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About Ola Englund

Time to do a little longer presentation. I'm Ola Englund, born 1981, live in Stockholm Sweden together with my wife, son and dog. I've been playing guitar since 1994. My biggest influence that got me into guitar playing was actually Kurt Cobain of Nirvana. He made it easy to play guitar. Quickly after the metal music world opened up to me, starting with Pantera and Bolt Thrower. With the release of Far beyond Driven I was hooked, I had never heard anything more raw and brutal. Dimebag is my biggest influence of all time, you could probably hear a lot of him in my riffing. I can name a lot of other thrash/metal bands that I listened to to this day but I'm just going to the name the ones that really made an impact on me playing and music wise. I started listening to Dream Theater and John Petrucci with the release of their Falling into infinity album. Some claim it's their worst album but it's actually my fave. Shows a different side to Dream Theater other than Awake and Images and Words. Anyway John Petrucci has been a big influence on my lead playing. At this time I started playing in bands, the most serious and successful(if you can call one record release a success) one was Subcyde. If you search for it on google you'll probably going to find old demos and reviews and stuff. We kept going from 1997-2007 so it was kind of a long journey with great friends. In 2007 we put the band on hold. We all needed to get away from each other and try out new things. I had a lot of songs piling up so I found this singer and we started the project Feared together. Easy setup. Just me recording songs and then put vocals on them. We formed a real band and did around 10 gigs. The singer moved to another town in Sweden so we put the real band on hold. But I've kept recording songs as you can see and hear on my youtube page. In the beginning of 2010 I joined the band Scarpoint as a second and lead guitarist. I've always been a huge fan of brutal guitars and I've always been searching for the perfect sound(don't we all!). I've been recording bands and stuff since Cakewalk 8 or 9 so I've had my share bit of recording. Also went to school a year for a Audio Engineer degree. In 2003 I built a studio together with a friend in Stockholm. The studio is still active and is called Midtown Music. I've owned several amps in chronological order(probably forgotten a few): Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier 94 Triaxis 2:90 setup Engl 530 Preamp 2:90 setup Engl Powerball Peavey 5150 block Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier 95 Peavey XXX Framus Cobra Engl Savage Engl Blackmore Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier three channel Hmmm seems like I for some reason get back to the Dual Rectifier ;) My current equipment: Guitars: Ibanez RGD2120 Ibanez RGD2127z Ibanez MTM2 Ibanez RG1527 RB Fender Telecaster Amps: Axe Fx with QSC plx1602 Carvin 4x12 cabs x2 Harley Benton 2x12 Mesa Boogie Roadster 2x12 Recording Gear: iMac27" Logic 9 Apogee One interface Many microphones but what I use mainly are Shure SM57 and Sennheiser MD421. Hit me on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ola... The bands I'm in: Feared: http//www.myspace.com/fearedband Scarpoint: http://www.myspace.com/scar... Feel free to ask me anything and I'll try to help out. But keep in mind that I get A LOT of mails every day. I read through all the mails but I might not be able to answer all of them.