Greg Stritzel - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Greg Stritzel is a 26 year-old musician, composer, and Father from McHenry Illinois. Greg is a self-taught guitarist, drummer, keyboardist, bassist, and vocalist who strives to take each instrument to its fullest. Aside from the performing aspect, Greg also works as the full time drummer, producer and sound engineer for the band Asylum Days and composer Dominik Zieba. Also, Greg is a part of the deadly duo, Bon Appetight, which reinvents the cooking realm with a metal makeover! Finding time to write, record, mix, master, and produce music can be sometimes hard to find due to his busy schedule, so new material may not be posted as often as he would like. Currently, Greg is working on a solo cd entitled "CTRL-ALT-DEL" which is primarily focused on computers, technology, and gory horror induced concepts. The first track "Hexadecimal Havoc" has been posted along with some "Idea Tracks" which are currently being worked into new compositions.
Enjoy your stay in the realm of CTRL-ALT-DEL.
Binary Apocalypse Promo
^^Binary Apocalypse Promo (demo)^^

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/18/2006
Band Members: All Compositions, Arrangements, Drums, Bass, Guitars, Keyboards, and Vocals were Written, Performed, Recorded, Mixed, and Mastered by Greg Stritzel.
Influences: Spastic Ink, Computers and technology, Pagan's Mind, Cannibal Corpse, Nightwish, Yngwie Malmsteen, Horror Films, Mike Mangini, Bobby Jarzombek, Michael Romeo, Virgil Donati, Michael Angelo Batio, and pretty much anything else that gives me a spark to write something ridiculous and goofy:) Most recent compositions are mostly influenced by the combination of gore and computers (what a combo). It can be most accurately compared to being slaughtered by numbering systems and computer hardware, eventually leading to the complete extinction of mankind.
Sounds Like: Wide variances of metal with prog influences. In this project, I have decided to write in the genre of "Nerd Metal", which all of the lyrics and song titles are derived from "The Deluxe Edition A+ Complete Study Guide". Its like having a computer lesson in each musical experience.

Type of Label: None

My Blog

Binary Apocalypse!!!!!!!

Ok, I finally got around to recording the guitar and bass tracks for my newest song for the CTRL-ALT-DEL album. It is called Binary Apocalypse, and is roughly about computers taking over the wor...
Posted by Greg Stritzel on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 02:09:00 PST

Fun with Myspace.

Well, I thought I would have a little fun with the myspace music player and use one of those fancy "hit generator" programs. Well, it worked wonderfully. I got over 5 million generated pla...
Posted by Greg Stritzel on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:36:00 PST

AOTF Studio Update!

Hey Everyone, For the past few months, I have had the pleasure of recording the band Art Of The Flesh in my home studio. Everything has been going great. Last Saturday, ...
Posted by Greg Stritzel on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 04:58:00 PST

Binary Apocalypse updates...

Just as an update on the new CTRL-ALT-DEL track, the drums have been recorded as of yesterday afternoon. It was a long battle with many tempo changes, but the war is over (with the drums, that i...
Posted by Greg Stritzel on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 04:43:00 PST

New Song Written!!!

Hey, Greg of CTRL-ALT-DEL here just letting everyone know that while I was stuck in Oklahoma City for a month for work, I wrote a new song. It is entitled, "Binary Apocalypse" and quite roughly,...
Posted by Greg Stritzel on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 05:14:00 PST

Next Project

Hey everyone. I am currently working on laying down the vocal, bass, and keyboard tracks to the second track on the CTRL-ALT-DEL album. The song is entitled "Direct Memory Address". ...
Posted by Greg Stritzel on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 07:22:00 PST

Hexidecimal Havoc Done!!!!

Hey everybody. Im sure most of you know from all the bulletins, but Hexidecimal Havoc is finally done!!! It is the first track on my music player below. Thanks for tuning in and enjo...
Posted by Greg Stritzel on Thu, 31 May 2007 10:48:00 PST

The story behind "Music for John"

I have had the great privilege of working with an awesome friend, John Frost. John asked me to write a 90 second piece of music that has a mild build up to it and is emotional. This audio was to be us...
Posted by Greg Stritzel on Sat, 20 Jan 2007 05:46:00 PST

Audio Quality Disappointment

Later after posting a few scratch tracks of Direct Memory Address and a few others, I saddly realized that the mp3's that I uploaded sound like the bitrate has been chopped in half. There is not...
Posted by Greg Stritzel on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 09:12:00 PST