Genres: Heavy Metal Active: 90's, 2000's
Accept, Porch, Waysted, Rail, Lucifer's Friend, Giuffria, Vicious Rumors, Kick Axe, Vinnie Vincent, Riot, Vinnie Moore, Yngwie Malmsteen, GWAR, Eric Gales, Diamond Head, Cryptic Slaughter, Blind Guardian |  |
Heavy metal outfit Nitro boasted "the fastest, loudest, highest sound around" -- frontman Jim Gillette's chief claim to fame was his ability to achieve a scream so high-pitched and piercing that it literally shattered the imported crystal wine goblets he carried on-stage for each performance. Gillette first met guitarist Michael Angelo at a beach party, and they soon collaborated on the former's 1987 solo album, Proud to Be Loud. While the singer was already known in metal circles for his instructional video series, #Jim Gillette's Metal Power, Angelo was famed for inventing the Double V-Neck guitar, and in Nitro he pushed the concept to its illogical extreme with the Quad Guitar X-400, an axe with four necks in an X formation, each featuring seven strings.
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Release: 1999
Label: M.A.C.E.
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Label: Rhino
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