January 2019 – Blogging in Disguise

January 18, 2019

“Paradigms” named Instrumental Prog-Metal Album of the Year

2018 was a flourishing year, with a plethora of amazing records in the prog rock and prog metal genre. Today, I’m extremely honored to announce that “Paradigms” was named Instrumental Prog-Metal Album of the Year on Sonic Perspectives.

You know me, I don’t like music to be ranked, because it’s not a competition or a race for who’s the best. There is no best, only favorites. As the author put it best: “music is a subjective listening experience and our opinions are no more valid than yours”

Check out the best progressive metal albums of 2018 by Sonic Perspectives

Heartfelt thanks to Austin Kokel and Joel Barrios.

January 9, 2019

‘Paradigms’ Featured on ProgRock.com

I will be on the featured album of the week show of Progrock.com with ‘Paradigms’ on Friday January 11 (7pm UK time, 2pm EST) with DJ Peter O’Neill.
Come hang in the chatroom and ask me anything, and we’ll listen to a few tunes from Paradigms together www.progrock.com/chat.

-Shant

January 7, 2019

Guitar Surgery

It’s guitar surgery day.
This is my Ibanez RG3120. It’s getting old, I got it back in 2002. The control knobs and output jack started making crackling sounds lately. (I think somebody lives in there, and scrambles eggs every time I plug in).
Luckily I have a $10 soldering gun which is not cooperating for obvious reasons, and this is probably the second time I ever used a soldering gun, so expect things to go very, very terribly.