My Life In Music… C. J. Orazi
Metallica – Black Album This album is responsible for me playing guitar in the first place. It made me start learning and playing every day. I learned to switch from clean to grit, and when…
Metallica – Black Album This album is responsible for me playing guitar in the first place. It made me start learning and playing every day. I learned to switch from clean to grit, and when…
Appetite for Destruction – Guns \’N\’ Roses This is the perfect debut album. It really has everything I love about rock n roll music, it’s dangerous, sexy and loud but the song-writing is also stellar. There…
Metallica – Ride the Lightning This album really turned me onto metal. The intro of “Ride the Lightning” made me pick up that dusty guitar we kept hidden away in the closet. Just an overall…
BATHORY – Under the Sign of the Black Mark. Nothing gets closer to this. The sound is rotten and loud. Songs like Massacre, Equimanthorn and Chariots of Fire were unparalleled even until today. Now imagine…
No. 1: ADAM AND THE ANTS Dirk Wears White Sox LP: This is quite simply the best album of all time, and I’ve probably played it at least once a week ever since the day I…
Status Quo – 12 Gold Bars Heh, Heh, Heh… Well, well this is where it began for me. Status Quo was what me and my buddies used to head bang to on our way to and…
This was a very difficult task as hundreds of records have shaped where I am musically today – but as we are riding in the van from Madrid to Paris I will open my mind…
Hey guys I\’m Chase with the band Terrifier from Vancouver Canada and I\’ll be taking you guys through some of my most important influences. I have so many different influences that come from mainly thrash…
Foo Fighters – There Is Nothing Left To Lose The first album that I truly listened too inside out, every day, for months. I played air drums/ guitar and pretended to sing alone in my…
Taking their name from a demon from Dante’s Divine Comedy, Malacoda’s dark gothic vision is indeed divine but no laughing matter. As band leader Lucas, who studied Literature and Religion at University explains: ‘Malacoda was…
Behemoth- Demigod This album holds a very special place for me, being the first ever truly brutal death metal album to make it into my life. My ears and my writing were never the same….
Blind Guardian Imaginations from the Other Side They are the first metal band that I really got into; they started the ball. At first I didn’t like bands with screamed vocals so power metal was…