Mats Lexell - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Hey! :D
I'm a 19 year old guitar player from Sweden. I like lots of different styles of music including metal, jazz, rock, classical, instrumental rock, progressive, grunge, funk, blues and so on.

hereâ€™s my gear:

Guitar: Ibanez RG7620 (7-string)

Second Guitar: Line6 Variax 700

Bass Guitar: Ibanez BTB06 LTD

Keyboard: Korg TR61 Workstation

Pedal board: Line 6 Pod XT Live

Drums: Beatcraft (software)

Recording: Adobe Audition

I've played guitar since January 2004, and piano since forever. If you want to find out more about me check my homepage. Here, I'm just gonna let the music speak for itself :D
Feel free to add me :D and keep visiting to check out for new songs! :)

Take Care ;)

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/21/2006
Band Website: matslexell.se/
Band Members: Guitars, keyboard, bass, drum programming & producing - Mats Lexell ;)
Influences:
John Butler performing "Ocean". Really cool!

Blue Powder performed by the amazing Steve Vai.

The man Mike Portnoy playin’ a solo sometime in the early 90s

These other influences is in no particular order. Every now and then I’ll just add some bands or musicians that I felt played a significant part for me. Although some that’s very important might not even include on the list:Dream Theater
Steve Vai
Symphony X
Ayreon
Liquid Tension Experiment
Joe Satriani
Paul Gilbert
Marco Sfogli
Led Zeppelin
Pink Floyd
The Beatles
Jimi Hendrix
Eric Clapton
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Ozzy
Dio
Ritchie Blackmore (Deep Purple/Rainbow)
Thin Lizzy
Van Halen
Frank Zappa
Jethro Tull
Blind Guardian
Metallica
Megadeth
Opeth
Porcupine Tree
Katatonia
Zakk Wylde & Black label society
Rush
Guns ’n’ Roses
Soundgarden
Alice In Chains
Foo Fighters
Whitesnake
Meshuggah
Threat Signal
Malmsteen
Frank Gambale
Rusty Cooley (outworld)
Jason Becker
Richie Kotzen
Greg Howe
Derek Sherinian
Arch Enemy
Nightwish
Aryeon
Iron Maiden
Children of Bodom
Pearl Jam
John Butler
McLaughlin
Mahavishnu Orchestra
Shakti
Paco de Lucia
Al DiMeola
Miles Davis
Pat Metheny
Allan Holdsworth
Mozart
Bach
Genesis
Emerson, Lake & Palmer

+lots of other stuff ;)

Some clips of ideas:

Check out the rest Here

Sounds Like:
Record Label: MLP, Mats Lexell Productions :p
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

New Track: Shades of Grey

Yepp, another new track. Shades of Grey, the first piece to include some variax 700 stuff. Took me quite a while, but probably my most ambitious project so far :D. Klick here to download it in b...
Posted by Mats Lexell on Sun, 23 Mar 2008 06:44:00 PST

New Song: In The Sky

Yep, I've finished a new song, it's called In The Sky, hope you'll like it. The next one will definitely include some parts made with my new Line6 Varax 700!!! :DI'll update my profile soon and post p...
Posted by Mats Lexell on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 12:49:00 PST

New song up: Heroes

My new song is called 'Heroes'. I used the Korg TR 61 for some cool keyboard parts.Enjoy!
Posted by Mats Lexell on Sat, 24 Nov 2007 08:52:00 PST

Remix: Under The Water

Yep, I've updated the drumming, bass and all the solos to Under the Water. Listen to it Here or at my profile. Sounds way better than the old version made 18 mounth ago.Enjoy!...
Posted by Mats Lexell on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 01:32:00 PST

New Song up: Awake For Evermore

Finally done with the new song. Took me a great deal of time due tons of other stuff to do. Anyway I hope you'll enjoy it Btw: Listen to it here for better quality...
Posted by Mats Lexell on Fri, 03 Aug 2007 03:10:00 PST