Machined

With over 20 years as a musician, instructor, composer and performer, Paul Kleff is a rock/metal guitarist based in Michigan. Paul's original music inspiration came from listening to artists like Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix and The Who. Starting out on an acoustic guitar, he learned chords and songs and worked hard at mastering the basics of the guitar. As he continued to grow as musician, Paul was drawn to the fire, expression and speed of artists like Edward Van Halen, Randy Rhoads, George Lynch and Yngwie Malmsteen. Now armed with an electric guitar, he set out to learn the styles of his heroes and began practicing and developing a lead guitar style based on both blues-influenced rock and the neoclassical shred styles of his newer influences. Paul's current CD release, titled Machined, is a four-song EP with two instrumental songs and two songs featuring guest vocalist Jerry Keyzer. Compositionally, the songs cover a wide palette of rock, metal and shred guitar styles. Heavy, progressive instrumental metal blends with epic vocal songs with intense, melodic lead guitar to form a bold musical statement in Machined.