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-"50 FASTEST GUITARISTS OF ALL TIME" - Guitar World Magazine
-"TOP 10 FASTEST SHREDDERS OF ALL TIME" - Guitar One Magazine
-"THE 100 WILDEST GUITAR HEROES" - Classic Rock Magazine
-"12 GREATEST FEMALE ELECTRIC GUITARISTS" - Elle Magazine
 
"The Great Kat named one of the fastest guitar players. Probably the fastest female shredder on the face of the earth. 'Flight Of The Bumble-Bee' at 300 Beats Per Minute. It does not get any faster than that. This ('Beethoven's Guitar Shred' DVD) makes a great stocking stuffer."
Michael Butler
MEVIO Music
 
"Heavy Metal Beethoven. Ya gotta see (and hear) this one to believe it. It's a guitar shred. A really really fast guitar shred.  Beethoven's Guitar Shred is a DVD featuring The Great Kat, a classical violin wunderkind turned metal guitar shred virtuoso. Like I said, watch and listen for yourself."
Dave White
About.com: Classic Rock
 
"The Great Kat hardcore metal musician with some serious shred, I’m talkin bloody fingers fast dudes. She takes classic tunes and mixes it up with some metal and produces one unique, fast-paced sound. There’s nothing like seeing a woman spread wide with a guitar between her legs. If you’re a fan of heavy metal then definitely take The Great Kat’s Beethoven’s Guitar Shred for a spin; it’s a unique spin on classic hits that’s sure to please. It’s been Valkor tested and TOV Approved."
Valkor
The Other View
 
MEU INSTRUMENTO NAMES THE GREAT KAT "TOP 10 FEMALE GUITARISTS"
"Katherine Thomas (The Great Kat)"
Meu Instrumento
 
"Blending the showmanship of metal with the intensive musical construction of classical, Kat has carved out a name for herself in musical history by shredding some of the greatest musical works of our time."
Carly Milne
AOL's Digital City
 
"The Great Kat is a female metal guitar virtuoso, heavily influenced by classical music. The Great Kat demonstrates the extremes to which metal performers go to accentuate their virtuosity on various instruments."
William Phillips and Brian Cogan
Encyclopedia of Heavy Metal Music
 
"Guitar/violin virtuoso The Great Kat. She's a terrifying individual with the guitar and violin skills above and beyond."
Bob Zerull
Zoiks! Online
 
"She is beautiful and rebellious, she is very strong and she is insanely talented and certainly more raving mad; this is how to summarize briefly the Anglo-American virtuoso, The Great Kat. Violinist and guitarist hellish demonic queen of speed/thrash metal has re-examined and corrected (with great blows of the 6-string electric) standards from Beethoven."
Marie Cartier
Zik Addict
 
"The queen of speed. The Great Kat plays shred covers of classical composers like Beethoven and Wagner. One of the fastest guitarists of all, her persona knows no limits."
Zach Zimmerman
Associated Content
 
"Beethoven's Guitar Shred, featuring The Great Kat, is one hell of a way to infuse both the love of metal and classical music into one gift. With performances of classical pieces like "Flight of the Bumblebee" amped up to 300bpm and face-melting solo work, this is a great fun gift that will have you watching her fingers in awe."
Rene Rosa aka Evil Adam
Entertaining Evil
 
"The Great Kat dazzles with her virtuosic high-voltage guitar technique (and penchant for heavy metal/goth) on her Beethoven's Guitar Shred DVD. Wildly entertaining."
fab Magazine
 
"Wow! Very rarely does a DVD come along that inspires the old 'You'll have to see it to believe it!' But such is the case with The Great Kat's Beethoven's Guitar Shred, an amazing display of speedy guitar wizardry. Kat slices and dices the Paganini composition with precision on guitar but she also plays a violin part that makes Charlie Daniels' fiddle-off with the devil on 'The Devil Went Down to Georgia' look like a molasses-dripping contest."
Kevin Wierzbicki
antiMUSIC
 
"The Great Kat is a Juilliard-trained violin virtuoso who demonstrates the complementary aspects of classical and metal through her over-the-top, dominatrix persona, her self-styled 'shred/classical' genre and her instructional DVDs. With the rarity of her gift and the minority of her gender in this genre, she's been tearing up her fretboard and blistering her fingers for plenty of years. Those who don't hop on the Great Kat express are bound to get run over!"
Amy Sciarretto
AOL Music Noisecreep
 
The Great Kat: "12 GREATEST FEMALE ELECTRIC GUITARISTS"
"Of all the shredders on our list, Juilliard-trained violinist the Great Kat (aka Katherine Thomas) is the most mind-bogglingly fast. Watch her fingers do the talking in the Beethoven Mush video here. (Or just imagine the composer’s electrical symphony on amphetamines.)"
Julie Vadnal
"An incredibly talented musician. My fingers hurt just listening to that ("The Flight Of The Bumble-Bee"), which is remarkable. The speed with which her fingers are moving to do that--it's INSANE!"
Cathy Brooks
 
"The guitarist Katherine Thomas aka The Great Kat is ranked among the fastest metal shredders of all time."
Danny Kringiel
Spiegel Online (Germany)
 
"The Great Kat should be feared because her hyper-blasting, neo-classical, whirlwind guitar playing is so precise and intense. This woman really is a better guitarist than most men ever were. Beethoven’s Guitar Shred DVD is a portable clinic of seemingly inhuman guitar antics.  Dominating torture, blood, fire, anti-terrorist sentiments – all wrapped in an oddly tasteful, hyper-classical visual feast."
Mark Morton
Heavy Metal Examiner
 
"Move over, Jamie Foxx. The Soloist's insanely genius Juilliard apprentice is up against some formidable competition, and she's female. The Great Kat is basically showing the male competition how it's done, better and faster.  Her raging, fast forward in real time Beethoven's Guitar Shred is like nothing that has come before. A mix 'n match medley of Beethoven, Bach, Abu Ghraib and Islamic insurgency.  A classical/metal lovers everywhere wakeup call, these mini-musicals for guitar, violin and machete could very well blow your mind."
Prairie Miller
NewsBlaze
 
"She possesses a prodigious talent, a virtuosic precision that allows her to play classical transcriptions on her guitar at upwards of 300 beats per minute.  The Great Kat is one of those outsize performing personas as well as a masterful musician."
Philip Martin
 
"On the new DVD 'Beethoven's Guitar Shred', The Great Kat (a.k.a. Katherine Thomas) buzzes through 'Flight of the Bumblebee' at a mind-numbing 300 beats per minute. The classically trained musician claims to be one of planet's fastest guitar players, and who can argue?"
Lou Carlozo
 
-"Ferocious performance of The Great Kat. The true 'madness' and measure how the 'Great Kat' is .. uh .. the outrageous adjectives and superlatives fail me to describe it ... just say: WOUAAAATheF**K! The Great Kat on-dope standards of classical music by passing through the mill of her electric guitar plugged into the 100,000 volt."
Marie Cartier
 
"Beethoven’s music performed by The Great Kat, a Juilliard-trained musician and one of the fastest 'shredders' of all time. Beethoven’s Fifth that is played with absurd velocity on an electric guitar.  Beethoven can never have found himself in odder company than that of The Great Kat, and I amused myself thinking what he would have made of it all. I like to imagine one of his furious temper tantrums. But Mozart, a more ribald soul, would surely have found it hilarious."
Peter Aspden
 
"Her guitar performance is beyond energetic, transcending to the level of mania, as she shreds a ferocious medley of Beethoven, Bach, and raw fervor. A raucous blend of classical music, heavy metal, and stinging social commentary. Beethoven's Guitar Shred is truly unforgettable, and especially recommended for metal fans."
James A. Cox
 
"This Juilliard-trained violinist puts the pedal to the metal in a neo-classical tint. She mixes Beethoven's 5th, Bach's Brandenburg, and Paganini's Caprice 24 with her shredding styles."
 
"The Great Kat has launched her new DVD in which the extraordinary guitarist includes classic works by the deaf genius (Beethoven), Bach and Paganini. Katherine Thomas broke speed records by playing the famous piece "The Flight of the bumblebee" at a dizzying 300 beats per minute. A fierce guitarist specializing in heavy metal versions of the classics."
Guillermo Aguilera
 
"Kat is a classically trained violinist graduated from Juilliard. But what do you do when you're a hot (technically and physically) virtuoso? Her answer was to apply her substantial violin technique to the electric guitar. And the results are amazing."
Henry Davis
TechBites

"The Great Kat must be worshipped. The Great Kat is the best, the fastest, the greatest. She is Beethoven reincarnated."
Mark Pruett
 
"A shredder out of New York who puts a thrash metal spin on classical pieces..... HEAVY RIFFAGE! The Great KAT is a virtuoso in the field of ear-bleeding, thrash, shred-metal versions of classical pieces."
Dave Roberts
 
"Today one of the best ('shredding') is The Great Kat. Kat really is original and inventive and like nothing that has come before. One might compare her to Janis Joplin."
Chuck N. Baker
 
"The Great Kat is a leather-clad dominatrix who plays lightning-fast metal versions of the classics. This is sex meets shred as Kat rips through The Flight Of The Bumble Bee on electric guitar at 300 beats per minute."
Paul Cole
 
"To the beat of Beethoven at Full Speed. The extraordinary guitarist in this work shows a strong and terrifying personality. A DVD for heavy people, a strange mixture of rock, classical music, hemoglobin, some sex and terror."
Guillermo Aguilera
 
"The Great Kat, who you may know as one of the fastest, fiercest heavy metal guitar shredders in the universe. I popped it in, and was delighted to find some of the greatest heavy metal videos ever made. This lady is hard core. She plays Beethoven's symphonies the way he always intended: incredibly fast and covered in blood."
 
"The Great Kat is a trained violinist in addition to being one of the fastest guitarists. She is perhaps the best in the world at mixing speed metal and famous classical pieces by composers such as Beethoven, Paganini, Wagner and Vivaldi."
Rune Grande
 
"It is my honor to say that her music videos are even more warped and gory than they were when I first started listening to her music! She’s known for awesome guitar shredding, playing classical songs at fast speeds, screaming, and being worshipped."
Mike Burmeister
 
"I never saw such a guitar play before and I think I will never see it again. Incredible technique! The Great Kat managed to play guitar at the highest speed possible. And she is precise like a clock (I mean an atom-clock here). One of the best guitar plays on this globe. Her technique is incredible and cannot be copied by most of the guitarist out there. Every guitar hero fan can enjoy watching this. One of the best guitarist on this planet."
Cy Ghul
 
"Get The Great Kat's Beethoven's Guitar Shred DVD, a hot girl doing metal to classical."
 
"Breath-taking rendition of 'Flight of the Bumblebee' which topped out at near 400 bpm. Insane fast that is... Also, she's insane, megalomaniacal, great big hair, and has a killer body."
Der Schatten
 
"Ultra-Speed Metal of incredible dexterity. She lays her hands with incredible ready fingers and flying speed on the works of great masters. Beethoven's 5th Symphony, Bach's Third Brandenburg Concerto, and of course the famous Flight of the Bumblebee by Rimsky-Korsakov shredded at full speed. This is technically impressive."
Matthias Kerber
 
"Blood + Beethoven + metal = Great Kat. Uber-fast metal guitar wiz. She performed Beethoven tunes at top volume covered in blood and shrouded in flames."
Chris Riemenschneider
 
MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW'S 5 STARS REVIEW OF "BEETHOVEN'S GUITAR SHRED" DVD ON AMAZON.COM
"Especially recommended for metal fans."
 
"'Beethoven's Guitar Shred', a DVD featuring Kat's way over the top imagery and absolutely mindblowing guitar playing. Kat's technique through out the DVD has to be seen and heard to be believed; one can practically smell the fretboard frying."
WestSide Dave
 
"More female chauvinist than feminist, Kat is best described as a 21st century Janis Joplin who breaks out of the conventionally assigned gender role limitations of acceptable female behavior, creatively and otherwise, to give the historically male dominated music scene a woman's energy and edge."
Prairie Miller
 
"Raw, balls-in-your face of both metal and virtuosity that the Great Kat was able to deliver. The all-time reigning messiah."
Der Schatten
 
"Thrill again to the electrifying playing of The Great Kat in Beethoven's Guitar Shred."
Michael Janusonis
 
"One of the best guitarists in terms of command of the guitar, Katherine Thomas better known as 'The Great Kat'.  Undoubtedly, a girl with a big ego but extremely talented."
Susana Garcia de Alonzo
 
 "The Great Kat the best guitar shredder of our times."
Elmo Sapwater

"Mega fantastic DVD. THE GREAT KAT is one of the fastest, meanest, sexiest, loudest guitar and violin shredders of the entire universe." Rating: 11 points (out of 10)

Toine van Poorten
 
"Beethoven's Guitar Shred DVD is really awesome. So if you're a fan of blood and crazy guitar work, you just might want to grab this one."
FoundryMusicRob
 
"'Beethoven's Fifth' and 'Paganini's Caprice #24' get a boost of amphetamines, going by in a blur of notes that's over nearly as soon as it starts. Shredder acrobatics and shocking stage show. The Great Kat's place as one of the top 10 fastest guitar-shredders in the world is definitely secure! I can highly recommend these to all fans of hers. Hear some classics played at speeds you can scarcely imagine while have your senses shaken in every conceivable way."
Nolan B. Canova
 
"She can shred like a monster goddess. Her music of choice is Beethoven, Rossini, and Wagner. Think you've heard Flight of the Bumble Bee? Try it from a long haired, leather clad dominatrix with an axe."
 
"Beethoven's Guitar Shred" DVD Rates 10 OUT OF 10
 
"The Great Kat plays at lightening speed that it’s impossible to see her fingers moving up and down the fret. Layers upon layers of intricate fast guitar playing that will make grown men and women sell their guitars. The Great Kat is a musical enigma bringing together what some might consider God’s soundtrack and the Devil’s music in a raging war. Great stuff."
Jim Ody
 
"The Great Kat is famous for her thrash metal interpretations of well known pieces of classical music. Although she is an accomplished violinist, this concentrates on her virtuoso use of the electric guitar.  Kat gets through a number of well known pieces at breakneck speed."
David Burbidge
 
"The Great Kat’s guitar playing is ridiculously fast. Kat Thomas' tears in to The Flight Of the Bumble Bee with accuracy and speed. Her shred rendition of Paganini’s Caprice #24 is also at a mind-blowing speed. Beethoven’s 5th Symphony is nimble, precise and fast. Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto ends the classical shred on this DVD with a bang and really leaves you wanting more."
Scott
 
"THE GREAT KAT is well-known as the virtuoso of guitar and the violin as well as as the original interpreter of works of classic music: Bach, Beethoven, Wagner, Mozart, Paganini and others. The artist is the champion of shredding. The works are played with improbable speed - these are the very quick, mad and furious compositions full of solos as well as brutal screams."
Gnom
"The Great Kat takes guitar playing, classical music, and performance wow-ness to a whole new level. She's outrageous, dangerous, and ferocious -- she's The Great Kat - and if you haven't heard her play yet, after you ingest this DVD you'll never be the same."
Melanie 'Sass' Falina
 
"The Great Kat is tearing the masters a fresh one on her new DVD, Beethoven's Guitar Shred. 'Flight of the Bumblebee,' in the hands of the Great Kat, becomes a teeth-gnashing, sphincter-seizing assault. The chick diddles the fret board like her digits are nothing less than an industrial machine."
Jeanne F.
 
"The Great Kat has spent much time trying to resurrect the respectability factor of these timeless masterpieces by ushering their complex note sequences via modern distortion and blinding guitar shred."
Ray Van Horn, Jr.
The Metal Minute
 
"This DVD from The Great Kat takes on the familiar journey of speed guitar and tongue-in-cheek humor."
Terry Bunch
Metal Life Magazine
 
"The original Queen of scream and metal shred returns with a collections of videos on one powerful DVD of intense metals that only THE GREAT KAT can deliver."
Billy Whitfield
Toxic Flyer Zine
 
"This juggernaut of jammin', ferocity of the fretboard, steamrolla of rock-and-rolla is, of course, THE GREAT KAT!!! BEETHOVEN’S GUITAR SHRED, the new DVD multi-media extravaganza which is nothing short of an aural and visual blitzkrieg."
Thom Copher
Heavy Metal Hog
 
"Another great DVD issued by the Great Kat. She looks great, she plays harder, as always the Great Kat is above the rest. Paganini done by the Great Kat is how it should be done."
Jason Saulnier, Radio Host
Good Time Metal Oldies Radio Show
 
"The Great Kat's 'Beethoven's Guitar Shred' DVD is INSANE!"
Bob Glaser
CitySlicker Entertainment Magazine
 
"Not for the weak of heart! This is one seriously wild ass ride!"
DJ Foothill
HighSpeed Magazine
 
"Very exact instrumental interpretations and always at full speed."
Eloy Teixido
Won E'mer Webzine
 
"'Beethoven's Guitar Shred' is ultrafast. 'The Flight Of The Bumble-Bee' rules. It runs at the speed of light and beyond."
Psychotron
Stereo Invaders
 
"The Great Kat has stamped a place in metal as not only a virtuoso but also as a fiery character. This DVD is a collection of her performing as a metal maiden, and the music videos are as enticing as they are entertaining.  It is indeed a treat to see any person play instruments at such punishing tempo."
Bill Zebub
The Grimoire
 
"Guitar aficionados marvel at the speed of her playing and her ability to maintain such precision despite that speed. Get a feel for what she's all about while watching her fingers fly up and down the frets. Pick up a copy and shred."
Larry McCloskey
 
"The Great Kat is a violinist guitarist who graduated from the prestigious Juilliard School. Her music evokes to the great masters of Classical music, with a touch of violent metal and a perfect technique. She was chosen among the ten fastest guitarists to ever, and YES, it must be said, this female plays like the Gods."
Angel
 
"Her ability to dazzle you with her speed and skill are not to be missed. The classical music selections highlight not only her shred virtuosity on the guitar, but violin as well. Witness her lightning speed and blinding virtuosity. While she is indeed quick and nimble on the strings, she plays with a clarity and exactness that belies her swiftness."
Michael E. Carver
 
"The sheer virtuosity of the woman is nothing short of flabbergasting. She goes from guitar to violin with ease, working with precision and speed. I liked very much her rendition of Bach's 3rd Brandenburg concerto. I have heard other versions including the famous Switched On Bach version from Wendy Carlos and Kat's version deserves a place in the list of famous interpretations of this masterpiece."
Jerry Fielden
 
"The world famous musical phenomenon that is called The Great Kat is back with an awesome DVD. An outstanding achievement on how Great Kat can shred these classical pieces of music and turn them into extreme Speed Metal with her genius virtuosity. Her ability to melt our ear drums with her furious shredding guitar technique."
Yiannis Z.
 
"'Beethoven's Guitar Shred' is entertaining from beginning to end. Jaw-dropping 'The Flight Of The Bumble-Bee'. What makes The Great Kat's fretwork so impressive isn't just her incredible speed but it's her clarity. She's playing classical music tunes on an electric guitar at around 300 beats per minute and you can hear every note. Man, she nails it!" Rating: 4 stars out of 4.
R. Scott Bolton

 

"Genius at work in this metal masterpiece. This Juilliard-trained violinist puts her intensely fast fingers to new use playing some of the fastest shredding you’re ever going to hear on both electric guitar and violin. Amazing version of 'Flight of the Bumblebee.'"
Jonathan Knell
 
David Slaughter
 
"The Great Kat. She's loud and profane. Her fretboard speed is awesome, and she'll take on all challengers to her classical-shred mastery. And, oh yeah, she gargles blood."
 
"Super shredder The Great Kat has a new DVD out: Beethoven’s Guitar Shred.  She toured with a classical orchestra before crossing over into more aggressive forms of self expression. But who cares about her pedigree? She can play Flight of the Bumblebee at 300 BPM."
Spencer Seidel
 
"Ultimate, electrifying, incandescent, revolutionary musician."
Naja Kemp
 
"What a blast! This DVD was something else! Very fast guitar and violin playing, a loud mixture of heavy metal and classical played by a buxom gal in a leather halter and black fish net stockings. Talk about roll over Beethoven! I enjoyed the mutant classical stuff on this DVD and plan on sharing it with other classical music/loud guitar fans."
Andrew M

 

"A beautiful woman that can shred 'Flight of the bumblebee' at 300bpm and eat your heart while doing it… literally!"
Asgardlord

 

"'Beethoven's Guitar Shred' is a very pleasant surprise! I am now able to watch her shredding on the guitar and enjoying every minute. I would give The Great Kat's 'Beethoven's Guitar Shred' a big thumbs up."
Dennis Day

 

"Not only can this crazy bitch play faster than everyone I just mentioned, but her riffs were no f**king nonsense. No ballads, no quiet s**t unless it was from a classical composition which she frequently played as she is a Juilliard graduate, specializing in the violin. Doesn't matter what you're into musically it's just retarded how fast she can play."
Ubermorte
 
"All ye faithful to lightning fast shreds, check it out!"
The Forgotten Scroll
 
"This Juilliard-trained violinist took famous classical pieces and turned them into thrash metal guitar opuses. She is known for her ridiculously quick playing.”
 
"The Great Kat's lightning-fingered homage to Ludwig van Beethoven."
 
"Mixing Classical Music with extremely fast guitar playing and  sadomasochism. A Musical revolution."
 
"The Great Kat's music evokes the grand masters of Classical Music, with a violent metal touch and perfect technique. This female plays like the Gods."
Gael
 
GIBSON LIFESTYLE NAMES THE GREAT KAT "8 OF THE WORLD'S FASTEST SHREDDERS"
"The Great Kat -  the world’s foremost female shredder. If you think composers like Antonio Vivaldi and Niccolo Paganini are just stuffy old white guys, wait until you see a leather-and-fishnet clad wild woman bump up the BPMs. You really need to see her videos in order to comprehend just how talented — and completely over-the-top — the Great Kat's persona is in person."
Jonah Bayer

 

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."
 
GUITAR ONE MAGAZINES NAMES THE GREAT KAT "TOP 10 FASTEST SHREDDERS OF ALL TIME"
"'Girl power' is a gross understatement. The world's first shredding dominatrix."
"She has technique galore -- playing incredibly fast (shredding). Her speed-demon take on classical music is fun to listen to. The driving rhythms at these speeds and amplification can be spectacular."
Andrew Druckenbrod
 
"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."
 
"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."
 
"The Great Kat a complete Triumph, once again in Excellent style, Shredder Extraordinaire! The Great Kat has the Distinction of being One of the few Women to Inspire, to encourage more Women to take up Guitar. She is a Remarkable Visionary: whose Performance is both Distinguished & Individualistic. The Great Kat plays her Guitar & Violin brilliantly tearing at a Tremendous Speed."
Naja Kemp
 
"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
"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
 
 
"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
 
"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
 
"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.
 
"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 world."
Rick Leider
Black Cat Media
 
"This utterly demented CD is so scrupulously arranged and impassioned that it can’t help but disturb"
CC
 
"Her pristine technique and flawless execution make 'Wagner's War' not only an enjoyable listening experience; it sets a modern standard of excellence for the shred guitarist."
Skinny Devil
 
 
"The Great Kat is, perhaps, the greatest female guitarist that this planet has ever seen."
Paul Autry
Spotlight Magazine
 
"I really don't know how she plays this fast. She will be the first to tell you that she's the fastest guitarist in the world, well after hearing this instrumental ("Hungarian Rhapsody #2") I can't help but say she may be right. She burns the guitar up on this one!"
Vampiro
 

"Rossini's Rape is the fastest, most acidic offering this side of hell. Between her violin and guitar assaults meshed with her classical piano onslaughts and the rage of her speed metal band, The Great Kat can be cloned by no one."
Liz Ciavarella
 
"Technologically intimidating instrumental work comprising implacable sulfate-over-dosed classical riffs, Gomez Addams harpsichord, horns and strings, all over and done with in just under six and a half minuten."
George Smith
 
 
"I’ve never heard classical music sound like this. ‘Rossini’s Rape’ is the best instrumental offering I’ve ever had the pleasure to hear."
Glenn Milligan
Metalliville Webzine
"The Great Kat shines because of the conspicuous capacity she has to play some instruments like the guitar, the violin, the violas. Listen to  Rossini's "William Tell Overture" and Bazzini's "The Round of the Goblins", which are very intense and we have to admit both of them have a pleasant peculiarity which you'll enjoy to listen for sure."
 
 
"Blood, guts, cleavage and severed male organs fly like mad,
while one hears Kat shriek and wail with delight."
Keith Carman
Varsity Review Magazine
 
 
"In the Great Kat's new music video, she prances around half-nekkid in a blood-soaked boudoir, kissing skeletons and castrating men."
Eric Searleman
 
 
"THE GODDESS FROM HELL HAS COME BACK!!! This is another crazy piece elaborated by the insane & genius mind of american classic gore grind goddess GREAT KAT"
Edgar Franco
 
"It has a totally insane speed & the Kat's vocals/screams just added more insanity. Plus the music is in the dark side of lust with pain, Yeah! in the S&M realm! With titles 'Sodomize' & 'Castration'. This is for Metal Heads with Metal B***s!!!!"
Roy Sierra
 
 
"The leather and lingerie-clad dominatrix of the heavy metal set has ripped through classical greats and original compositions at lightning speed, discombobulating our traditional perspectives of classical music and sending her devout followers into spasmodic reveries. And with the release of the recent 'Rossini's Rape' and gory video for "Castration", she continues to overload our senses."
Bryan Reesman
KNAC.com Magazine
 
 
"'Rossini’s Rape' is a masterpiece. It is an album that the Cape as been yearning for, for many, many years and we are indebted to the genius of one fine, foxy and extremely clever young lady for delivering it. Ball bursting pleasure from The Great Kat; a living breathing pioneer." 
Rodborth
Glitzy Cape
 
 
 
"The songs are very complex, loud, and powerful. 'Rossini's William Tell Overture' is a GREAT version, intense, ultra-fast piece featuring Kat on guitar, violins and viola."
Renzo Parodi
Psicoterror Zine
 
 
"This is new classic masterpiece blasting symphony!!! The Great Kat plays guitar and violin very fast and blasts with supersonic power while she rapes the boys."
Putra Pande
 
"With the last track Bazzini's ' The Round of the Goblins' she shows off her talents once again not only on guitar but violin as well. With fiery speed and technique The Great Kat proves she can master anything or anybody, for that matter."
Kathryn Smith
 
 
"Classical trained on the violin, The Great Kat shows you how real classical music should be played, forget yngwie, this girl rocks!!"
Jason Brown
Friday 13th Zine
 
 
 
"Kat is exceptionally gifted, a true musical genius who remains light years ahead of the rest. The Great Kat is a one of a kind artist and, in this life time, I don't think we'll see anyone else who can match what she has done and continues to do. All Hail The Great Kat because she is your Goddess!
Paul Autry
Spotlight Magazine
 
"Rossini's 'William Tell Overture' for Symphony Orchestra & band plays like the sci-fi soundtrack to a William Gibson version of the Lone Ranger and Bazzini's 'The Round of the Goblins' for violin, piano and band is a dizzying cornucopia of mayhem and madness."
R. Scott Bolton
 Rough Edge Magazine
 
"That is a new true fast insanity of the brilliant goddess GREAT KAT, a torture chamber where KAT hurts hers slaves while she plays her guitar furiously to the speed of the light."
Edgar Franco
Krepuskulum Webzine
 
"To many people, when you first Discover or meet The Great Kat, they will be immediately be shocked by her appearances , but if you are looking for a great talent that you cannot find in this world, The truth and answer is the Great Kat! The Kat is of great quality for Arts and of course her famous speed classical guitar movements from HELL ! True metal lover!"
Oriental Choice of Music Force
 
"Guitar virtuosos who enjoy classical Metal from the likes of Yngwie Malmstein will be very happy with this release. Malmstein's Metal is a weak counterpart of what the Kat's mastermind can do on both the guitar and violins."
Heavy Metal Lives
 
"I am left speechless as I stare at this CD. 'Digital Beethoven On Cyberspeed' is the mark of a traveler, teacher and prophet."
Abbas Jaffary
 
 
 
"Within the first 15 seconds your heart and soul WILL be brought to their knees with a mercilessly beautiful violin, truly one of the best extensions of herself I've heard.  Her forceful overshadowing of complex rhythmic purity and diabolically acute instrumentational precision allow her preeminence to manipulate one's emotions, without question."
Abbas Jaffary
 
 
"Bloody Vivaldi" is a short and intense 4 song 7 min. 23 sec. onslaught of twisted classical music offering a brutal mix of violin and guitar wizardry bordering on insanity."
Greg Cataline
MUEN Magazine
 
 
"This woman is a myth of the metal!!! THE goddess of the human deterioration and of the millennium end, uniting with brilliant idea tortures and classic music.  THE GREAT KAT IS GOD!!!!!"
Edgar Franco
Krepuskulum Magazine
 
"Sadistic, immoral, bloody, vicious
but talentuous here is the maestro of the 6 strings."
Christophe Ciretti
Innate Magazine
 
"Man, this is intense!  Blood, Chains & Chainsaws, Large drills
being drilled into the chest cavity, boiling water and other pleasant aspects abound."
Ryan Lunatic
The Crusader E-Zine
 
"Some of the fastest guitar and violin work I have ever heard."
Philip Cantore
UIC Today Magazine


"You will definitely find yourself partaking in this video more than once, depending on your perversion level."
Lunatic
The Crusader Fanzine


"Every music aficionado would be completely struck in awe after hearing her."
Faisal Fahimullah
Gothic Times Magazine


"The music bedazzles and paralyzes! For 2 minutes 12 seconds the cyberspeed version of the classical blockbuster starts the revolution in heavy metal."
Andrey Grishel
Vox Mortis


"If lightning fast guitar romps or half nude abusing dominatrix's or the sight of multiple torture devices sound anything like your cup of shed-blood, then your money's already in the mail!"
The Metallian


"This video is totally sick with insanely intense guitar shredding."
Larry Lava
Metalurgy's "Live Evil"


"KAT is more than proving that she is a God of guitar shred and has now advanced in the visual world. Watch in horror as KAT serves the dementia up on a silver platter or fret board."
Matt
Hammerhead Zine


"The Great Kat is someone special - it's the phenomenon, because - it's not enough that she's beautiful woman, more - she knows what the guitar is all about and she plays it perfectly and really flashy."
Lukasz Jaszak
Morbid Noizz Magazine


"The version of Vivaldi's 'The Four Seasons' is my favorite showcasing Kat's incredible violin technique and speed."
Ryan Kriste
The Crusader Fanzine


"'Blood' was another audio assault that grabbed me by the throat for an all too brief 39 seconds of total terror as I envisioned hunting and grizzly images a la Kubrick's 'The Shining'."
Michel Berandi
Panik Magazine


"This is the sickest 2 1/2 minutes ever captured on film! 'Torture Chamber' is a visual and aural orgasm."
Pat Egan
Good Times Magazine


"A triumph of imagery meshing pleasure with pain, music with masochism, theatre of the mind with mind-blowing classically-propelled metal."
Slappy Morgan
Long Island Entertainment Magazine


"With blistering speed and impressive metal chops, The Great Kat has injected classical music with "cyberspeed," bringing it into the 20th Century."
R. Scott Bolton
Rough Edge Magazine


"She takes beautiful old classical compositions and whips them into shape, abuses them, and spits them out as speed metal masterpieces."
Neo-Barbaric Zine


"This is Heavy Metal and she is the master! An absolute musical genius. Full speed, aggressive Metal from far beyond our time."
Steve Ravic
Metal Warriors "Heavy Metal News" Magazine


"Great musician, excellent combination of orchestra and metal, choatic as romantic vocals/screams, great production, orgasmic solos from the violin and now I AM A SLAVE TO THE GREAT KAT!"
Paul Sanchez
Death By Metal Zine


"She takes beautiful old classical compositions and whips them into shape, abuses them, and spits them out as speed metal masterpieces."
Neo-Barbaric Zine


"The Great Kat has created an unmistakable sound, and her intimidating personality reaches for the jugular of any concert-goer or listener."
David Sherman
Soundstage Magazine


"High speed electric guitars and violins make the center of the music. Blood, screams and torture surrounds the music of insanity."
Nordic Vision Magazine


"The biggest and best surprise was that The Great Kat isn't all flash and gore, but a very intelligent person, which is a nice addition to an already talented musician."
Keith McDonald
Inside Connection Magazine


"KAT is at her best when she transforms classical music into blistering cyberspeed metal, no one can touch her."
Tim Maher
D.B.N. Magazine


"'Torture Chamber' and 'Blood' are truly shocking pieces. The electric guitar sounds louder and louder, in a dark crescendo, and the voice of the artist makes the listener's hairs stand on end. "
A.Hinojosa
Amazing Sounds


"The velocity and harmony accomplished by Katherine Thomas on this CD is absolutely amazing! Get a dose of speed! "
Ricardo Brenes
Infernal Nation Zine


"Insane guitar gymnastics. This is totally original and innovative, and yes, heavy and extreme! "
Shane Tolle
Last Judgement Zine


"If you ever appreciated the beauty of Classical music and have respect for the great composers and history you'll appreciate this CD-ROM. There should be more releases like this."
Ricardo Brenes
Infernal Nation Zine


"The song 'Torture Chamber' is what it would sound like if you were being murdered by a guitar wielding dominatrix."
Tommy Voelker
Devil's Triangle Zine


"She's a bondage queen, an excellent musician and has a real penchant for self-promotion. Let your fingers bleed, the future is cyberspeed."
Aaron Gustafson
The Fritz Magazine

"An outrageous excess of virtuosism. Hyper-perfectionist technique and killer riffs"
Armando Mutilator
 
"The new masterpiece 'Bloody Vivaldi' contains four extremely well-executed Classical/Metal tracks, which stands for pure virtuosity and eminent talent of the mighty Great Kat."
Cornelius Kontros
Encomium Zine


"Totally superb! Retaining all of the melodic glory of the original and bringing it up to date with a bang, nay, an explosion of musical dexterity and powerful passion.
'Bloody Vivaldi' has to be heard to be believed."
Louis Ravensfield
Bloodstone Magazine


"Simply amazing!
This Four Seasons' quality is prodigiously incredible! "
Pom'
Live Steel Zine


"The Great Kat separates herself from the others in her field by combining speed metal and classical music, making this weird combination a real winner."
Keith McDonald
The Inside Connection


"Most noteworthy is the speed at which these songs fly out at the listener as being able to play so fast and be so precise are the attributes of this accomplished player."
SW
Unrestrained! Zine


"This Juilliard-trained violin and guitar virtuoso displays the kind of blazing speed that shoots down all the other contenders for the 'guitar god' throne."
Scott Barker
Tucson Lifestyle Magazine


"Nobody can touch The Great Kat! You will never in your life look at classical music the same after you hear Kat. I give this CD an A+."
Mike Jones
The Risk Street Team


"This CD is a piece of Art. Extraordinarily played. The versions are incredible."
Sergio Sousa
King of Lusitania Zine


"'Torture Chamber' rips at the flesh then gets a touch twisted and industrial.
A way darker side of The Master Kat."
Matt
Hammerhead Zine


"Kat proves that She reached a so high level of genius that nobody can be compared to her. The Great Kat is unique, The Great Kat is genuine, She is really the best !"
Laurent Bocquet
The French Connection


"On Vivaldi's 'The Four Seasons' , speeeeeed merchant, The Great Kat, unleashes yet another sonic burst of hyperspeed guitar and violin.
It's all a powerpacked 2:12, and damn good."
Mike G
Metal Maniacs Magazine


"Once again The Great Kat shows you that no one can match her musical genius and proves that it's one of the best CD-ROMS ever made! Bravo!"
Pat Egan
Good Times Magazine


"Opening with a lightning-speed rendition of Vivaldi's 'Four Seasons', The
Great Kat takes away all doubt of the range and scope of her virtuoso talents. We are quite impressed with her ability to cross lines, push the envelope, and cram her bleeding message down your gagging throat. Bravo!"
Scott Johnson
Red Magazine


"The Great Kat is a guitar goddess. Not only is she the most skilled speed guitarist out there, she also plays a mean electric violin and performs wonderful renditions of Classical tracks on this record."
Aaron Gustafson
The Fritz


"The Great Kat is a female guitarist who plays virtuoso guitar on such a high tempo and precision that is amazing. She is a master of the guitars. "
Attila
Nightwalk Magazine


"Bloody, shrieking, guitars screeching out the most evil and vile renditions
of classical music your ears will ever bleed to. "
Cary G.
Mainstream Resistance


"This latest piece of recorded madness from guitar virtuoso "The Great Kat" sees her continuing to take the classical music from world famous composers and shred it up into a hundred million pieces scattered on the floor - then piece it back together and record it about ten times faster and louder.
That's what she does, and she's amazingly gifted at it."
Vinnie Apicella
Access to the Music Zone


"The four songs on the new CD, two Classical pieces, Vivaldi's 'The Four Seasons' and Sarasate's 'Carmen Fantasy,' as well as two Kat originals, will absolutely change your heartbeat. Speed, simply put, rules."
John Blenn
Long Island Entertainment Magazine


"Kat's ferocious speed demon way of playing guitar is amazing. Kat comes in with a few quick punches and leaves the listener reeling."
Kim Callahan
UnSealed Ezine


"'Sarasate's Carmen Fantasy For Violin & Band', a masterpiece of music that should prove an influence on bands heading in this direction."
hEARd Magazine


"This video is some of the sickest I've seen. It all looks like a mixture of a live performance, an S/M meeting and a satanic mass. It's one of my favorite videos."
Marcus Karlsson
Marcus Karlsson's Homepage for Extreme Metal


"'Zigeunerweisen' is stamped by a duel of classical violin virtuosity and THE GREAT KAT's cyberspeeding guitar riffs - I've never heard something like this before."
Oliver Schönknecht
Nightshade Magazine


"You have to strap yourself down when you listen to this vicious, hyperspeed CD. Without The Great Kat where would Classical Music be?"
Paul Beyer
Under The Corpse Zine


"Cyberspeed, The Great Kat's personal contribution to the ongoing evolution to the genre of rock-n-roll, is a fusion of classical and thrash, nasty adrenalinized speedmetal played at blistering speeds."
Riff Gibson
Raging Smolder Music Review



"Her solos are incredible. She often plays arrangements of classical songs like Rossini, Beethoven, ...but at a very high speed. This shows her extreme dexterity."
Laurent Bocquet
The Unofficial Underground Heavy Metal Bands Page



"One of the most incredible guitarists I have ever heard. With lightening speed, she moves at a pace that very few guitarists can replicate. Impeccable timing and obviously classically trained, the Great Kat is definitely talented."
Gary King
Raw Indie Rock Zine


"Sarasate's Gypsy violin waltz, 'Zigeunerweisen,' a mere 1:13, yet brimming with inventive licks at lightning warp speed."
Mike G
Metal Maniacs Magazine


"If you have a sense of humor and a taste for the unusual, plunge on ahead and let this Juilliard-trained violinist turned guitar-wielding dominatrix offer you her cyberspeed renditions of Beethoven, Paganini and company."
Bob Suter
Newsday


"Kat's hyper-driven humor and aggressive presence may be exactly what is needed to set straight the basics of Beethoven and Bach."
Marilyn A. Gillen
Billboard Magazine

"Her music isn't heard; it's felt. Loud and constant, it cuts through the listener's body like a blunt knife."
Farhan Memon
New York Post


"Get ready for a jolt!"
Martin Goldsmith
National Public Radio


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