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This improvisation is here to be just that: a respite from intense screaming guitars. I like when a short atmospheric clean or acoustic track is inserted to break up the heavy tunes on an album. I really enjoy that approach, especially on Lamb of God’s Resolution or albums by Arch Enemy. I did the same thing with Believe in Nothing by my jazz-metal band Blue Prototype (blueprototype.bandcamp.com).

This is also played on my Epiphone tuned down to C, which I started doing because of Arch Enemy, Dream Theater, and Black Label Society, as well as 7-string jazz players like Jimmy Bruno. Sometimes you just want to hear the extra weight that downtuning can bring. This and “Doomsday Reverie” are the only tracks for which I had a form in mind before I started improvising. This one is actually a minor version of the chords from “Joy Spring” by the legendary trumpeter Clifford Brown.

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from Cognitive Dissonance, released August 1, 2018

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Mack Thompson Richmond, Virginia

Mack Thompson is a guitarist from Richmond, Virginia. He just tries to do the best he can with what he has. Major influences are Lamb of God, Arch Enemy, Ihsahn, Emperor, and Dream Theater but countless others have been very important.

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