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LOCRIAN MIST
OFFICIAL ONLINE LOCRIAN MIST FORUM
LOCRIAN MIST MYSPACE GROUP
- groups.myspace.com/locrianmist
ALBUM REVIEW FROM LUNAR-HYPNOSIS.COM
Locrian Mist is one man, John Taylor, doing some amazing things with a guitar. He’s only been playing about ten years, but he’s apparently spent most of those years practicing mightily.
If you’re a fan of Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, John Petrucci or the bands Edguy, Dragonforce or Sonata Arctica, you might really enjoy what John’s doing with Locrian Mist. He even throws us death metal fiends a bone with "Endless Void". Opeth better sleep with their skates on!
On his Myspace profile, John writes that one of his goals is to be the fastest guitar player ever known. I haven’t heard them all, but it sounds to me like he’s well on his way toward that goal.
Don’t think it’s just gratuitous flagellation. What John’s doing with Locrian Mist is extremely bewitching, harmonic, exuberant, and above all well done. Technically beautiful and emotionally heartening, I can only hope that in another ten years’ time, I’ll be reading interviews with him in Guitar World. ’Til then, I’ll wear this EP out on rainy afternoons, and hope for a full length sometime soon!
June 17, 2006 By Ginnie Moon 10 of 10
Electronian Mist is my electronic music project.
This is Envinity, a side band I’m in.

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Music:

Member Since: 8/27/2005
Band Website: locrianmist.com
Band Members: John Taylor - Guitars and Vocals
All other instruments have been programmed using Reason 3.0
Influences: Iron Maiden
Helloween
Slayer
Morbid Angel
Mercyful Fate
Summoning
Emperor
Cryptopsy
Stratovarius
Yngwie Malmsteen
Opeth
Azeron
Envinity
Sounds Like: Most people hear Iron Maiden come out in my writing. Other bands that come out are Helloween, Slayer, Morbid Angel, and Opeth.

Type of Label: None

My Blog

Challenge Me

I’d like everyone who reads this to give me a riff / lick / etc. to play that is extremely difficult. I need to keep pushing myself to better myself at the guitar. So if you’ve got somet...
Posted by Locrian Mist on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:33:00 PST

Bleeding Mirror/New Material

Just a recap on something going on for me musically, I was recently hired to work on an upcoming demo for the band Bleeding Mirror. I finally finished my first solo for the demo and have put it up for...
Posted by Locrian Mist on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:02:00 PST

Love and the mind

Seems to me that just about everyone I know is going through some sort of love related thing, or dealing with problems with their minds, or both. It's rather odd that this all seems to be happening e...
Posted by Locrian Mist on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 06:20:00 PST

Morbid Optimism Interview

This is taken off the website MorbidOptimism.comhttp://www.morbidoptimism.com/lmtmtmtsg.ht mlBrowsing through little known artists, I recently found one of the sickest guitarist/composers I've had the ...
Posted by Locrian Mist on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:08:00 PST

2nd Video Up

As per the request of a few people; I have posted a 2nd video with distorted guitar. The sound is dreadful though. But, you can still make most of it out. Hopefully some of you enjoy it. Turn your...
Posted by Locrian Mist on Fri, 21 Dec 2007 08:48:00 PST

Preview song updated

Just what the subject suggests... the preview song has been updated! Tonight, I have finished the guitars for a new song. I also wrote lyrics for it tonight, but I won't be able to record said lyric...
Posted by Locrian Mist on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 08:15:00 PST

Clean guitars finished.

Yup. That's what I just did. Turned out I had the wrong output selected on my Boss when I recorded... but during playback I didn't even notice. Oh well! Now I get to adjust my Ibanez to start work...
Posted by Locrian Mist on Sun, 09 Dec 2007 11:33:00 PST

First Video!!!!!

'ello people. Recently I got a new phone that can make videos. So, I tried it out tonight, and put up the video I made. I'm not really playing anything in particular... just doin' some improv. Hop...
Posted by Locrian Mist on Fri, 07 Dec 2007 08:48:00 PST

Recording Process

Today I finished redoing To Hell With All of You. Tomorrow (Sun.) I hope to finish the clean guitars for Endless Void, and then begin working on a new song. If I get far enough in the new song I'll ...
Posted by Locrian Mist on Sun, 02 Dec 2007 01:15:00 PST

Taking a short break

So instead of attending either of two Thanksgiving dinner invites I decided to stay home, and record. Right now I'm taking a break before doing the end solo for Endless Void. Next comes all the clea...
Posted by Locrian Mist on Fri, 23 Nov 2007 07:49:00 PST