Author: Chris Alfano

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Chris Alfano has written about music and toured in bands since print magazines and mp3.com were popular. Once in high-school he hacked a friend's QBasic stick figure fighting game to add a chiptune metal soundtrack. Random attractive people still give him high-fives about that.

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The technical death metal band brings the futurism without getting too technical about it.

But what's really bizarre is that the preamp is still in the amplifier.

His solo record comes out in a month, but you can watch him as well as bassist Mark Michell perform one of the songs now.

Spencer Prewett makes use of "finger switch blasting" to stay ahead of his band's extreme tempos.

We're giving away the band's new record, some GHS strings, and a GHS coozie to boot.

I've also said that if you're going to mimic something, do it how Bates would do it. Words to live by.

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