- REVIEWS!
Reviews of GREAT KAT DVD/CDs/CD-ROM:
- KAT DVD: "Extreme
Guitar Shred"
- KAT CDs: "Wagner's
War," "Rossini's Rape," "Bloody Vivaldi," "Guitar
Goddess," "Beethoven On Speed," "Worship Me Or Die!"
- KAT CD-ROM: "Digital
Beethoven On Cyberspeed"
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GUITAR WORLD MAGAZINE NAMES THE GREAT KAT "50
FASTEST GUITARISTS OF ALL TIME"!!
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"THE GREAT KAT SIGNATURE SONG
'The Flight of the Bumble Bee'"
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"Juilliard-trained virtuoso.
Heavy leather dominatrix persona so over the top."
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"Beethoven would have loved the in-your-face
energy. Superfast headbanging takes of classical
works on guitar."
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Edward Ortiz
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"Beethoven brought to
Speed/Thrash Metal and mixed with inhuman
virtuosity."
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"METAL MESSIAH":
#1 GUITAR VIDEO ON "THE BEST OF YOUTUBE"
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"A frenzied heavy metal opus with
plenty of dazzling guitar work-outs"
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Neil Arnold
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"Which is not to say a woman can't have a
The Biggest D**k. The Great Kat - all
tremendous players who have flipped the
archetype to their advantage and are accepted as
formidable Rockers."
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Pseu Braun
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WFMU'S Beware Of The Blog
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"Great Kat is a virtuoso. She
creates the style 'Shred Classical'. This style
is original and complex, it combines the power
of the guitar and the violin with 'Metal'
speed."
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Alban Oujagir
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- "When you are
dealing with the 'ultimate female
guitar shredder', a Heavy Metal
mistress, the only thing you have to
do is bow and obey."
- Yiannis Z.
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- "Best guitarist
of the Earth. Raping the classical
composers she loves (Vivaldi,
Rossini, Wagner), thrashing them
with with hyper speed broadsides and
inserting a totally mad
orchestration on it."
- Psychotron
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- "The Great Kat is one of the fastest guitarists in the world.
The music is fast paced, full of
adrenaline and breathes contemporary
life into the crumbling legacies of
these classical composers."
- David Iversen
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- "Played hot enough to melt the
plastic plants on a public access TV
stage."
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"This is wild - Check out the Great Kat doing The
Flight of the Bumble Bee."
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"Mind-blinding speed. My favorite
piece is ‘Beethoven Mosh,’ which is
the Fifth with a grinding, powerful
guitar riff that’s slow but
insistent and crackling with power.
I could listen to that all day every
day."
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Andrew Stanfield
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- "Katherine is
considered one of shred/classical
style pioneers."
- "Neoclassical shredding madness
played at insane tempo."
- Mikolaj
Furmankiewicz
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- "One of the most
amazing musical geniuses of the 21st
century, She has single handedly
taken classical music and forged it
with the speed metal intensity of a
thousand demons. Mind altering
guitar riffs, that will blow your
mind and force you into submission
to all powerful GREAT KAT."
- Josh Drespling
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- "One is surprised to discover that there exists a human
that fast, which is a furious woman. She is called The Great Kat. With her, the themes of
Beethoven become a projectile."
- Filippo Casaccia
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- "Digging up the grave of classical music and resurrecting it by fusing
it with speed metal and theatrical dominatrix-style, blood splattered
displays."
- Langlo West
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- "Considered one of the top 10 greatest guitar shredders, this
is a collection to show The Great Kat in all her fury."
Marty Dodge,
- "The Great Kat spits her Hails once again for
all to Wake Up while you watch her cast GLOBAL DOMINATION WITH SHRED/CLASSICAL MUSIC"
- Herlaka Rose
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- "One of the coolest thrash records
Ive ever heard. It isnt just speed that makes this record amazing; its
also how Kat composed the classical works and made them fit into metal note for note. The
variety and technicality of the whole album is just astounding, truly amazing."
- Bryer Wharton
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- "The only woman who can make Gene Simmons
seem like a pansy wallflower and she's a technically superb guitar player to boot. She
dons a camouflage bikini and New York Dolls warpaint to f**king shred 24-7."
- Matthew Moyer
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- "Conjunction of virtuosity and apocalypsis, that sonic
war in this case (being Kat's music a kind of chemical weapon that destroys our nervous
system), that form to build and pull down all that megalomaniac and wild combination of
classical music, speed and own creations in that orchestrated uproar of hypersonic guitars
and violins."
- Hector Noble Fernandez
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- "'Beethoven on Speed' boasts some of the most impressive
guitar work I've heard lately. Kat demonstrates her virtuosity through reincarnating
Beethoven (and a Paganini piece) as speed metal. The speed and technicality of Kat's
astounding playing will leave one floored, to say the least."
- Kristofer Upjohn
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- "Beethoven On Speed can be looked upon as a paving stone, primarily in the
avenues of grind metal and tech metal that's quickly becoming the rage. Kat dishes out
perhaps the fastest version of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's 'Flight of the Bumblebee' we've
ever heard. Flickering out a gorgeous violin solo acoustically before ripping the snot out
of the electric violin section with screeching sadomasochism."
Ray Van Horn, Jr.
The
Metal Minute Blog
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- "Kats multi-layered delivery attacks
ones senses with a feverish intensity, effectively reminding us all of her more than
considerable technical prowess. Classical arrangements with face-melting speed."
- Todd Newton
- Blasting-Zone
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- "Completely insane. Another definition does not exist
when you come across for the first time with the work of the guitarist Great Kat.
Nobody can deny the talent of Kat."
- Fernando Souza Filho
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- "The f**king most s**t-hot guitar
player. You can f**king "ooh" and "ahhh" at the Nuclear
Assault-meets-Flight of the Bumblebee acuity of her fretwork. This is over-the-top, this
is awesome. It's as if she's a herald from a world where Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Robert
Johnson, Clapton, etc. were all women and now here she is doing the over-the-top rock
version of that."
- Matthew Moyer
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- "The forte of Kat is to make Shred covers of the
workmanships of Vivaldi, Beethoven, Bach, Wagner, Liszt and Rossini, resulting in an
intricate fast sound, for which Kat was named 'The 10 Fastest
Guitarists of the World' of Guitar One Magazine."
- Sergio Martorelli
- "The Great Kat (Juilliard grad Katherine
Thomas) is one of the most bizarre musicians performing today. She is a double virtuoso,
on guitar and violin, and displays her talents in a heavy, dark-themed context on her
latest 'Extreme Guitar Shred' DVD release. She has chops to burn."
- Mike O'Cull
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- "Wow. I've never heard 'Flight of the
Bumblebee' played so fast on a guitar. The Great Kat is metal in the craziest sense of the
word."
- Teresa
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- "The Great Kat KNOWS HOW TO MAKE LOVE TO A
GUITAR. The Great Kat's music evokes the great masters of Classical Music, with a touch a
violent metal and a perfectionistic technique. This female plays like the Gods."
- Doom
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- "In the matter of virtuosity, the speed metal
guitarist, The Great Kat, leaves you stunned. The guitarist makes an impression with her
dominance of speed techniques."
- Henrique Inglez de Souza
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- "The Great Kat, a shred guitarist playing
classical music with lightning fast licks. If you like guitar, blood and guts, then check
it out. It's got 6 Super Shred Videos to keep you pumped!"
- John Reed
- "New DVD from the famous woman with the fast fingers.
For fans, this DVD is a clear MUST. RATING: 9 out of 10."
- Thorsten Jansen
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- "Superfast shredding on top of crazy symphonies and
screeching metal vocals. So much to love about this record ["Wagner's War" CD].
Its absurd, insane and truly impressive. The 10 second sample of her Flight of the
Bumblebee got me hot."
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- "The Great Kat, Juilliard
prodigy-turned-caterwauling speed-metal guitarist, may be abrasive, but judging from this
disc, she's never boring. A-"
Bob Strauss
Entertainment
Weekly
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- SPIN MAGAZINE DECLARES THE GREAT KAT
"THE SPEEDIEST, SCARIEST FEMALE SHREDDER OF ALL TIME"
- Caryn Ganz
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- "The Great Kat is one of the best guitarists,
besides originally being a professional violinist and to top it all off, she has the
luxury of being sexy."
- "Considered in the group of the 10
fastest guitarists of all the time by Guitar One Magazine. Kat changed from the violin to
the electric guitar to create music, which is the most crazily fast and horrifying of the
world, a mixture of Classical music and speed metal. The most demented guitarist on
the planet."
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- "This woman has the title of the fastest in
the world when it comes to guitar. She is the dominatrix of the six-string, who gives
honor to Sade, metal and the great composers."
- Israel Morales
- "The Great Kat is fantastic: technique and speed in
service of the guitar. Impressive virtuosity."
- Henrique Inglez de Souza
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- "Katherine Thomas is a musical virtuoso. Over-the-top antics and the
thin line between brilliance and insanity. The Great Kat is amazing."
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- THE GREAT KAT NAMED "THE 100 WILDEST GUITAR
HEROES" in CLASSIC ROCK MAGAZINE
- "The Great Kat - FELINE GROOVY. Utterly bonkers,
self-proclaimed High Priestess Of Shred Guitar. Likes blood. And Beethoven. And she's from
Swindon. Must hear: William Tell Overture."
- Sian Llewellyn, Editor
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- The Great Kat's Upcoming DVD is a
"MASTERPIECE OF SHRED MUSIC!"
- ("Próximamente el nuevo DVD THE GREAT KAT una pieza maestra de musica
Shred)"
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- "F**king amazing. Never have I seen a female shred the
guitar as fast the Great Kat. Her musical style is not only unique but blisteringly
intoxicating. This She Demon shreds unlike another."
- Blissfulviolet
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- "The Great Kat is the greatest guitar player in the
world. There will never be another one like her. She's an exceptionally talented
artist."
- Paul Autry
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- "THE GREAT KAT 'Blood' mp3. A 39-second blast of
pain--She claims to be (among other things) God, and the reincarnation of Beethoven. She's a patriot, too (YouTube)! Does she scare me? Yeah. "
- Neal
- The Great Kat Quote in "THE GREAT ROCK 'N' ROLL QUOTE
BOOK" - In Chapter Entitled "EGO":
- "I am bringing my genius to idiots who cannot go out and
reach it for themselves because they are too stupid."
- Edited by Merrit Malloy
- "The Great Rock 'N' Roll Quote Book"
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- "With the Violin and Guitar you take control.
Youre a classic goddess struck by the lightning bolt from the metal god."
- Stephen Blackwell
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- "The Great Kat is a Dangerous, Brutal, Fantastic and Virtuoso Guitarist!"
- Salvador Diaz
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- "THE GREAT KAT RULES ALL."
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- "The Great Kats music cuts like a knife. The
worlds fastest woman guitarist has given the music of Beethoven, Wagner and Bach a
twist that jolts sensibilities of traditionalists and heavy metal musicians a new
avenue."
- Mathures Paul
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- "Beethoven On Speed" CD Listed in the "100
GREATEST SPEED/THRASH METAL ALBUMS".
- The Great Kat Listed in the "100 GREATEST SPEED/THRASH METAL BANDS"
- KISS, Editor
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- "Take one part Juilliard graduate, one part metal-head,
one part classical music virtuoso, and one part pure all consuming politically incorrect
passion, mix vigorously, and you might have a portion of The Great Kat."
- Harris Fogel
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- "A demon woman from hell that plays the guitar unlike no other."
- Chris Ferrante
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- "I've come across a couple other guitarists who claim to
play GUITAR SHRED, but it comes nowhere close to what you (The Great Kat) are capable of
doing with the guitar."
- J Sohn
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- The Great Kat Listed in Urban Dictionary:
- "Awesome trained violin virtuoso chic that became a
guitar virtuoso after graduating."
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- "It can't get any better than this. Over the top?
Absolutely! Entertaining? You bet!" -
- Peter Van Laarhoven
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- "The Great Kat - A metal shredding chick that will
kick your ass! She's a virtuoso!"
- The Morning Edge with Buck and Dex
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- "THE GREAT KAT, a toxic feline with razor sharp claws
and an affection for electric guitars."
- God Of Metal
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- "Considered one of the finest speed metal guitarists in
the world. The Great Kat has pioneered a brand of music that mixes speed metal and
classical music in a way that creates something wholly new and remarkable."
- The Grim Ringler
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- "'Wagner's War' & 'Extreme Guitar Shred' are for
those who have an appreciation for classical music, fast and heavy music and music
composition in general. This woman is an animal on the
guitar and violin."
- J Sohn
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- "This one-of-a-kind musician knows excitement."
- John Lorinc
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- "The Great Kat plays guitar (very fast) and the violin
(very, very fast) and she treats us to her metal / classical music crossover. This girl
has balls and she can make that axe (and her men) wail."
- Ash
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- "The Great Kat is a guitar virtuoso that has made it her passion to resurrect
classical music and combine it with shred guitar. I was quite impressed with not only how
fast she could play the guitar, but that she was equally as fast on the violin."
- George Dionne
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- The Great Kat's Shred/Classical Music in BOOK:
- "ROCKIN' THE CLASSICS AND CLASSICIZIN' THE ROCK"
BOOK
- Janell R. Duxbury
- "The success of the classical ideologies of complexity,
virtuosity, and individuality is most obvious in the recent emergence of "guitar for
guitarists" metal. Hypervirtuosic players like The Great Kat."
- Robert Walser
- "Running With The Devil" Book - Chapter entitled:
"Eruptions: Heavy Metal Appropriations of Classical Virtuosity"
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- "One of the premier shredders on the planet (male or
female). The Great Kat's new DVD, Extreme Guitar Shred was an intense, blistering
set of short music videos. The songs are short, note for note arrangements of familiar
classical arrangements, cranked up to 11 and played with dizzying speed. Just
listening to it is enough to almost shred the skin right off your fingertips in a spray of
sweat and blood."
- Jeremy The Loner
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- "By far, The Great Kat is the fastest female shredder
Ive ever heard, and quite possibly one of the fastest of today."
- George Dionne
- Rock Is Life Webzine
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- "The Great Kat's Extreme Guitar Shred DVD Rules! In the
Extreme Guitar Shred DVD, The Great Kat shows her chops as the ultimate guitarist of all
time. As a Juilliard graduate violinist, The Great Kat really shows guitarists how a
virtuoso violinist plays the virtuoso guitar. I've recommended this DVD to all my friends
so they can see that a woman can play better guitar than a man! Extreme
Guitar Shred rules!!"
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- "The Great Kat is a very talented guitarist. Able to
transform moments from classical music into speed metal and put her own mark on it while
doing it, The Great Kat sets herself apart as not just a guitarist but a virtuoso in her
own right. Three cheers for someone this ballsy and confident in what they are doing, who
they are, and their place in music. Cocky? Yes. Refreshing? Absolutely."
- The Grim Ringler
- Jackass Critics
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- "Take Beethoven, Wagner, Liszt, Vivaldi, Sarasate, et
al, pour into a blender and shred full speed for 2 minutes and pour yourself a tall one!
Down it quickly while flipping wildly through Heavy Metal Magazine cum WWE SmackDown while
someone slaps you across the ears repeatedly. Even this wont come close to watching
the 2-minute video vignettes presented on DVD Extreme Guitar Shred by the Great
Kat."
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- "'Extreme Guitar Shred' is bound to be a masterpiece.
You have to see and hear this shred meister perform to believe the power of
Shred/Classical!"
- MetalOz
- UnitedRock.com
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- "Breathtaking music, fast-paced classical, revamped,
chewed, spat out and laced with spit from the devil himself."
- Jim Ody
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- "Rock music could become the new classical
music...Katherine 'The Great Kat' Thomas, for example, a Juilliard trained violinist, has
adapted works by Vivaldi, Beethoven, Liszt and Wagner for shred guitar and classical
orchestra."
- Tim Brookes
- "Guitar An American Life" Book - Chapter entitled:
"Guitar Rock Takes Over"
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- "Legendary guitarist. Death-defying guitar skill. This
guitar and violin virtuoso is skilled at taking classical pieces and morphing them into
speed metal and on this DVD she shows us those skills via some pretty awe-inspiring music
videos. Wagner, Bazzini, Sarasate, Vivaldi, and Liszt are compressed into total
balls-to-the-wall guitar shred."
- J-Sin
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- "Original Masterpiece. An artist with more talent than
any guitar player I have ever heard in my life. I was very impressed with her finger
bleeding guitar shredding which would make most guitar players slack jawed."
- Jake A. Wheat
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- "Extreme Guitar Shred DVD is a collection of short, themed videos depicting
The Great Kat doing variously discomforting things, to a soundtrack featuring her
impressive chops. The woman can certainly play guitar. She plays Wagner, Vivaldi, and
more, interpreted through a dark metal lens. It's definitely an interesting concept."
- Mikey McClenathan
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- "The Great Kat can outplay just about every
guitarist on the planet. She can zoom up and down a fretboard faster than a hungry
cheetah on steroids. Her fretboard speed is awesome."
Michael Molenda
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- "She is a Juilliard graduate and a
magnificent guitarist and violinist."
- Vinyville
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- "The Great Kat! DVD Excellent! Site
de la délicieuse Kat, qui fait une musique déjantée à base de métal et de musique
classique (en anglais), dernier album 'Wagner's War'"
- Jerome & Stephane
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- "Over-the-top shred. The Great Kat
puts Vai and Yngwie to shame with her faster-than-lighting licks. Extreme
patriotism with extreme feminism."
- Jedd Beaudoin
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- "Rating: 10/10!!! Totally speed metal madness with huge influences of classic violin-guitar
virtuosity! 'Extreme Guitar Shred' is for
true maniacs"
- Gnom
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- "Kat demonstrates a skill which I do not have words
to describe, as much with the violin as the guitar at a speed that escape to the course
human knowledge. Buy this DVD no matter what."
- Armando Mutilator
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- "There is not another woman
in music today that can measure up to your guitar player or violin playing. You will go
down in music history as the best female guitarist of all time. "
- Brian Rademacher
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- "Awesome! You're a Goddess! You're the cutting edge!
Kat, You Rule! Kat Shreds! Kat Shreds! Kat Shreds!!"
- Tommy & Rumble
- "Extreme Guitar Shred is a definite way to get the metal
heads to listen to classical music. A metal menace delight. Her guitar and
violin playing is intense, strings sawed and plucked with a vengeance."
- Bruce Von Stiers
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- "'Extreme Guitar Shred' DVD Rating: 5 STARS!
- Great DVD!!! The best shredder in the business.
The Great Kat is a phenom in the music world bringing shredding violin with
unbelievably extreme ripping guitar playing. A pioneer in shredding
guitar."
- Brian Rademacher
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- "Vote for The Great Kat in 2008! She rules already.
Might as well make it legal."
- Mark Pruett
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- "Is She fast? That question gets a mighty Hell
yes."
- Morris Tang
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- "A truly great and unique musician. Kat is an amazing
guitarist and probably the most interesting violinist I have ever come across."
- Mark Fisher
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- "The Great Kat plays her guitar with unspeakable speed. If you want to learn
what shredding is all about, pick up this DVD."
Guillermo Rascon
- The Scene Rocks Webzine
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- "Totally speed metal madness with huge influences the classic violin-guitar
virtuosity!"
- Gnom
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- "Rating: FULL SCORE (10 points)!!!!!!!! She's simply the meanest,
fastest, coolest and sexiest violin and guitar shredder in the entire galaxy. The
wildest
DVD of twelve minutes in the whole history of music DVDs."
- Toine van Poorten
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- "The entire DVD times out at a tidy 15 minutes, but it's 15 minutes of the
most bizarre, in-your-face shred guitar ever recorded."
- Chris Carle
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- "The Great Kat is a force of nature, a performer of such
dramatic histrionics and extreme virtuosity that she leaves audiences in awe. She wields
both the guitar and violin like weapons, and delivers masterful rock renditions of
cherished classical songs."
- Tower Records
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- "She's so scary fast on guitar and violin, that
once you retrieve your ego from the gutter, you almost have to laugh."
- Michael Molenda
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- "Steeped in the fury of Satan, The Great Kat brings
virtuosity and inventiveness."
- Denali Dasgupta
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- "Extreme Guitar Shred" DVD Rating: 10/10
- Andrew
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- "She is some kind of a legend among the fans. This is a must for all of you
who are tired of so called neo-classical guitar players and want to hear REAL GUITAR
SHRED!!!!!!!!!!!!"
- Darko
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- "You think you know speed. You think you know shred. You know nothing until
you know the Great Kat!!"
- Rob Belanger
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- "A rollercoaster of impressively fast guitar. Her
violin and guitar work are so damn fast and phenomenal. Here is classical music on speed,
and it's hard not to be impressed."
- Caroline Dworin
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- "Prepare to be dazzled by guitar and violin pyrotechnics
that will blister your fingers (and you aren't even playing!)"
- "Showing
the ultimate in Violin and guitar shred. Just God!"
- Matt D'Agostino
- "Showcasing the Kats outrageous takes on classical
music done up with her patented guitar and violin histrionics; its entertaining as
hell."
- Greg Pratt
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- "The Great Kat is a talented guitarist. The DVD adds an
extra dimension and was certainly entertaining."
- Stuart A Hamilton
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- "Here's what the Extreme Guitar Shred DVD is: a
collection of short, themed videos depicting The Great Kat doing variously discomforting
things, to a soundtrack featuring her impressive chops."
- Mikey McClenathan
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- "She (Katherine Thomas) really is a virtuoso, both on guitar and violin and
her technical prowess puts to shame a lot of would-be guitar heroes."
- Jerry Fielden
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- "So buckle up and hang on
tight as 'The Great Kat' Takes you on a ride of your lifetime in the newest collection
(Extreme Guitar Shred DVD). This is the real deal a true gift of talent that the 'Great
Kat' possesses with speeding/shredding guitar riffs that will make your hairs on your neck
stand straight up. For all you extreme guitarist this a must for your guitar playing
collection of videos."
- Steve Paul
- "In the video you can watch her trade off with
herself back and forth between guitar shredding and violin shredding. Its quite amazing
actually to watch. She is the most awesome guitar goddess ever born. AND GOD!!!!!!!!"
- Rabishu Xul
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- "The fury that The Great Kat expresses in her
performances, as for instance we can see in this DVD, acquires legendary dimensions."
- Jorge Munnshe
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- "She rips through - on both violin and guitar - with such ruthless
abandon as to cause unease to the most confident guitar shredder. That she manages this
while playing with one hand or with her flying-V stuck behind her head is even more
intimidating."
- Skinny Devil
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- "Macho shredders beware: The Great Kat will skewer you,
tear you apart note by note, dine on your bleeding wounds, then lick your blood off her
high velocity paws before she yawns. Every track on 'Extreme Guitar Shred' is a full
frontal assault, exploding with blazing lines from the likes of Wagner, Liszt, and
Sarasate."
- Rick Landers
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- "With all the subtlety of a chainsaw, The Great Kat has
unleashed Extreme Guitar Shred upon humanity. The videos themselves are mini-plays
set to Kats remarkable shredding."
- By O.M.O.M.
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- "She is a musical genius like no other woman in Metal
business. Real Kat fans need this DVD for sure, as you get some impressive guitar work to
see."
- Christian Metzner
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- "The Great Kat's chops are impressive the speed
with which she spits out scales on both electric guitar and violin is astounding,
especially when accompanied, as it is on the DVDs six videos, by her snarling,
wild-eyed metal posturing and head-banging."
- Patrick Enright
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- "This dvd is killer from start to finish. This dvd is
great for anyone who wants an awesome introduction of The Great Kat, and A must for
extreme guitar shredding fans. I highly recommend it."
- DJ Bushmado
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- "Blistering versions of LISZT, BAZZINI, WAGNER, VIVALDI, and SARASATE
classical pieces in raw GREAT KAT style. The dvd has something for fans of Classical
and metal."
- Tony Anderson
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- "Extreme Guitar Shred offers blistering guitar and violin work with all the
S&M, blood, gore and twisted humor you need to make the DVD enjoyable. Marvel at the
sheer speed at which her fingers fly across the strings."
- Terry Bunch
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- "Whether you are a fan of shredding guitars, essential
metal, or a hot chick in skimpy S&M outfits, this DVD is a must have for your
collection."
- Joe
- Satan On A Stick Webzine
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- "Everything rips by at a blistering pace with her majesty displaying why she
was recently voted one of the top 10 shredders of all time. Shredder paradise."
- JP
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- "'Zapateado' Music Video: 10++++++ off the scales. The
Great Kat's imagination is so total that you will be transported into her Kat-universe by
it's sheer force."
- Christraper
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- "Modern day Paganini. Her virtuosity on these
instruments (guitar and violin) is nothing short of amazing. No holds barred guitar
acrobatics."
- Erin Fox
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- "GUITAR GODS: Katherine 'The Great Kat' Thomas!''
Interview named "Top 20 of all stories at Tinfoil.music"
- Skinny Devil
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- "The Great Kat is a musical virtuoso. Fantastic
dexterity. Divine talent. Guitar and violin speedcapades. Neo-classical monstrosity. All
women should be so powerful."
- Liz Ciavarella
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- "The more you know about The Great Kat, the more she seems like a walking,
talking unifying theory of women and rock guitar."
- David Segal
- "On 'Guitar Shredder From Hell' Music Video, watch the sickest, bloodiest,
most brutal, most eccentric, most violent explosion of moving images on your TV screen.
Hail to the fastest, guitar shredder in the universe."
- Toine van Poorten
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- "'ZAPATEADO' Music Video is a stunning combination of
The Great Kat's unmatched guitar speed and riveting heavy metal violin work. It's
breathlessly stunning."
- R. Scott Bolton
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- "Conjunction of virtuosity and
apocalypsis, that form to build and pull down all that megalomaniac and wild combination
of classical music, speed and own creations in that orchestrated uproar of hypersonic
guitars and violins and toxicant extremism."
- Hector Noble Fernandez
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- "The classical masterpieces sound so damn good mixed with metal that it's hard
to explain. One of the best concepts to ever enter the metal world."
- Britton Dicks, Jr.
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- "This wild woman of New York City can shred a guitar like no one else.
All I can say is pick this s**t up and listen to it. It will definitely change the way you
look at classical music."
- Angela Monger
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- "Rating: 10 out of 10! Total f**king shred guitar mixed with the classical
stylings of Wagner. Insane music of the highest caliber. 'Wagners War' is jammed packed
with guitar shredding and violin shredding masterpieces only The Great Kat come spew
forth."
- Rabishu (Bogues) Xul
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- "'WAGNER'S WAR' shows The Great Kat's dexterity with the
6 strings, playing at the speed of light."
- Pinhead
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- "Rapid, Furious, and Genius. Maybe this is the music of
the future. Brutal and perfect. Essential Disc."
- Ayar F.R.O.G.
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- "All three acts of this cycle (War, Revenge and Victory) are delivered at a
breakneck pace. The Great Kat isn't your typical metal star."
- Sean Carruthers
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- "Insane rapid Classical shredding. 'Wagner's War' is
definitively a great release, very innovative and creative, the musicianship is out of
this world."
- Undercraft
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- ***** ***** (10 out of 10 Stars!) "The
fastest guitar solos you might ever hear. Staccato Solos that are so out of this
world. The Great Kat outperforms not most, but all of the competition, by not only being
faster, but also much fiercer than anyone I can think of."
- Pascal Thiel
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- "Wagner's Ride of the Valkyrie totally sped up and
energized, the perfect song to go to war."
- Fred Boschet
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- "The Great Kat plays Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, on guitar and violin at
break-neck speed. An amazing musician!"
- Mark Deren
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- "Blistering guitar/violins. Merging insanely fast guitar
to equally high velocity violin."
- Paul Stenning
- Powerplay Magazine
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- "Some of the most intricate, complex classical music
done expertly on guitar at break-neck speed. To hear someone with this skill is amazing
and I would recommend that everyone check it out."
- Dennis Day
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- "The Great Kat is a Juilliard graduate violin virtuoso who applies those
classical disciplines with equal conviction to her outrageous metal guitar style."
- Paul Salter
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- -Caryn Ganz, Spin Magazine, July 2003 Issue
- THE GREAT KAT NAMED
- "TOP 10 FASTEST SHREDDERS OF ALL TIME"!!
- Chris O'Byrne
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- "With phenomenal speed, Kat thrashes through Classical
figures"
- Neva Chonin
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- "Wagner's War" CD
- *** (Three Stars)
- "Inspired by the events of Sept. 11, Kat renders some of
music's most famous, aggressive, battle-inspired pieces in shredding-speed metal
arrangements that hiss and spit."
- Dan Aquilante
- "Recently unleashing her latest opus, 'Wagners
War', she's yet again poised to take over heavy metal as we know it by blending blindingly
fast guitar shredding with grindcore and yes, classical music."
- Keith Carman
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- "Rating: 10/10. 'Wagners War' is yet another
masterpiece from the fastest guitar-goddess alive. The new album is bound for
eternity."
- Max Thrasher
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- "The jewel of 'Wagner's War' CD is Liszt's 'Hungarian
Rhapsody #2' and Sarasate's 'Zapateado', where The Great Kat shreds on violin and guitar
brilliantly."
- Jorge Miranda
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- "A crossroads of Beethoven on acid meeting the musical
fury of a woman on a mission that most man can't compete with."
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- "I'm quite impressed! THE GREAT KAT is the f**king
Mistress of Metal & the Succubus of Speed! Without a doubt the fastest, heaviest, most
talented female shredder of all time!"
- Lord Aphoticax
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- "The Great Kat's technical abilities are amazing to say
the least."
- Angela Monger
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- "'WAGNER'S WAR' is an overpowering seven-song
eleven-minute whirlwind of complex speed guitar orchestration in response to Sept. 11,
2001."
- Kevin McCarley
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- "'Wagner's War' grabs you by the balls & rips your
throat out!!! The screams in the song "Terror" invokes
memories of that terror filled day in September, 2001."
- Bill & Deb
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- "The Great Kat is unique: a strange mixture of
furious madness and pure instrumental virtuosity."
- Nicolas Pingnelain
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- "The Great Kat plays the guitar very fast. Faster than
you, for sure.
- Faster than everybody, pretty much."
- Ian Stewart
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- "Kat backs up her outrageous persona with shredding
skills that are second to none."
- Steve Passiouras
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- "'Wagner's War' is pure genius and has to be the fastest
guitar playing I have ever heard in my life. Simply put, the greatest Classical
Masterpiece The Black Angel has come across."
- Andy Burke
- "The Great Kat, a virtuoso of speed metal, a whirlwind
of bleeding fingers and pure metal bliss tempered with classical pieces from Beethoven and
Vivaldi. Kat is a musical force that can not be ignored."
- Josh Drespling,
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- "The Great Kat, speed metal goddess & possibly the
fastest shredder in the world. 'Wagner's War' is definitely a CD for the guitar
shredders to check out & study!"
- Bob
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- "Fast is not even a word that begins to describe the
velocity of the great ones' playing. Kat is in a category all by herself with technical
abilities that are not of this world. 'Wagners War' unleashes a mind melting
cacophony of sophisticated guitar arrangements that buzz at the speed of light. This is a
fantastic release for all speed demons."
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- "This is a highly talented guitar/violin shredding
goddess, here to take the throne and let you bow to her."
- Mike
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- "The queen of speed on the six string.
- 'Wagner's War' is crammed full of some of the most intricate
and frenzied music you will ever feast your bleeding ears upon."
- Josh Drespling
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- "I dont think Ive ever heard a faster
guitarist.
- But not only is she furiously fast, shes also good and
inspired.
- Rarely do you find these three qualities in one
guitarist."
- A-J Charron
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- "On "Wagner War" The Feline Goddess bridges
Shred & Aggression with song titles
- like "Terror"," Punishment" &
"Humiliation" and then just tears it up on guitar."
- Kaman
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- "The Great Kat's lightening quick fingers and guitar
riffs are nothing less than amazing as her interpretations bring to life the drama and
bloodshed that is war."
- Mike Greenhall
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- "The Great Kat is one of the best, speediest, and spellbinding axe grinders in
the music scene today."
- Rikk Matheson
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- "The Great Kat and her Jackson King V, thrashing madly,
and headbanging wildly. Vicious shredding assault, not for the faint of heart"
- Erik Chrupalyk
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- "If blistering leads and ripping fast solos are your
thing, then this disc is definitely for you."
- Dan Wettlaufer
- The Oxford Review
-
- "Once I Think I've heard the new extreme in music
something like
- The Great Kat comes along. Awesome!"
- Whittaker
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- "Lightning fast guitar chops.
- Hell, if the US government really wants
Saddam to leave Iraq they could always put WAGNER'S WAR on repeat at full volume
and in a few days they would surely surrender."
- Mita Tate
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- "The guitars shred everything!! Complex, ultra raging fury and
ultra-blasting."
-
- "An absolute demoness shredder on both guitar and violin. The mixture
of heart-racing classical war anthems mixed with 'kick 'em in the face' post-9/11 anger
(this record's theme)."
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- "Nobody can really compare to The Great Kat. She makes
guys like Yngwie Malmsteen look like just another guitarist!"
- Erik Chrupalyk
- Unstoppable Force Webzine
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- "Flashing images of concentration atrocities and the horror of the World Trade
Center attacks. If you need to get your blood boiling again, The Great Kat's 'War' video
will help you do it."
- R. Scott Bolton
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- "The Great Kat - who is not only an excellent shredder,
but a fine composer, too - is probably best known for re-orchestrating classical
music standards for shred-metal interpretation. This has included the works of Vivaldi,
Rossini, Beethoven, and others, and requires a firm grasp of both speed-picking and
sweep-picking, not to mention a very limber fret-hand."
- - David McLean,
-
- "The Great Kat is a metal goddess who's from New York
City and on this cd she expresses her feelings of destruction, a desire to destroy all
those who burned down the American dream as The Great Kat stands with an American flag on
the cover, ready to start the war."
- Didier Becu
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- "On the current CD, 'Wagner's War,' by New York's
lovable dominatrix The Great Kat, the girl with the brilliant speedchops and the pro
wrestling mentality wages war in three acts."
- Mike G
- "This new CD by the Great Kat not only shreds
- but makes one feel proud to be an American. She's a f**king
GENIUS!"
- Leah Gold
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- "Lovers of guitar will surely have to check this album."
-
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- "Her version of Classical pieces like Wagner's 'The Ride of the Valkyries' and
Liszt's 'Hungarian Rhapsody' are done at breakneck speeds and with an insane speed
technique. Fans of extreme speed need to check this out."
- Chris Lee
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- "A new high for the career of one of the most innovative artistes in the
independent music wo
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