Khaled Athimni

Khaled Athimni is a Tunisian virtuoso metal guitarist that combines influences from Classical music, exotic music and neoclassic metal. Khaled started to play guitar at the age of 16 after getting his first lessons from his friend and guitar teacher Khalil Nawali. He was very much self taught from the learning licks of his favorites players. Very soon he started to play in some local bands like Black Angels (Bass guitar player), HolyVic (Lead Guitar)... However, he continued to evolve in various music styles such as blues, exotic metal, heavy metal... But the biggest inspiration at this time came to him from classical music of course works of masters (Bach, Brahms, Paganini, Vivaldi...) and traditional exotic music. 18 February 2002 his friend Khalil (Carthagods’s lead guitar) passed away. Mars 2002 Khaled joined the band Carthagods and replace Khalil Nawali as lead guitar player in the band. 2005 he discovered that he has a serious desease (diabetes) which led him to very bad health situation (with shaking body everything doesn't work!!) He is almost finishing up his first instrumental solo album, which is to be released by the end of mars 2008. The album will cover a range of styles mixing Heavy metal, exotic metal, and Neoclassical. Stay in tune it’s coming soon...