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Requiem | 
 enlarge | Artist: John 5
Label: Adrenaline Records/60 Cycle Hum Records
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 12831
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.4
UPC: 811481010507
EAN: 0811481010507
ASIN: B0017R5UBY
Release Date: June 3, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Sounds Of Impalement | | • | Heretic's Fork | | • | Noisemaker's Fife | | • | Pity Belt | | • | Cleansing The Soul | | • | The Judas Cradle | | • | Pear Of Anguish | | • | The Lead Sprinkler | | • | Scavenger's Daughter | | • | Requiem |
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Product Description
John 5 is known as one of the best modern shredders around (2007 winner Best Shred Album of the Year for "The Devil Knows My Name" in Guitar World Reader's Poll). He's even likened to the Page or Hendrix of this generation. He's worked with Marilyn Manson, Rob Zombie, David Lee Roth, Leah Andreone, 2wo, Meat Loaf, Paul Stanley, Ryan Downe, Hazy Dreams, and Rodger Carter. This is his fourth solo effort.
Album Description
His fourth solo album Requiem sees him carry his work solely on his own back and again reinventing, remoulding and restyling sounds that have become a part of his own style but marrying them to those more unfamiliar. He also embarks on a Guitar Center tour of West Coast America. For John 5 this is the best way he feels he can repay the fans for all their support and loyalty over the past four years. 'You'll notice the tour is also free, and this is also me paying back to the fans and saying thank you for the support, for buying the albums.' 2008
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 Nu Shred August 31, 2008
Roadrunner (Central Coast CA)
This is new instrumental shred at it's finest! As the guitarist for Marilyn Manson and Rob Zombie , John 5 didn't have much room to show what he can really do. On his latest solo album Requiem, he comes at you with both guns blazing. It's the best "Shred Guitar" album I've heard in a very long time -- kinda like Halloween on acid and crystal meth without feeling like crap for a week afterwards!!
 John 5 has a massive arsenal of guitar playing methods. June 10, 2008
M. L. Goodwin (Santa Rosa, CA, USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a great album to come out a year after Devil Knows My Name. Some musicians come out with CD's every year and only one out of three albums turns out to be good because of it. John 5 is an exception to this rule though he plays songs that are different and always utilizes his bluegrass skills mixed with alternative and metal which is VERY unique. It is also important to note to Rob Zombie and Manson fans hes worked with them and still works with Rob Zombie. My only complaint about this album is the fact that he didn't double play on all of his tracks. I understand why he didn't do it and admitted in an interview that it's a painstaking process. He still did double play in some tracks but just not as much as he did in Devil Knows My Name, his last album. All around the last few tracks were fantastic and went together really well. In one song you hear a bluegrass song and then it slowly phases into a metal song which is great. It doesn't get repetitive and is a great successor off of The Devil Knows My Name. I would recommend also purchasing The Devil Knows My Name because these two albums go together really well.
Bring forth the fourth, but is it forced? June 7, 2008
Seth Richtsmeier (MA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
John Lowery's (stage name: John 5) first three solo albums vary in quality, and Requiem is somewhere in the middle. With Vertigo arguably ranked at the bottom of the ladder, and still a great album regardless, John's fourth effort probably ranks one rung above his first. There just isn't anything here that he hasn't done in his previous solo efforts. He played around with more instruments in the past, had a few guest musicians, and there was sense of a need of appreciation for his chops. Now it's like he's simply trying to throw together a solid set of songs using the same styles of old. This works, but we've heard this before. A welcomed consistency is that the songs are performed with feeling and maturity, which makes for a better album. Has John put out a fourth just because Rob Zombie was on hold? Maybe not, but it sounds somewhat forced.
With a new Zombie album on the horizon and John once again on board, Requiem should unexpectedly hold off fans for a moment. Songs such as "Heretic's Fork" and "The Judas Cradle" are dark, eerie, and sound quite similar to the new Zombie style. Obviously there are screaming solos scattered about that aren't typical in Zombie material, but the correlation in general is there. Tommy Clufetos (also of Rob Zombie) handles drums throughout the album, too.
It may not be noticeable at first, but some of the songs fit together as the album goes along. Imagine a hurricane passing overhead - "Heretic's Fork" ends with the same heavy riff it started with and sort of drags into "Noisemaker's Fife," which soon becomes calm, clean playing - the eye of the storm. Then the riff picks up again and the hurricane rumbles on. These two tracks together, which could really be one song, make up a nine-and-a-half-minute extravaganza. The very next pair of songs, "Pity Belt" and "Cleansing the Soul," offers a different approach to melding. The former is a playful banjo piece under two minutes in length, and ends in a crescendo with the latter coming in with guitar and drums.
Forced or not, Requiem is solid and certainly impressive, which is easily becoming an expectation of John. Newcomers should start with his early material, and for those who already have all of it, adding this to your collection wouldn't hurt.
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