Electric Horrorland

Electric Horrorland, Michael Knight's third full-length instrumental release, is a total shred fest, by far his heaviest release to date. Guitar rhythms grind out moshable chug riffs, break-neck thrash styles and ominous chord changes. Michael's solo guitar work on this CD represents a temporary shift in his approach to instrumental song-crafting. "I decided to abandon all repeated melody verses and main guitar themes. This CD is an improvisational soloing experiment gone awry." Michael's style on this CD moves beyond traditional scale shapes and formulas and into the mindset that any note is game. The result is a frenzied lunacy of freestyle guitar solos that bastardize traditional scale theory and usage. The general concept behind Electric Horrorland is to pay homage to some of Michael's favorite video games. With song titles such as "Twisted Metal", "Resident Evil", and Ghost Recon, Michael attempted to capture the essence of game play in his music - the chaotic use of seemingly random notes set upon the mono-tone, thrash-style rhythms serve to reinforce their purpose, complete with moments of adrenaline surge and vice-like focus.