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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"
GUITAR WORLD MAGAZINE NAMES THE GREAT KAT "50 FASTEST GUITARISTS OF ALL TIME"!!GUITAR WORLD MAGAZINE NAMES THE GREAT KAT "50 FASTEST GUITARISTS OF ALL TIME"!! THE GREAT KAT: "TOP 10 FASTEST SHREDDERS OF ALL TIME" - Guitar One Magazine "THE 100 WILDEST GUITAR HEROES" - Classic Rock Magazine
 
 
GUITAR WORLD MAGAZINE NAMES THE GREAT KAT "50 FASTEST GUITARISTS OF ALL TIME"!!
"THE GREAT KAT SIGNATURE SONG 'The Flight of the Bumble Bee'"
"Juilliard-trained virtuoso. Heavy leather dominatrix persona so over the top."
 
"Beethoven would have loved the in-your-face energy. Superfast headbanging takes of classical works on guitar." - Edward Ortiz
 
"Beethoven brought to Speed/Thrash Metal and mixed with inhuman virtuosity."
 
"METAL MESSIAH": #1 GUITAR VIDEO ON "THE BEST OF YOUTUBE"
 
"A frenzied heavy metal opus with plenty of dazzling guitar work-outs"
Neil Arnold
 
"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."
Pseu Braun
WFMU'S Beware Of The Blog
 
"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."
Alban Oujagir
 
"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.
 
"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
 
"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
 
"Played hot enough to melt the plastic plants on a public access TV stage."
 
"This is wild - Check out the Great Kat doing The Flight of the Bumble Bee."
 
"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."
Andrew Stanfield
 
"Katherine is considered one of shred/classical style pioneers."
"Neoclassical shredding madness played at insane tempo."
Mikolaj Furmankiewicz
 
"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
 
"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
 
"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
 
"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
 
"One of the coolest thrash records I’ve ever heard. It isn’t just speed that makes this record amazing; it’s 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
 
"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
 
"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
 
"'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
 
"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
 
"Kat’s multi-layered delivery attacks one’s 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
 
"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
 
"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
 
"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
 
"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
 
"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
 
"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
 
"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
 
"Superfast shredding on top of crazy symphonies and screeching metal vocals. So much to love about this record ["Wagner's War" CD]. It’s absurd, insane and truly impressive. The 10 second sample of her Flight of the Bumblebee got me hot."
 
 
"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
 
SPIN MAGAZINE DECLARES THE GREAT KAT
"THE SPEEDIEST, SCARIEST FEMALE SHREDDER OF ALL TIME"
Caryn Ganz
 
"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."
 
 
"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
 
"Katherine Thomas is a musical virtuoso. Over-the-top antics and the thin line between brilliance and insanity. The Great Kat is amazing."
 
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
 
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)"
 
"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
 
"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
 
"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"
 
"With the Violin and Guitar you take control. You’re a classic goddess struck by the lightning bolt from the metal god."
Stephen Blackwell
 
"The Great Kat is a Dangerous, Brutal, Fantastic and Virtuoso Guitarist!"
Salvador Diaz
 
"THE GREAT KAT RULES ALL."
 
"The Great Kat’s music cuts like a knife. The world’s 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
 
"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
 
"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
 
"A demon woman from hell that plays the guitar unlike no other."
Chris Ferrante
 
"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
 
The Great Kat Listed in Urban Dictionary:
"Awesome trained violin virtuoso chic that became a guitar virtuoso after graduating."
 
"It can't get any better than this. Over the top? Absolutely! Entertaining? You bet!" -
Peter Van Laarhoven
 
"The Great Kat - A metal shredding chick that will kick your ass! She's a virtuoso!"
The Morning Edge with Buck and Dex
 
"THE GREAT KAT, a toxic feline with razor sharp claws and an affection for electric guitars."
God Of Metal
 
"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
 
"'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
 
"This one-of-a-kind musician knows excitement."
John Lorinc
 
"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
 
"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
 
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"
 
"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
 
"By far, The Great Kat is the fastest female shredder I’ve ever heard, and quite possibly one of the fastest of today."
George Dionne
Rock Is Life Webzine
 
"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!!"
 
"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
 
"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 won’t come close to watching the 2-minute video vignettes presented on DVD Extreme Guitar Shred by the Great Kat."
 
"'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
 
"Breathtaking music, fast-paced classical, revamped, chewed, spat out and laced with spit from the devil himself."
Jim Ody
 
"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"
 
"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
 
"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
 
"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
 
"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
 
"She is a Juilliard graduate and a magnificent guitarist and violinist."
Vinyville
 
"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
 
"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
 
"Rating: 10/10!!! Totally speed metal madness with huge influences of classic violin-guitar virtuosity! 'Extreme Guitar Shred' is for true maniacs"
Gnom
 
"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
 
"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
 
"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
 
"'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
 
"Vote for The Great Kat in 2008! She rules already. Might as well make it legal."
Mark Pruett
 
"Is She fast? That question gets a mighty Hell yes."
Morris Tang
 
"A truly great and unique musician. Kat is an amazing guitarist and probably the most interesting violinist I have ever come across."
Mark Fisher
 
"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
 
"Totally speed metal madness with huge influences the classic violin-guitar virtuosity!"
Gnom
 
"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
 
"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
 
"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
 
"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
 
"Steeped in the fury of Satan, The Great Kat brings virtuosity and inventiveness."
Denali Dasgupta
 
"Extreme Guitar Shred" DVD Rating: 10/10
Andrew
 
"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
 
"You think you know speed. You think you know shred. You know nothing until you know the Great Kat!!"
Rob Belanger
 
"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
 
"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 Kat’s outrageous takes on classical music done up with her patented guitar and violin histrionics; it’s entertaining as hell."
Greg Pratt
 
"The Great Kat is a talented guitarist. The DVD adds an extra dimension and was certainly entertaining."
Stuart A Hamilton
 
"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
 
"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
 
"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
 
"The fury that The Great Kat expresses in her performances, as for instance we can see in this DVD, acquires legendary dimensions."
Jorge Munnshe
 
"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
 
"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
 
"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 Kat’s remarkable shredding."
By O.M.O.M.
 
"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
 
"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 DVD’s six videos, by her snarling, wild-eyed metal posturing and head-banging."
Patrick Enright
 
"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
 
"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
 
"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
 
"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
 
"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
 
"'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
 
"Modern day Paganini. Her virtuosity on these instruments (guitar and violin) is nothing short of amazing. No holds barred guitar acrobatics."
Erin Fox
 
"GUITAR GODS: Katherine 'The Great Kat' Thomas!'' Interview named "Top 20 of all stories at Tinfoil.music"
Skinny Devil
 
"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
 
"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
 
"'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
 
 
"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
 
"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.
 
"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
 
"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
 
"'WAGNER'S WAR' shows The Great Kat's dexterity with the 6 strings, playing at the speed of light."
Pinhead
 
"Rapid, Furious, and Genius. Maybe this is the music of the future. Brutal and perfect. Essential Disc."
Ayar F.R.O.G.
 
"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
 
"Insane rapid Classical shredding. 'Wagner's War' is definitively a great release, very innovative and creative, the musicianship is out of this world."
Undercraft
 
***** ***** (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
 
"Wagner's Ride of the Valkyrie totally sped up and energized, the perfect song to go to war."
Fred Boschet
 
"The Great Kat plays Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, on guitar and violin at break-neck speed. An amazing musician!"
Mark Deren
 
"Blistering guitar/violins. Merging insanely fast guitar to equally high velocity violin."
Paul Stenning
Powerplay Magazine
 
"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
 
"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
 
-Caryn Ganz, Spin Magazine, July 2003 Issue
THE GREAT KAT NAMED
"TOP 10 FASTEST SHREDDERS OF ALL TIME"!!
Chris O'Byrne
 
"With phenomenal speed, Kat thrashes through Classical figures"
Neva Chonin
 
"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, 'Wagner’s 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
 
"Rating: 10/10. 'Wagner’s War' is yet another masterpiece from the fastest guitar-goddess alive. The new album is bound for eternity."
Max Thrasher
 
"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
 
"A crossroads of Beethoven on acid meeting the musical fury of a woman on a mission that most man can't compete with."
 
"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
 
"The Great Kat's technical abilities are amazing to say the least."
Angela Monger
 
"'WAGNER'S WAR' is an overpowering seven-song eleven-minute whirlwind of complex speed guitar orchestration in response to Sept. 11, 2001."
Kevin McCarley
 
"'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
 
"The Great Kat is unique: a strange mixture of furious madness and pure instrumental virtuosity."
Nicolas Pingnelain
 
"The Great Kat plays the guitar very fast. Faster than you, for sure.
Faster than everybody, pretty much."
Ian Stewart
 
"Kat backs up her outrageous persona with shredding skills that are second to none."
Steve Passiouras
 
"'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,
 
"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
 
"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. 'Wagner’s 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."
 
"This is a highly talented guitar/violin shredding goddess, here to take the throne and let you bow to her."
Mike
 
"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
 
"I don’t think I’ve ever heard a faster guitarist.
But not only is she furiously fast, she’s also good and inspired.
Rarely do you find these three qualities in one guitarist."
A-J Charron
 
"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
 
"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
 
"The Great Kat is one of the best, speediest, and spellbinding axe grinders in the music scene today."
Rikk Matheson
 
"The Great Kat and her Jackson King V, thrashing madly, and headbanging wildly. Vicious shredding assault, not for the faint of heart"
Erik Chrupalyk
 
"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
 
"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
 
"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)."
 
"Nobody can really compare to The Great Kat. She makes guys like Yngwie Malmsteen look like just another guitarist!"
Erik Chrupalyk
Unstoppable Force Webzine
 
"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
 
"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
 
"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
 
"Lovers of guitar will surely have to check this album."
 
 
"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
 
"A new high for the career of one of the most innovative artistes in the independent music wo