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The
Great Kat, or Katherine Thomas as she is christened once upon a time,
graduated from
Juilliard and has won several scholarship and competions due
to her skills in handling
the violin. However she decided to play metal
instead since she realized that the interest
in classical music was minimal.
She did not only start to play metal but also became obsessed
with playing as
fast as possible on both the guitar and violin in order to create a new
style
that she calls cyberspeed metal. This album proves that she has learned to
play at a
very high speed and with great skill indeed but it feels like she
is wasting her talent
since I am sure she could achieve something a lot more
interesting than this. The two
songs on this album that are transcribed
versions of Rossini and Bozzini are actually
rather nice and very well-done
but the other two tracks that she has written herself are
not that good.
Screaming about castrating and sodomizing men doesn't really make it any
better but that is all part of the extreme image she has created for
herself. I don't know
if it works though since it is a little too extreme
for my taste. Bitch did the whole S&M
thing a lot better in the 80's in my
humble opinion. Still, The Great Kat shows an incredible
amount of skill when
it comes to playing the instruments and if you want your metal to
be
cyberspeed, gross, extreme and bombastic this might be something to at
least check out
because there is only one Kat in the world as she is very
clear to point out in her often
very naive and childish
interviews...
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