Matt from Two Guys Metal Reviews conducted a transcontinental interview with Xander Demos:
So Xander can you introduce yourself?
Yes! Hello everybody my name is Xander Demos from Pittspurg Pennsylvania I am a guitar player of the metal style (Laughter). I am in several different bands right now including my own solo band.
Can you tell us a bit about your new album?
Guitarcadia was basically an album that was under construction for quite a few years. I released an EP called Road to Guitarcadia with a limited budget just to get some things out there. All Five of the songs that appeared on that album appeared on Guitarcadia. Guitarcadia was an album I always wanted to do. I had the name for a number of years I thought it would be a cool album name. Finally we were all done recording it January this year when it was sent to Cj Snare for it to be mixed and mastered and it was released in February as planned.
The first time I heard I thought it sounded like something that Shrapnel Records would have released in the 80s. Was that a goal of yours?
Yes it actually was. Got to be honest I was a huge Shrapnel Record fans and as a guitarist I’m really into instrumental music so that was where I was going with that. The new album I’m working on, Dancing Through Daggers has a vocalist and different band members. So a lot of the make up of the song writing is different now. Where I had 8 instrumentals and 2 vocals tunes on Guitarcadia, I have 7 vocal tunes and 3 instrumentals on the albums that’s going to be coming out.
When can we expect that?
That’ll be out probably next year we’ve got the 3 instrumentals already written and two vocal tunes already written. The other 5 I’m going to do with my band.
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