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Maelstrom

Can you keep up?

About Me



I'm a guitarist and vocalist, 7 non-consecutive years experience on the guitar. I am currently putting together the right line-up for a Heavy Metal Band. I've also worked with special make-up effects for 10 years now. Some of my make-up and animatronic design is featured at Thrillvania .

If interested in some of my classical compositions: Classical Works

If you are a Keys/synth player or bassist in search of a Neoclassical/Thrash/Melodic Heavy Metal band, or are just an enthusiast of Metal: Maximaelstrom

Legolas Greenleaf

If I were a character in The Lord of the Rings , I would be Legolas, Elf, a son of the King of Mirkwood.

In the movie, I am played by Orlando Bloom .

Who would you be?
Zovakware Lord of the Rings Test with Perseus Web Survey Software





Headless Havoc

Lop some blocks off

My Interests

Guitar, Music, Music Composition, Art, Heavy Metal, Special Make-up Effects, Horror Movies, Mechanics, Science, Philosophy

I'd like to meet:

Brothers and sisters of metal, fellow musicians, artists, fans / art admirers, pursuers of knowledge, inventors, scientists, philosophers, intellectual individuals... Lady Death(see above)

Please understand I am a very busy person, and even how much I appreciate those who would befriend me, I cannot respond so swiftly with replies and comments. Don't take it personal, my time is consumed by music/work related activities.

Band friend request have been disabled(due to spam). If you would like for me to give your band a listen, send me a message and I will take it into thought. :)

Music:

Bands- Blind Guardian, Children of Bodom, King Diamond, Mercyful Fate, Symphony X, Richard Tull, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Yngwie Malmsteen, Pantera, Outworld, 3 Inches of Blood, Nightwish, Megadeth, Helloween, Sinergy, Stratovarious, Opeth, Sonata Artica, Iced Earth, Manowar, Demons & Wizards, Rhapsody, The Great Kat, , Cradle of Filth, Testament, Hypocrisy, Hamerfall, Finntroll, Falconer Arch Enemy, Never Dead, Withered Dreams, Bat Castle, Diamonion .... too many to list

Composers- Danny Elfman, John Williams, Jan Van Der Roost, Jerry Goldsmith, Yo Yo Ma, Paganini, Mozart, Holst, Wagner, Fucik, Bach, Sousa, Beethoven, Chopin, Ravel, Saint-Saenc, Handel, Stravinsky, Haydn, Dvorak, Brahms, Vivaldi, Tchaikovsky, Philip Glass, Dave Grusin...

Movies:

Evil Dead 1&2, Army of Darkness, Phantasm 1,2,3, & 4, Demon Knight, Bordello of Blood, All of the "Living Deads" Blade 1,2, & 3 Ricki-Oh, Fist of the Northstar, New Fist of the Northstar, Vampire Hunter D, Casshern, Izo, Ichi the Killer, Azumi, Equilibrium, American Psycho, The Prestige, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Lady Death, Saving Private Ryan, Band of Brothers, Letters from Iwo Jima, Platoon, Enemy at the Gates, Soldier, Braveheart, Starship Troopers, Total Recall, Star Wars, Premutos, Zombie Doom, Bad Taste, Batman, Krull, The Dark Crystal, Street Trash, All Nightmares on Elm Streets, All Friday the 13ths, The Blob(1980), Alien 1,2,3,4, Terminator 1&2, Interview with a Vampire, Fright Night 1&2, The Howling Series, The Adams Family, all of the Hellraiser's, Drunken Master, Girl with a Pearl Earing, History of the World Part 2(any Mel Brooks movie) Monty Python movies, the works of Andrew Lloyd WebberMy tastes lean towards Horror, Science Fiction, Historical and Fantasy.It will take me a while to flesh this section out more. Stay tuned!

Television:


Mythbusters, Junkyard Wars, MacGuyver, Ninja Warrior Monster Garage, The 3 Stooges-"Niagra Falls!", MXC, Maximum Exposure, MAD TV, Hercules, Xena, Star Trek TNG/DS9/VOY, The Outer Limits (new), War of the Worlds the Series(1988), Tales from the Crypt, Tales from the Darkside, Lexx(the unrated versions), UFC, The Tonight Show(only for "headlines")How It's Made, Modern Marvels, and various History channel documentaries. UCTV, UHAUS, FSTV,

Books:

Something Wicked This Way Comes
Dandelion Wine- Ray Bradbury

The Moral Animal An Introduction to Evolutionary Psychology-Robert Wright

The Origin of the Species -Charles Darwin

The Mind and the Brain
Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force- Jeffery M. Shwartz M.D.,and Sharon Begley

The Fantasy Art Techniques of Tim Hildebrandt- Jack E. Norton

The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla - Seifer

The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
6 Not So Easy Pieces
Quantum Electro Dynamics -Richard P. Feynman

Might is Right- Ragnar Redbeard

Complete Tales & Poems- Edgar Allen Poe

The Screenwriter's Bible- Trottier

and many more...

Heroes:

My guitar...

My Blog

Inspiring

InspiringConversations on the subject  of love, spoken through body languagecan become annunciated        & nbsp;       &...
Posted by Maelstrom on Mon, 16 Jun 2008 09:50:00 PST

SOF2 Single Player fun with cheats and bugs!

You may have seen the pics in my Soldier of Fortune photo album showing some wierd and funny bugs I found while bored. In the game later on as the story progresses, you find yourself locked up in a pr...
Posted by Maelstrom on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:41:00 PST

Did you know Im a FPS master?

Work in ProgressWarning... loads of gamer jargon and game references ahead...I recently uploaded a few screenshots still laying around from my days playing First person shooters. And I thought I'd sha...
Posted by Maelstrom on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 04:44:00 PST

Another new poem

My latest poem is a freestyle metrical rhyme. My use of rhyme was not to focus on phonetics or sonic interaction, but rather to represent something within the plot.I wrote this one to a concise length...
Posted by Maelstrom on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:05:00 PST

My first professional poem!

I thought that I'd share my latest poetry apart from song lyrics. I consider this my first professional work for my poetry portfolio. For those readers who are new to the poetry experience, this is a ...
Posted by Maelstrom on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 03:54:00 PST

My Interview in QuickDFW

I appologize for the lateness in informing everyone of this but Halloween season is an extremely busy time for me.He is my interview in October 26th, 2007's issue of QuickDFW. (page 9)First off I woul...
Posted by Maelstrom on Mon, 12 Nov 2007 09:28:00 PST

More poetry

For Deathhow I could not wait to grow olderplucked most ripely seasoned and weatheredto shake the hand that taps my shoulderwhen my stem is finitely severedthe wind slumps breathing an elegy atop the ...
Posted by Maelstrom on Tue, 08 May 2007 12:24:00 PST

Guitar/Music Lessons

SO.... recently I have gained confidence in my music knowledge and skill level on guitar to start offering lessons and instruction.  My lessons will be focused on: Rhythem / Lead techniques,...
Posted by Maelstrom on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 07:06:00 PST

Think before adding any friend request

Be on the look out for fake profiles.Some indications of a fake profile.-Few Friends-Few blogs-If any of their "about me" content is just lame and generic, not thought out very well basically giving t...
Posted by Maelstrom on Sun, 25 Mar 2007 06:59:00 PST

Another poem...

Powerful events have the strange ability to resonate through time. Once again events from the past haunted my mind over the past month. I wrote a poem during some of the recent course of  time's...
Posted by Maelstrom on Wed, 06 Dec 2006 04:13:00 PST