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Tosin Abasi

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Oluwatosin Ayoyinka Olumide "Tosin" Abasi (born January 7, 1983), is a Nigerian American musician, best known as the founder and lead guitarist of the instrumental progressive metal band Animals as Leaders. [1]

54 relations: Adrián Terrazas-González, Allan Holdsworth, Animals as Leaders, Animals as Leaders (album), Aphex Twin, Born of Osiris, Darkest Hour (band), DiMarzio, Djent, Dream Theater, Euroblast Festival, Fredrik Thordendal, G3 (tour), Generation Axe, Glam metal, Guitar World, Guitarist, Guthrie Govan, Ibanez RG2228, Incubus (band), Instrumental, Instrumental rock, Ishmael (novel), Joe Satriani, Lick (music), Meshuggah, Metalcore, Mike Einziger, Mike Keneally, Misha Mansoor, Musician, Navene Koperweis, Nigerian Americans, Nuno Bettencourt, Periphery (band), Progressive metal, Prosthetic Records, Radiohead, South by Southwest, Squarepusher, Steve Vai, Sumerian Records, The Joy of Motion, The Madness of Many, The Mars Volta, Thom Yorke, Transcendental Meditation technique, United States Armed Forces, Washington City Paper, Washington, D.C., ..., Weightless (Animals as Leaders album), Yngwie Malmsteen, Yoruba language, Zakk Wylde. Expand index (4 more) »

Adrián Terrazas-González

Adrián Terrazas-González (born October 17, 1975) is a composer and multi-instrumentalist who plays the flute, tenor saxophone, bass clarinet and percussion.

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Allan Holdsworth

Allan Holdsworth (6 August 1946 – 15 April 2017) was a British guitarist and composer.

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Animals as Leaders

Animals as Leaders is an American instrumental band from Washington, D.C. It currently consists of guitarists Tosin Abasi and Javier Reyes and drummer Matt Garstka, having been formed by Abasi in 2007.

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Animals as Leaders (album)

Animals as Leaders is the debut studio album by progressive metal group Animals as Leaders.

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Aphex Twin

Richard David James (born 18 August 1971), best known by his main alias Aphex Twin, is an Irish-born Cornish electronic musician best known for his influential and idiosyncratic work in styles such as ambient techno and IDM during the 1990s.

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Born of Osiris

Born of Osiris is an American technical deathcore band formed in 2003 in Palatine, a suburb of Chicago.

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Darkest Hour (band)

Darkest Hour is an American heavy metal band from Washington, D.C., formed in 1995.

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DiMarzio

DiMarzio, Inc. (original name: DiMarzio Musical Instrument Pickups, Inc.) is a United States manufacturer best known for its direct-replacement guitar pickups.

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Djent

Djent is a sub-genre of progressive metal, named for an onomatopoeia for the distinctive high-gain, distorted, palm-muted, low-pitch guitar sound first employed by Meshuggah.

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Dream Theater

Dream Theater is an American progressive metal band formed in 1985 under the name Majesty by John Petrucci, John Myung and Mike Portnoy while they attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Euroblast Festival

The Euroblast Festival is a heavy metal music festival taking place in Cologne, Germany since 2008.

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Fredrik Thordendal

Fredrik Thordendal (born February 11, 1970) is a Swedish musician, best known as the lead guitarist and backing vocalist for the Swedish extreme metal band Meshuggah, of which he is a founding member.

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G3 (tour)

G3 is a concert tour organized by guitarist Joe Satriani featuring him alongside two other guitarists.

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Generation Axe

Generation Axe are an American rock/heavy metal supergroup formed by Steve Vai in 2016.

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Glam metal

Glam metal (also known as hair metal and often used synonymously with pop metal) is a subgenre of heavy metal, which features pop-influenced hooks and guitar riffs, and borrows from the fashion of 1970s glam rock.

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Guitar World

Guitar World is a monthly music magazine devoted to guitarists, published since July 1980.

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Guitarist

A guitarist (or a guitar player) is a person who plays the guitar.

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Guthrie Govan

Guthrie Govan (born 27 December 1971) is an English guitarist and guitar teacher, known for his work with the bands The Aristocrats, Asia, GPS, The Young Punx and The Fellowship, as well as his solo project Erotic Cakes.

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Ibanez RG2228

The Ibanez RG2228 is the world's first mass-produced eight string electric guitar.

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Incubus (band)

Incubus is an American rock band from Calabasas, California.

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Instrumental

An instrumental is a musical composition or recording without lyrics, or singing, although it might include some inarticulate vocals, such as shouted backup vocals in a Big Band setting.

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Instrumental rock

Instrumental rock is rock music that emphasizes musical instruments and features very little or no singing.

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Ishmael (novel)

Ishmael is a 1992 philosophical novel by Daniel Quinn.

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Joe Satriani

Joseph Satriani (born July 15, 1956)Prato, Greg.

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Lick (music)

In popular music genres such as blues, jazz or rock music, a lick is "a stock pattern or phrase" consisting of a short series of notes used in solos and melodic lines and accompaniment.

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Meshuggah

Meshuggah is a Swedish progressive metal band from Umeå, formed in 1987.

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Metalcore

Metalcore is a fusion genre combining elements of extreme metal and hardcore punk.

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Mike Einziger

Michael Aaron Einziger (born June 21, 1976) is an American musician and guitarist and co-songwriter of the rock band Incubus.

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Mike Keneally

Michael Joseph Keneally (born December 20, 1961) is an American session guitarist, keyboardist, vocalist and composer.

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Misha Mansoor

Misha Mansoor (born October 31, 1984, in Bethesda, Maryland), also known as Bulb (the name of his solo project), is the founder and lead guitarist of the progressive metal band Periphery.

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Musician

A musician is a person who plays a musical instrument or is musically talented.

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Navene Koperweis

Navene Koperweis (born May 31, 1985) is an American drummer, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and producer, best known as the former drummer of Animosity and Animals as Leaders.

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Nigerian Americans

Nigerian Americans are Americans who are of Nigerian ancestry.

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Nuno Bettencourt

Nuno Duarte Gil Mendes Bettencourt (born September 20, 1966) is a Portuguese-American guitarist, singer-songwriter, and record producer.

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Periphery (band)

Periphery is an American progressive metal band based in Washington, D.C., formed in 2005.

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Progressive metal

Progressive metal (sometimes known as prog metal or technical metal) is a fusion genre melding heavy metal and progressive rock which combines the loud "aggression".

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Prosthetic Records

Prosthetic Records is an American record label specializing in heavy metal recordings, founded in Los Angeles, California in 1998 by E.J. Johantgen and Dan Fitzgerald, both former employees of Columbia Records.

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Radiohead

Radiohead are an English rock band from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, formed in 1985.

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South by Southwest

South by Southwest (abbreviated as SXSW and colloquially referred to as South By) is an annual conglomerate of film, interactive media, and music festivals and conferences that take place in mid-March in Austin, Texas, United States.

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Squarepusher

Squarepusher is the principal pseudonym adopted by Tom Jenkinson (born 17 January 1975), an English electronic musician.

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Steve Vai

Steven Siro Vai (born June 6, 1960) is an American guitarist, composer, singer, songwriter, and producer.

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Sumerian Records

Sumerian Records is an American independent record label based in Washington D.C. and Los Angeles.

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The Joy of Motion

The Joy of Motion is the third album by instrumental progressive metal group Animals as Leaders.

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The Madness of Many

The Madness of Many is the fourth album by Animals as Leaders, released in November 2016.

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The Mars Volta

The Mars Volta was an American progressive rock band from El Paso, Texas, formed in 2001.

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Thom Yorke

Thomas Edward Yorke (born 7 October 1968) is an English musician and composer, and the singer and principal songwriter of the alternative rock band Radiohead.

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Transcendental Meditation technique

The Transcendental Meditation technique or TM is a form of silent mantra meditation, developed by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

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United States Armed Forces

The United States Armed Forces are the military forces of the United States of America.

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Washington City Paper

The Washington City Paper is a U.S. alternative weekly newspaper serving the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States of America.

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Weightless (Animals as Leaders album)

Weightless is the second album by instrumental progressive metal group Animals as Leaders.

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Yngwie Malmsteen

Yngwie Johan Malmsteen (born Lars Johan Yngve Lannerbäck; 30 June 1963) is a Swedish guitarist and bandleader.

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Yoruba language

Yoruba (Yor. èdè Yorùbá) is a language spoken in West Africa.

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Zakk Wylde

Zakk Wylde (born Jeffrey Phillip Wielandt on January 14, 1967) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and occasional actor who is best known as the guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne, and founder of the heavy metal band Black Label Society.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tosin_Abasi

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