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BIOGRAPHY-Michael Lee Ostrander
Location-Albuquerque, New Mexico
Style-Shred Metal, Techno Shred Metal and Bluesy Rock Instrumentals
Endorsed by DiMarzio pickups and Dava picks
New endorsment by IBANEZ GUITARS
Michael is an Instrumental Guitarist with 30 years of Metal/Industrial and Rock Band, Studio, Touring and Live Performance experience , recently signed to MYSTERIA Records
Michael’s music has a very unique sound, having the appeal of Shred but avoiding the clichés of the style and forging his own voice on the instrument and within the genre of Instrumental music…The Unknown Shredders guitar style is unmistakable and unconventional, yet melodic and fast enough to appease fans of Shred without being strictly Neoclassical
“I Shred, Therefore, I Am” is Michaels most versatile effort to date, The guitarist is branching out from his Shred Metal roots with a couple of Bluesy/Rock tunes that have serious grooves and a Non-Metal approach to the solos…Theres also a song that captures the sound of Arabic instruments,all done with a guitar and a Whammy pedal
Michael perform’s Live sans band with backing tracks and has opened for Favored Nations Recording Artist ANDY TIMMONS at a Mesa Boogie/Ibanez performance clinic in Sept 2006 and 80’s Metal act GREAT WHITE, which was his 1st show performing as a One-Man Band in the late 90’s-Being his first show as a One-Man band Michael didn’t know what to expect ,but the 800+ crowd went nuts…They loved it!!!
Michael has also opened for ULI ROTH,MICHAEL SCHENKER and BLUES SARACENO with his former band SYSTEMIC and has been featured in Guitar Player magazine, Guitar 2001 Magazine and on Guitar Nine.com
Distribution has just begun being secured around the globe with Japan
with the One-Man Shred Machine’s musical offerings
Released in 1998 Michael‘s 1st Full-Length CD “Tomb of the Unknown Shredder” garnered tons of play’s on the net and a very enthusiastic response on MP3.com, 2 New Mexico Music Industry Coalition Awards, sold close to 2000 CD’s independently, as well as some great review’s in the underground fanzine /webzine scene
The New Jersey native,who has resided in Albuquerque since age 16 was described as “Joe Satriani on Acid” by one author and Andy Timmons was quoted as saying,when he took the stage after Michael’s set “Wow, Maybe, I should take some lessons from that guy!!”
Michael has also been in various Metal bands since arriving on the desert soil, the most notable and recent being SYSTEMIC
The group disbanded in 2004, but not before releasing 2 CD’s,playing lots of Live shows and opening for the Guitar heroes mentioned above as well as Motorhead, Drowning Pool, Adema and American Head Charge
, Michael is storming the Internet with websites featuring his music for listen and sale and its paying off with 8 Tracks of the Day, 1 Track of the Week and Numerous Reviewers Pick Awards on Garageband.com
Michael was also featured in a column entitled My Space Hordes in GUITAR PLAYER magazine’s October 2008 issue
www.theunknownshredder.com
www.myspace.com/michaelleeostrander
www.youtube.com/hd147man
www.davapick.com
www.garageband.com/michaelleeostrander
Contact-Michael Ostrander
3522 Wyoming Blvd NE Apt 101
Albuquerque,NM 87111
