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White Lightning

There's no 'H' in ''eavy metal'!

About Me

One hot summer's day in 2005, this guy named Peter thought it'd be a bright idea to ask a certain Captain Thunderpants he knew to sing and play some guitar for his band, White Lightning, as the original singer (by the name of Jessica Sylvia) had moved to Hawaii. Little did Peter know what he was getting his band into. There has been a cosmic battle between Captain Thunderpants and his arch-nemesis, Dr. Meanberger, for quite some time, and now White Lightning must be a part of it. Still, it doesn't stop them from writing some truly ripping heavy metal, because if there's one thing Dr. Meanberger hates (apart from Captain Thunderpants and all of you, of course), it's heavy metal. That said, you should go check White Lightning out. I'm sure Dr. Meanberger won't kill you for it or anything like that.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/17/2006
Band Website: Right heah.
Band Members: Tony Cordes - Lead and backup vocals, second guitar
Peter Sylvia - First guitar
El Gran Cojón Luchante - Drums
Minion (Andy Sylvia) - Bearer of foodstuffs and beverage... oh yeah, and he plays the bass.

Influences: Gamma Ray, Helloween, Judas Priest, Manowar, Iron Maiden, Cacophony, Blind Guardian, Running Wild, Dio, Angra, Rhapsody, Last Empire (we'll not try and imitate the latter's sound, but we look up to those cats a lot), Fear, the Germs, Al DiMeola, Brahms, Bach, Mendelssohn, Beethoven, beer... the list goes on.
Sounds Like: True metal; no grunts, no breakdowns, no bullshit.
Record Label: Fingerpainting with your hands cut off.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Dr. Meanbergers Sinister Plot EP!

Some time this August I think we might just be done with it.  We've recorded three of the songs on there, I made the intro track at home, and once we record the last one it'll just be a matter of...
Posted by White Lightning on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 01:15:00 PST

September 29th, 2007 at the Know.

Last night rocked. We got to the Know and the turnout wasn't too great at all, but they started coming in a few at a time while ESD played (by the way, power to them for stickin' it through a rough se...
Posted by White Lightning on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 12:32:00 PST

Solidarity, my brethren!

While at our show at Rock n' Roll Pizza last night (which was fucking awesome, thanks to all the true metal bands that came and played), I talked to Darius, Brian and Pat from Last Empire ov...
Posted by White Lightning on Sun, 29 Jul 2007 01:37:00 PST

Aha! Closer!

So Matt has his new drum kit now (it's pretty roighteous, brah) and it looks like we'll be recording a week from tomorrow!  Doesn't necessarily mean a demo, but it means you can hear what we soun...
Posted by White Lightning on Fri, 20 Apr 2007 10:30:00 PST

Bollocks!

Well, we finally got sick of the ass-awful excuses for song recordings we had up, so I took the liberty of taking 'em down.  We'll be recording stuff a bit more professionally (a bit) within the ...
Posted by White Lightning on Thu, 26 Oct 2006 12:53:00 PST