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Adam Rykala

About Me


First picked up a guitar in 1986-87 - Van Halen and Randy Rhoads made me wanna be a rock star! Earliest influences as well as these being George Lynch, Dave Meniketti and Alex Lifeson.
Played with no name bands in the 90's, till joining 9xDead precursors Distorshaus - withdrew from live playing to pursue other interests in 1999 till 2003, and then has spent time playing with hardcore punksters This System Kills (http://www.geocities.com/thissystemkills/ ), 9xDead (August of 2005 to early 2007) and lately a short stint in First of the Stygian (myspace ID: ukpowerthrash - check em out, very good guys!).
These songs are rough demo's of stuff, some may end up as song idea's and some may never again see the light of day. Very rough demo's - may contain nuts - contents will settle during transport.
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Member Since: 20/09/2005
Band Website: reverbnation.com/adamrykalaguitar
Band Members: Me
Influences: Rush, Blue Oyster Cult, Savatage, Dream Theatre, Fates Warning, Joe Satriani, George Lynch, A touch of Vai, Van Halen, Korplikaani, Y&T, Queensryche, Korn, Sabbath, Dio, Disturbed, Kate Bush, Aerosmith... in fact most stuff with an electric guitar.
Sounds Like: '91 Ibanez 540R HSS, Washburn HM24V Prototype, Washburn MG800, Washburn KC90v, Washburn MG74, all with Floyd Rose tremolo's. 6- and 12- string acoustic

Coming Soon - the Chimera!

Amp - Vetta II Head and 4x12" speaker cabinet, Line 6 FBV Longboard Foot Controller, AKG Guitar Wireless

Newest toy - Voice box ;-)

Dava and Dunlop Stubby plectrums

Recording - Logic Studio 8, TonePort GX + POD Farm AU Plugin, BCF2000 control surface and cheap midi keyboard, diet cola and ibruprofen!

Looking to play thrashy, trashy, sleazy, dirty, heavy, grindy rock/metal - influences are huge - plays lead/rhythm, 6 and 12 string, clean and dirty - hell - whatever the song requires!

I also collaborate on stuff with Daz

Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

The Crux of the matter

Crux is going real well. So far we have four songs done in only a handful of practises ... Two covers (Dio - Rainbow in the dark and Y&T - Rescue me) plus two originals. One of mine (temporarily calle...
Posted by on Sun, 09 Aug 2009 09:09:00 GMT

History Repeats

History Repeats features a weird little chromatic riff in the verse that is quite simple yet a bit of a swine .... its a little different..... ;-)
Posted by on Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:16:00 GMT

Crux

Crux may be the name of the new band, pending discussions but things are coming along nicely ...The backstory.... as in the bit that always starts the biography... ;-)I know Gareth and Tom through a v...
Posted by on Mon, 27 Jul 2009 02:28:00 GMT

Harsh / A Heresy

Two new tracks - A Heresy involves a little noodle riff I came up with whilst waiting for inspiration to strike, and Harsh is a nice little heavier number. I should also have some new stuff for Harris...
Posted by on Thu, 09 Jul 2009 05:26:00 GMT

Free Download of album "Voiceless"

I've now signed up to ReverbNation ( http://www.reverbnation.com/adamrykalaguitar ) and although I will keep using MySpace for promotion I will use it for new tracks. HOWEVER on ReverbNation I have co...
Posted by on Thu, 28 May 2009 08:35:00 GMT

Victorious and Wisdom Lost

Something a little more driving then usual, with a nice little single note fill to the main riff and an excuse to be a guitar wanker!Victorious is a bit of riffing and soloing in a bit of an ego strok...
Posted by on Tue, 26 May 2009 09:44:00 GMT

Over...........

Very very rough and an experiment in some silly idea's, just a little steam release. Been honing up my chops rather then songwriting recently... must make time for both!
Posted by on Fri, 22 May 2009 14:10:00 GMT

Welcome to Armour-Geddon!

Armour-geddon (http://www.armour-geddon.com / http://www.myspace.com/armourgeddonmusic) is the latest vehicle for my twisted six string ramblings - please add them as a friend as we're new!
Posted by on Mon, 18 May 2009 11:29:00 GMT

Intensity

Something with a lot of backwards ratiug.... ;_) I haven't had anywhere enough time to do stuff on the guitar recently ;(
Posted by on Tue, 12 May 2009 13:55:00 GMT

On the plains of Megiddo

ArmourGeddon have offered me the post of guitarist, with a payment rate of a Hobnob a week and all the cheese I can carry.With terms like that, I cant turn it down.Currently in the early days of writi...
Posted by on Sat, 09 May 2009 14:21:00 GMT