Tosin mothafuckin' Abasi is one of the greatest shredders in modern metal. His band, Animals As Leaders constantly pushes boundaries. He is an inspiration to guitar players ever, and he's only getting better.
While in the studio recording the next Animals record, tentatively due this summer, Tosin has been fiddling with some new techniques. In this new video, Tosin plays the guitar to sound almost exactly like a harp, using a technique that combines sweep and hybrid picking for "a circular, harp-like effect," as he describes it. Take a look:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74cgbImxBLE[/youtube]
Tosin is an amazing musician, and probably very satisfying to his girlfriend, ifunowutimean.
On a related note, Tosin recently was interviewed by Artist Direct saying the new album is less electronic-driven, which gets me really excited for this thing:
“We’ve done pre-production on more than half of it. We’re still writing the last 30 percent of it actually. There’s over half an hour of music. The approach is the same, but some of the creative choices are different. On Weightless, we were experimenting with processing guitar audio and having parts that were almost based around the electronic elements.
The song structures were simpler. We were trying to limit the amount of parts per song. On the newer material, I ended up going to work with Misha Mansoor just to return to some of the vibe of the first album he and I did together. At this point, it’s less electronic-driven.
I don’t want to say it sounds like the first album, but there is that degree of Misha‘s involvement with the arrangements.Then, there’s newer material arising from the dynamic between me, Matt, and Javier. There will be some cool surprises that aren’t any of the Animals As Leaders’ albums.”
Fuck yes!
