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- "Extreme Guitar Shred" DVD Review in Modern Guitars
Magazine
- By Rick Landers, Modern
Guitars Magazine
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February 28, 2005
DVD: "Extreme Guitar Shred" by The Great Kat
by Rick Landers
Macho shredders beware: The Great Kat will skewer you, tear you apart note by note, dine
on your bleeding wounds, then lick your blood off her high velocity paws before she yawns.
Every track on "Extreme Guitar Shred" is a full frontal assault, exploding with
blazing lines from the likes of Wagner, Liszt, and Sarasate. “The Ride of the
Vakyries,” for example, unleashes a mass of stampeding hellions at warp speed with
The Great Kat's violin and guitar work firing off rounds that overwhelm everything in
their path.
Born Katherine Thomas, she’s been absorbing Beethoven since birth and started
classical piano at age 7. By 9, she was studying classical violin in New York and at 15
was impressing the faculty at the prestigious Julliard School of Music. She's played at
the Carnegie Recital Hall as a solo violinist and won the exclusive Artists International
Competition.
However, that was then.
At some point, Katherine Thomas realized that although she is the incarnation of
Beethoven, standard classical music is dead and the electric guitar is alive.
The Great Kat was born.
Since then, she's clawed her way to the top of neo-classical metal shred, lick by lick,
riff by riff - a maniacal mad-woman with sharp talons and shock troop chops.
The Great Kat is on a mission to re-ignite the world of classical music around the globe
through her guitar work. She sees the current state of classical music as dead and ripe
for a re-birth. But, we're not talking about a Saturday afternoon at Carnegie Hall. The
Great Kat's goal is world domination and this musical lioness is taking no prisoners.
In the hands of The Great Kat, the electric guitar and violin serve as weapons of mass
destruction. Her work, echoing masters such as Bach, Vivaldi, and Rossini, compels the
listener to return to the originals to find out what started this war.
Her quest to globalize "Shred/Classical" music is a calling she takes seriously
and pursues with outrageous abandon. She’s been called the “High Priestess of
Shred” and Guitar One magazine rated her one of the ”Top 10 Fastest Shredders of
All Time”. However, The Great Kat prefers to think of herself as "...a maniac,
and a god, and a messiah, all rolled into one."
For gonzo shredders and those who have an appreciation for classical motifs, this DVD is
highly recommended. It is both aurally and visually...extreme.
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