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Michael
Knight – Electric Horrorland KM
– Records – 2007
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Inspired by the video games he plays, guitarist
Michael Knight returns with a buzzsaw of guitar riffs and unabashed
soloing, all played within the dark realms he is passionate about. I felt like I was riding along the blade of a
running chainsaw in “Twisted Metal.”
The chugging main part claws away at you until he gets beneath your
skin. Knight plays like he is playing as fast as he
possibly can to stave off death in “Soul Scorcher.” The heavy rhythm guitar that comes in about 3-minute mark in
is killer. I was pleasantly surprised to hear atmospheric,
spooky “Stalk” an audio cut from the Episode “The Downfall of Johnny
Garrett” from the movie EVIL STREETS.
I honestly didn’t know Mike was putting this on this CD. There is fun exchanging of guitar soloing styles
in “Resident Evil.” Knight
goes from bluesy to explosion and then back again. I fell right into the one-man mosh pit in
“Quake.” Michael Knight almost becomes Buckethead-like with his fast
soloing and death-metal riffs. He
even gets the KFC shredder’s tonality in parts of the track.
This also makes sense since Bucket freely admits that he plays a
lot of music with video games in mind. The album’s title track “Electric Horrorland”
is the cue that was used in EVIL STREETS where Johnny Garrett (Steve
Rodriguez) meets the vengeful spirit friend of the girl Sheila (Nicole Bryl) he raped. I really like how the rhythm guitar drops out
while Michael solos in “Shadow Creeper” because you get to focus on
his cool fretwork. “Ghost
Recon” has a hypnotic heavy pattern that is like a machine. “The Haunt” is a little mood piece also from
EVIL STREETS. It was used in
the scene Sheila was walking home from the train station and unbeknownst
to her was being followed by Johnny Garrett. Knight is in full video game mood with
“Driver.” The song moves
fast and furious. I like the
slide, southern guitar touches to the middle solo. “Watcher in the Woods” could be my favorite
track off the album and was the track used at the end of “The Downfall
of Johnny Garrett” in EVIL STREETS.
Knight creates this nasty, scary high-pitched fluctuating voice
like part, with a heavy dark wicked guitar rhythm over the top of it. The high string picked at the end makes it creepy as hell.
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