To my fellow Melbournians who have posted thus so far, I'm Harry, lived in the western suburbs my whole life, went to high school in Williamstown and Newport and I reside in Altona Meadows, south western 'burbs, so if any Melbourne dudes live near by I honestly don't mind if people want to drop me a PM, grab my address and/ or phone number and want to jam.
I guess the first metal band I got into was Iron Maiden, but when I started to play electric guitar, it was the Bay Area thrash bands that really made me listen more closely to metal and I began to incorporate that into my playing.
Over time, I started to become more diverse with my taste, listening to everything from 70s prog rock, post hardcore, mathcore, some jazz fusion, death metal, progressive death metal, post rock, post metal and quite a few other stuff, but of course like many fellow Sneap forumites my heart is mainly in metal when it comes to listening and playing. Never really liked power metal so much though to be honest.
As you can see from my signature, I'm a 7 string player and have been a 7 stringer since March this year. Fortunately a reasonable understanding of theory meant I was able to start incorporating the 7th string fairly quickly into my both my rhythm and lead guitar approach. I'm sure as fuck no Jeff Loomis for technique and general awesomeness, but I am reasonably skilled on the instrument. I can play bass too, but it's definitely not my main thing.
Bands I'm loving right now include Nevermore, Opeth, Between the Buried and Me, The Faceless, Protest the Hero, Isis, Pelican, maudlin of the Well, Kayo Dot, Sylosis, Agalloch, SikTh, OHM: (jazz fusion band that has former Megadeth guitarists Chris Poland on guitars, amazing stuff), Meshuggah, Gojira and In Flames.
Currently not in a band and haven't been since November last year since my drummer and bassist whom I'm still good friends with ultimately moved onto other interests and aspects of life so we had to call it a day unfortunately.
