News: 31-01-2008:
Watch a close up view of Michael Romeo shredding the solos to "Of Sins and Shadows", "The Damnation Game", "Out of The Ashes" and "Sea Of Lies".
29-01-2008:
SPV-TV has posted an interview with Michael Romeo conducted by Sir Jay.
http://www.myspace.com/officialsymphonyx EnterTheVault.com through November 24th. They will then be available via regular outlets. Madrid interview from the guys at guitarmessenger.com , this time Michael Romeo gets the third degree ear bend.Oh man, now I don’t practice at all… nah, that’s not true. I practice once in a while. Or I practice if I feel like I’m getting rusty. I mean, sometimes there is just times you want to practice and maybe try some new things. Now it’s more about the writing and doing things like that. But in the past, yeah it was full on practicing all the time. http://www.myspace.com/officialsymphonyx audio interview with Symphony X guitarist Michael Romeo conducted by Norway's Metal Express Radio .Michael Romeo interview :You always have to try new stuff, you know. Like you said, yeah there is a lot of the things I do and it definitely appears here and there but I think when you are writing, you are trying to find something a little different or like you said something that sounds like a violin line or some kind of riff so you know, always try find something different. It keeps you being creative, try and push you to find something cool and at the same time it sounds cool. At the end of the day you are still trying to write a song, you are still trying to balance the technique with something that sounds cool and yeah you know just experiment, noodle around. A lot of the riffs the come about by you just sitting there banging on the guitar a little bit, just riffing around and noodling and then all of a sudden you stumble on something you never did and you are like oh wow that's kind of cool, let's see if I can build on that and that is usually how it comes about. Most of the time, most of the riffs and most of the little licks and things, you just kind of stumble on it without thinking about it too much, for me that is kind of what I like to do. Yeah I think this year I am going to commit to doing one because that CD is like ancient, back then I was using an 8-track back then, so yeah I really want to do something and with this record there was a lot of material left over that we ended up not using. This year or early next year I'll start putting some stuff together. "World Management would like to clear up any misinformation about the attached 'free bonus DVD' that is shrink wrapped to the new SYMPHONY X CD 'Paradise Lost'. The free fan bonus DVD attached is and was always intended to be an extra fan bonus for a small limited run of digis. It was shrink-wrapped onto the actual disc and is a bonus home-video-style collection of a few shows from the band's archives. Please enjoy these clips for their intent. new exclusive interview with http://avanzadametallica.net "I always say that I do what I want to, but all this time I’ve been with the band, especially with this record, I’m with them every day. I did almost everything on this record because we decided that we wanted a guitar driven record, so i’ve been creating in every minute of the day. And we did all the recording in my house, at my studio so for me all my time is devoted to the band, so is difficult to think in a solo thing, we have so much to think... the touring could be done, and thinking of the record could be done." "In one way it’s good because in that way many people could discover the band, people that have never heard the band. But at the same time there’s always the negative side, because many people are not paying for it, but if they download our music, it will invite them to buy the record". review for http://www.ytsejam.com/ awards a five star review to Paradise lost Paradise Lost is a lyrically haunting record, built upon the themes of the John Milton novel of the same name. Musically, Symphony X took all the ‘aural essentials’ of their past records, putting the symphonic moments where they needed to be, possessing the appropriate amount of neo-classical traces, and the placing melodic elements all over the place; all the while keeping their virtuoso approach in full force throughout. The wait was worth it. Paradise lost online. YouTube bio . He has released a DVD "The Guitar Chapter" and his CD releases:
Well, how about it, no Romania? Damn! I would have loved them here!
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