After leaving high school and playing the club circuit around the New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania areas with his brother Albert ( a singer ) for most of the 1980s, Greg Howe officially began his solo career after sending a demo tape to Shrapnel Records in 1987, upon which he was immediately signed by founder Mike Varney.

Greg Howe is the self-titled first studio album by guitarist Greg Howe, released in 1988 through Shrapnel Records.

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* Instrumental Intensity ( 2010, Shrapnel Records compilation )

Earlier in 2005 Marc had released his debut solo album, Colossal Myopia, through Shrapnel Records, and in 2007 he prepared his follow-up, The Ultimate Devotion, which has now been released.

Around 1981-82, he first contacted Mike Varney, founder of Shrapnel Records, asking for a gig with Ozzy Osbourne.

A collaboration in 1990 with fusion guitarist Frank Gambale came about in the form of Truth in Shredding, an ambitious collaborative project put together by Mark Varney ( brother of Shrapnel Records founder Mike Varney ) through his Legato Records label.

High Gear is the first studio album by the band Howe II, released in 1989 through Shrapnel Records.

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Speed Metal Symphony is the first studio album by heavy metal band Cacophony, released in 1987 through Shrapnel Records.

Category: Shrapnel Records albums

The " golden age " of neo-classical metal in the middle to late 1980s revolved around the sizeable roster of flashy electric-guitar soloists who recorded mostly instrumental albums for Mike Varney's Shrapnel Records label.

Swedish guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen, widely regarded as the originator and still-reigning king of neo-classical metal, was brought to the United States by Varney to sign with Shrapnel Records in 1982.

IV-Unsung Guitar Heroes, Stratosphere II, Shrapnel Records

Kotzen was eventually discovered by Shrapnel Records ' Mike Varney, and he recorded his first solo album by the age of 19.

He is the founder of the Shrapnel Label Group, which includes Shrapnel Records, Tone Center Records and Blues Bureau International.

Prior to forming Shrapnel Records, Mike Varney played extensively with the pre-punk San Francisco band, The Nuns.

Shrapnel Records was founded in 1980 by Mike Varney at the age of 22.

Several players who were featured received opportunities to record with Shrapnel Records.

* Shrapnel Records Official MySpace Site

Shrapnel was sometimes placed in the barrel, so that it would fly out along with the flames.

Henry Shrapnel was promoted to Major in the same year.

Henry Shrapnel ( 3 June 1761 – 13 March 1842 ) was a British Army officer and inventor, most famously, of the " shrapnel shell ".

Henry Shrapnel was born at Midway Manor in Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, England.

Shrapnel served in Flanders where he was wounded in 1793 and was promoted to major on 1 November 1803 after eight years as a captain.

After his invention's success in battle on 30 April 1804, Shrapnel was promoted to lieutenant colonel on 20 July 1804, less than nine months later.

The album was a success, and the album after that, Songs for Sanity, which features guest appearances by Steve Vai and Albert Lee, was met with more success, becoming one of the top selling records on the record label Shrapnel.

At the age of 13, he was profiled in Guitar Player magazine and Shrapnel Magazine as a rising young star.

A modern version of the game entitled Space HoRSE was developed in 2004 by Gilligames and distributed by Shrapnel Games.

Rarely performed, Timon was produced for TV as part of the BBC Television Shakespeare series in 1981 with Jonathan Pryce as Timon, Norman Rodway as Apemantus, John Welsh as Flavius, and John Shrapnel as Alcibiades, with Diana Dors as Timandra, Tony Jay as the Merchant, Sebastian Shaw as the Old Athenian, and John Fortune and John Bird as Poet and Painter.

Shrapnel wounds suffered in December 1968 caused him to finish out his tour of duty in a Philadelphia veterans hospital, from which he was released in March 1970.

It was developed by Illwinter Game Design and published by Shrapnel Games.

As other labels followed suit, Shrapnel set itself apart from the pack by focusing on bands featuring guitarists of extraordinary ability and was at the forefront of the neo-classical electric guitar and shred movements.

In his 2005 poem ' Shrapnel ' poet Tony Harrison, who was in Beeston on the night of the raid, speculates whether this was an act of heroism by the Luftwaffe pilot, a theory that has been explored ever since the raid.

The band began the recording process in 1985, and Racer X's debut album Street Lethal was released on January 1, 1986 on Mike Varney's Shrapnel Records label.

Shrapnel was effective against troops in the open, including those serving guns without gun shields.

In his next appearance ( in the Our Worlds At War storyline in Adventures of Superman # 593 ), Black was hired by the American government and President Lex Luthor to lead a new Suicide Squad featuring Chemo, Plasmus, Shrapnel, and Steel.

* The British Army first uses shrapnel shells (" spherical case shot "), invented by Major Henry Shrapnel, in action, against the Dutch in Suriname.

Dragon's Kiss is the first studio album by guitarist Marty Friedman, released on August 8, 1988 through Shrapnel Records ( United States ) and Roadrunner Records ( Europe ).

He nearly signed onto a guitar-based label Shrapnel, but turned it down to work on his budding songwriting skills.

Shrapnel Records is a guitar-oriented record label started in 1980 by record producer Mike Varney.

The Shrapnel Records label and a growing worldwide interest in virtuoso " neoclassical-fusion " guitar playing helped launch the careers of dozens of other technically adept guitarists such as David T. Chastain, Vinnie Moore, Tony MacAlpine, Paul Gilbert, Bruce Bouillet, Joey Tafolla, Jason Becker, Michelle Meldrum and Nicole Couch ( Phantom Blue ), Greg Howe, Richie Kotzen and the aforementioned Marty Friedman.

In September, 2009 Scott Kinsey announced on a Facebook group devoted to Tribal Tech that the band was reforming to record an album in May, 2010 for the Tone Center / Shrapnel label.