Candlelight Red Guitarist Jeremy Edge: 5 Albums That Changed My Life

"Growing up with two older sisters and managing to get my hands on some of their collection, this is one of the records that I fell in love with at an early age. I think hearing "War Pigs" with the huge opening power chords, air raid siren and captivating lyrics even at around 10-years-old grabbed me! I remember hearing the sound of the guitar with distortion and thinking "How do they make it sound like that?" Little did I know that was the start of my love affair with heavy riffs and boutique amplifiers! Hearing Ozzy Osbourne's voice tell the tale of a horrifying war-induced Armageddon drummed up images of what I had seen on tv and heard in school about nuclear war. This new music was dark and exciting to me. As a birthday present, my sisters got me a ticket to see Black Sabbath with vocalist Ronnie James Dio and once I saw a concert I would say that shaped where my life was going to go. I was hooked. It's amazing how a powerful sounding piece of music can shape your future."

Physical Graffitti, Led Zeppelin (1975)

"This is another one that I enjoyed from early on. I liked Zep because of the broad range of musical influences. They were this heavy rock band but had all this color to their music. As Jimmy Page would say, "Light and Shade." Unlike Sabbath which was kind of a consistent theme, these guys used every influence under the sun, country, folk, celtic, middle eastern, funk, delta blues you name it and they experimented with it. But somehow it always sounded like Zep! Just guitar, vocals, bass and drums. With their own unique playing style. I was a Zep nut for years, reading up plenty of interviews with Page. I think we actually used some of that philosophy recording our latest ep. We literally started tracking once we were onto something. Very spontaneous. Page always described how recording music was like trying to capture a moment in time. And that perfect moment comes when it comes. You can't rehearse it to death until it's stale."

Master of Puppets, Metallica (1986)

"This was another record that I heard that just changed my view of music. I got introduced to Metallica and got the first three records at one time. I felt this one was the pinnacle of what they had recorded. Hearing those palm mutes, fast riffs, long intros this stuff was just sonic-ally so bombastic. It was like hearing Sabbath for the first time. I sat around for hours trying to get that palm-muting technique. As Metallica went on they became something else. Whether that was good or bad is debatable but to me this was that perfect time for them where they were the loudest, tightest and most impressive. It still has impact today."

Far Beyond Driven, Pantera (1994)

"I was just really getting into Pantera and digging Cowboys from Hell and Vulgar Display of Power and I remember getting this CD the day it came out. I played it over and over! Pantera were doing something different. It was raw and over the top. It was a middle finger to all the pretty boy hair bands of the late eighties and even the emerging grunge bands. And this album to me was the most over the top of all. The guitar playing, double-kick drum stuff, the lyrics... I think it was pantera hitting their stride and defining themselves. Dime's guitar playing was just incredible. His guitar had a voice. And it was not timid. Whether he was playing one note or a hundred, you knew it was him. That cd helped shape who am as a guitarist and a musician."

Around the Fur, Deftones

"I first saw the Deftones way back in 1996. I was just starting to get serious about playing in bands and hooking up with a really good one then. I saw them in a small club that held about 200 people. They were so intense. The audience and the band had this incredible energy. The band had some of the most intense, climactic breakdowns you can imagine. When Around the Furcame out, it was just amazing. I couldn't listen to it enough. To me these guys had redefined what a heavy band could and could not do. They mixed the lightest, dreamiest vocal lines of the most brutal of riffs. And they had this coolness, this mystique about their sound and lyrics that was so vague. Probably my favorite band ever!"Watch Candlelight Red's 'Demons' Video

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UPROAR Tour dates:

Date Market Venue
Tuesday, 9/18 Denver, CO Comfort Dental Amphitheater *****
Wednesday, 9/19 Salt Lake City, UT USANA Amphitheatre ***
Friday, 9/21 Spokane, WA Greyhound Park and Events Center ***
Saturday, 9/22 Auburn, WA White River Amphitheatre ***
Sunday, 9/23 Portland, OR Sleep Country Amphitheater ***
Tuesday, 9/25 Boise, ID Idaho Center Amphitheater ***
Saturday, 9/29 Phoenix, AZ Ashley Furniture HomeStore Pavilion ****
Sunday, 9/30 Albuquerque, NM Hard Rock Casino Presents: The Pavilion ****

*Thousand Foot Krutch will not be performing at this show
**Fozzy and Thousand Foot Krutch will not be performing at this show
***In This Moment will not be performing at this show
****In This Moment and Thousand Foot Krutch will not be performing at this show
*****Fozzy, Redlight King and In This Moment will not be performing at this s

 

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