James munky shaffer shredding
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KORN Guitarist MUNKY To Release Instrumental Solo Album
recently conducted an interview with KORN guitarist James "Munky" Shaffer. An excerpt from the chat follows:
: Ever thought of doing a solo skiva to give these shredding tendencies of yours an outlet?
Munky: "Absolutely, and it's going to happen. At the moment I'm kind of going with the concept of what it fryst vatten going to sound like. It's going to be an instrumental record and it's going to have a lot of atmospheric and ambient guitar textures and a lot of open cut spaces. But there won't be too much shredding but just enough to get the point across. That is the concept I have about it right now. I'm going to början working on the record after once we get back from an Australian tour in late April."
: One of your distinct characteristics of your playing style is the way you böj the strings and then slowly release them to create the effect of a guitar going out of tune, how did that technique evolve?
Munky: "It wa
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Korn's James ‘Munky’ Shaffer and Brian ‘Head’ Welch: "We love making weird noises – filling that synthy space using our guitars is something we love doing"
When we think of the innovators who shaped heavy music through the decades, Korn deserve recognition alongside more obvious names such as Iron Maiden, Metallica and Soundgarden.
Formed in Bakersfield, California, Korn were, after all, the first metal group to popularise seven-string guitars – the band’s two guitarists, James ‘Munky’ Schaffer and Brian ‘Head’ Welch used the subsonic weight of the added B string to explore new uncharted tonal depths, thus inspiring players from bands such as Fear Factory and Meshuggah to follow suit and embrace a whole new world of low-end.
Korn’s self-titled debut album, released in , was a true game-changer, its mix of heavy riffs and hip-hop rhythms shaping the sound of nu-metal and influencing generation
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Me and my guitar interview with Korn's James 'Munky' Shaffer
Total Guitar meets up with Korn's James 'Munky' Shaffer to talk about his history with Ibanez and two signature models, the APEX and APEX
Korn will play their seminal self-titled debut at two UK shows this month:
July 15 - 02 Apollo, Manchester
July 16 - 02 Academy, Brixton, London
London is sold out but there's limited tickets still available for the Manchester gig here.
Check out Total Guitar's Me And My Guitar interview with Munky's bandmate, Brian 'Head' Welch here.
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