanged Man Blues
Contact Information
Michael Lance Serviolo
2805 E. 16th #7
Denver, CO 80206
United States
E-mail:
Iz
Web site:
www.myspace.com/izmusic
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