The Great Kat (USA) - Total Insanity (2008) mp3@320 Speed-Thrash Metal-Shred

The Great Kat - Total Insanity

Band: The Great Kat
Album: Total Insanity (Best Of / Compilation)
Origin: United States of America (New York City, New York)
Genre: Speed / Thrash Metal ; Shred
Label: TPR Music
Released: 2008
Format: mp3@320 kbps
Kat site: http://www.greatkat.com/
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Tracklist CD1:

01 - Beethoven On Speed (1:55)
02 - Goddess (5:05)
03 - Metal Messiah (2:58)
04 - Cyberspeed (1:47)
05 - Kat Possessed (2:42)
06 - Dead-Dead (3:18)
07 - Death To You (2:12)
08 - Flight Of The Bumblebee (2:07)
09 - Ride Of the Valkyries (1:25)
10 - Paganini's Caprice 9 (0:52)
11 - Revenge Mongrel (1:31)
12 - Satan Goes To Church (3:05)
13 - Bach's Partita 3 (0:44)
14 - Funeral March (3:08)
15 - Worship Me Or Die (2:02)
16 - Demons (2:43)
17 - Kat-Abuse (1:54)
18 - God! (1:17)
19 - Speed Death (2:38)
20 - Kill The Mothers (2:43)
21 - Made In Japan (1:49)
22 - Metal Massacre (1:57)
23 - Paganini's 24th Caprice (1:51)
24 - Worshipping Bodies (2:31)
25 - Back To The Future For Genuis (0:25)


Tracklist CD2:

01 - Rossini's - William Tell Overture - For Symphony Orchestra (1:55)
02 - The Barber of Seville (2:12)
03 - The Ride Of The Valkyries (1:34)
04 - Vivaldi's The Four Seasons For Violin, Chamber Orchestra (2:12)
05 - Dominatrix (2:23)
06 - Sodomize (1:42)
07 - Torture Chamber (2:27)
08 - War (1:24)
09 - Blood (0:39)
10 - 10 Castration (1:12)
11 - Feast Of The Dead (2:07)
12 - Terror (1:22)
13 - The Round Of The Goblins - For Violin, Piano (1:34)
14 - Punishment (1:28)
15 - Sarasate's Carmen Fantasy For Violin & Band (2:03)
16 - Sarasates Gypsy Violin Waltz (1:16)
17 - Humiliation (1:07)
18 - Hungarian Rhapsody 2 (2:11)
19 - Zapateado (1:58)
20 - Ashes To Dust (4:08)
21 - Sex & Violins (1:28)
22 - Beethoven Mosh (2:09)
23 - Satan Says (2:57)
24 - Gripping Obsession (2:22)
25 - Guitar Concerto In Blood Minor (2:38)
26 - Total Tyrant (1:59)

Total playing time: 01:45:06


Current line-up:

Kat (Katherine Thomas) - Vocals, Guitar, Violins
Jeff Ingegno - Bass
Lionel Cordew - Drums


Bio The Great Kat:

The Great Kat was born Katherine Thomas in Swindon, England (on a U.S. Air Force Base Military Hospital) and moved to the U.S at the age of 3. After listening to Beethoven since birth, The Great Kat realized that her mission was to become a composer and musical revolutionary. Kat began Classical piano studies at 7. At the age of 9, she began Classical violin studies in New York.

At the age of 15, The Great Kat won a Full Scholarship to attend the prestigious Juilliard School in New York City as a Violin Student. The Great Kat became the Concertmaster of the Juilliard Pre-College Orchestra and won the "Robert Hufstader Scholarship" in Theory at Juilliard. The Great Kat graduated with Honors from The Juilliard School and began performing, first as a Classical violin soloist at Carnegie Recital Hall as winner of the exclusive "Artists International Competition" and then soloing extensively in Mexico, the U.S. and Europe.

After touring the world, The Great Kat realized that Classical music was dead, so she began updating Classical Music with Speed Metal and transcribed intricate violin solos to the guitar. Kat developed a new genre of music: SHRED/CLASSICAL Music -- Fast, Furious, and Virtuosic.