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Related: Christian Muenzner is an extreme metal guitarist who was diagnosed with focal dystonia in his left hand. He was part of Obscura, one of my favorite met

Related: Christian Muenzner is an extreme metal guitarist who was diagnosed with focal dystonia in his left hand. He was part of Obscura, one of my favorite metal bands ever. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Munzner#Focal_Dystonia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Munzner#Focal_Dyston... -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAPpXcvGpps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAPpXcvGpps Listen to this from about 4:00 onwards, and tell me if you'd ordinarily be able to guess that the sounds you hear at 4:20 or so came out of a guitar. I wouldn't, at least not at once. After the diagnosis, he was faced with a, uh, unreliable left hand. There was nothing to do but take his right-hand "tapping" abilities to insane levels. :)

mabramo 9y ago
Great to see a fellow tech death/extreme metal lover here. Obscura, Necrophagist, and played with Ron Jarzombek. That's some history right there. Tom Fountainhead (ex-Obscura) recently published a cover of a track off Akroasis. Fretless guitar tapping everywhere https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_AXZRGVrWk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_AXZRGVrWk
- mrkgnao 9y ago
  Hey! Tech-death isn't what I listen to nowadays, mostly, but it's where I started from. I learned to appreciate complexity in music from there, and branched out to other things. Still do enjoy the occasional Gorguts listen, though. (Your link is excellent.)