TROY STETINA
SECOND SOUL "Beyond Infinite"
Troy Stetina - guitar
Scott Yanke - vocal
Ed Szczepanski - drums
Ryan Loehe - guitar
Chad Novell - bass
Second Soul is modern hard rock featuring worldrenown
guitarist and music educator Troy Stetina. Troy’s
rock and metal guitar methods have sold over 1 million
copies to an army of guitar fans worldwide. He has been
private guitar coach to Mark Tremonti (Alter Bridge/
Creed), who also plays on the new Second Soul record.
Second Soul’s new album Beyond the Infinite features 15 tracks and includes a guitar solo spot by Mark Tremonti (Alter Bridge/Creed) on “Burn” (track 6). Fans of aggressive hard rock guitar will not be disappointed
Scott Yanke - vocal
Ed Szczepanski - drums
Ryan Loehe - guitar
Chad Novell - bass
Second Soul is modern hard rock featuring worldrenown
guitarist and music educator Troy Stetina. Troy’s
rock and metal guitar methods have sold over 1 million
copies to an army of guitar fans worldwide. He has been
private guitar coach to Mark Tremonti (Alter Bridge/
Creed), who also plays on the new Second Soul record.
Second Soul’s new album Beyond the Infinite features 15 tracks and includes a guitar solo spot by Mark Tremonti (Alter Bridge/Creed) on “Burn” (track 6). Fans of aggressive hard rock guitar will not be disappointed
MY TRACK BY TRACK
Intro , well 15 tracks to walk you guys through, I'm ready to rock .
I didnt know what to expect from a legend like Troy's debut band album , the solo album is out and rocks hard , so theres going to be some cool stuff goin on.
Opened up the CD and YEAH!!
Quality , nice material, spare no expense and the inlay is a booty , got lyrics great art, "pops CD into player and turns up freakin LOUD
Track 1 FLIGHT ,
Absolute crowd pleaser, uplifting coolness for those Troy Stetina fans I am not giving it away but its called flight and its fast , cheeky studio chat at the end "gotta speed that up" lol nice
Track 2 SHOCKWAVE
Rocking good stuff , smooth doom to the world track , got hard rock stamped from the start to finish and awesome mixes great solo (of coarse) ....
Track 3 MORE LIFE
This has reminiscent of some great grunge-squ melododic vocals with that great feel of pearl jam kinda Seatle stuff and metal hard rock guitar , solo is Nuno Bettencourt vibed and fast ...
Track 4 SHINE DOWN
I love this track and the songs have soul and metal a great positive message in this track , , but they don't go into the growling metal but balance of the crossroads of genres with metal and rock and melodic rock .
This has a Vai and Gilbert vibe to the solo , I have to compare and you guys may have lived under a rock and not know how amazing Troy Stetina is so I'll compare on.
Track 5 MY REALITY
Nice , moody and building up to an ecstatic build and creshendo of metal but not in a hurry , riff melting verses , much darker and 80 metal solo tricks , I love this one ...theres alot in this track before even the main solo hits you in the balls , great sound too , on all these tracks solo 3 melodic meolodies and other m words like , marvel and the majestic mayhem ;) I thought my CD player was stuck at the end hehe , cool effect guys ;).
Track 6 BURN
This starts off with open voiced floating vibe and progresses into the songs full on belt , this is very much a MTV metal channel Scuzz kind of track , as pro sounding and any I've heard, the solo' as in all the tracks have a great full sound and very modern unique tricks that will have guitarists scratching their heads or muso's banging their heads to this tune
Track 7 DEEP END
Up to track 7 the album has a sonic consistency and story of redemption and falling out of grace and the need of others , I love the whole image of second soul . Great modulation at the end of this gives it new life , all round awesome track.
Track 8 DECIEVER
A dark track , middle eastern intro vocals and haunting , the guitars are just so very cool , this one will have you tapping your foot banging your head . I really like the laid back tempo this has , loads of awesome fills and back mixed guitar shred ..main solo is a sweet as honey other h words , harmonised and heavy hum-able and hot .
Track 9 STILL PHOTO DAY ,
Love song and a sad song , Great track and great full wall of guitar vibe , emotional stadium rock vibe.
Track 10 GOODBYE
Smashing tapping intro , sweet intro and moody , love lost bitter heart , new start , angry track and those great rhythms troy is well known for come in handy , mixing tempo's and dynamics , great live albums are and Troy shines through on every track proving the "the guitar solo will live forever" .
Track 11 BEAUTIFULL
Love song , southern vibe , a little touch of bon jovi vibe , must be the 12 string/sitar thing in the intro , after the heaviness this is a breath of fresh air leading into very uplifting chorus's and meaningful soloing .
Track 12 IN PIECES ,
Loaded with heaviness this one has some neat studio tricks and Armageddon approaches , this will probably be the theme song .
Solo, also cool tricks with a little FX magic , but live as I know the gear used , a nice whammy pedal always helps the song goes into a very cool mode of eastern flavour and resumes coolness gets even cooler with more eastern trippy stuff till it ends on a great fade down to guitar 1.
track 13/14 BEYOND MIND_INVINCIBLE ,
Guessing beyong mind is the soul , and second soul ...very deep and this tracks tuning is just that deep atmospheric and spooky as hell. I think this has my favourite star just for the intro alone ...after that it gets riffs and riffs and builds to greatness .....solo is pure magic but before that section theres asome reall amazing drumming on this track as well , the lead parts rip your head off and dumps in the hole.
The intro was track 13 and song connects to 14 so Ive written them as one .
track 13 see above
Track 15 BETTER DAYS
This is the best track to end the album on as its so uplifting positive and after some of those darker tracks it shines through and with the sleeve lyrics you'll see that indeed it does give a positive message , better days runnin . Great guitar great song .
SUMMERY
well I took the whole journey from track 1 to 15 in one go and its a mighty album indeed , well worth the wait as it had been tweak and re-tweaked to troys perfectionistic taste and a great job he did indeed , Troy , Scott Yanke and Eddie Szeczepanki to be exact and mastered by Ted Jensen (sterling Sound).
I mentioned consistency in the sound , the guitar tone and all round concept has a consistency , this is a sign of great live and production work plus thoughtful and well planned pre-recording meetings. This live feel of the album is very good and they thing that makes it stand out the most is not just Troys awesome lead guitar skills but the songs are very musician and non-muscian friendly , broad is the spectrum of people who will get alot for their money with this 15 song album.
Mark Tremonti features alot in the album with Troy and Art concept was designed bt Daniel Tremonti .
10/10
I didnt know what to expect from a legend like Troy's debut band album , the solo album is out and rocks hard , so theres going to be some cool stuff goin on.
Opened up the CD and YEAH!!
Quality , nice material, spare no expense and the inlay is a booty , got lyrics great art, "pops CD into player and turns up freakin LOUD
Track 1 FLIGHT ,
Absolute crowd pleaser, uplifting coolness for those Troy Stetina fans I am not giving it away but its called flight and its fast , cheeky studio chat at the end "gotta speed that up" lol nice
Track 2 SHOCKWAVE
Rocking good stuff , smooth doom to the world track , got hard rock stamped from the start to finish and awesome mixes great solo (of coarse) ....
Track 3 MORE LIFE
This has reminiscent of some great grunge-squ melododic vocals with that great feel of pearl jam kinda Seatle stuff and metal hard rock guitar , solo is Nuno Bettencourt vibed and fast ...
Track 4 SHINE DOWN
I love this track and the songs have soul and metal a great positive message in this track , , but they don't go into the growling metal but balance of the crossroads of genres with metal and rock and melodic rock .
This has a Vai and Gilbert vibe to the solo , I have to compare and you guys may have lived under a rock and not know how amazing Troy Stetina is so I'll compare on.
Track 5 MY REALITY
Nice , moody and building up to an ecstatic build and creshendo of metal but not in a hurry , riff melting verses , much darker and 80 metal solo tricks , I love this one ...theres alot in this track before even the main solo hits you in the balls , great sound too , on all these tracks solo 3 melodic meolodies and other m words like , marvel and the majestic mayhem ;) I thought my CD player was stuck at the end hehe , cool effect guys ;).
Track 6 BURN
This starts off with open voiced floating vibe and progresses into the songs full on belt , this is very much a MTV metal channel Scuzz kind of track , as pro sounding and any I've heard, the solo' as in all the tracks have a great full sound and very modern unique tricks that will have guitarists scratching their heads or muso's banging their heads to this tune
Track 7 DEEP END
Up to track 7 the album has a sonic consistency and story of redemption and falling out of grace and the need of others , I love the whole image of second soul . Great modulation at the end of this gives it new life , all round awesome track.
Track 8 DECIEVER
A dark track , middle eastern intro vocals and haunting , the guitars are just so very cool , this one will have you tapping your foot banging your head . I really like the laid back tempo this has , loads of awesome fills and back mixed guitar shred ..main solo is a sweet as honey other h words , harmonised and heavy hum-able and hot .
Track 9 STILL PHOTO DAY ,
Love song and a sad song , Great track and great full wall of guitar vibe , emotional stadium rock vibe.
Track 10 GOODBYE
Smashing tapping intro , sweet intro and moody , love lost bitter heart , new start , angry track and those great rhythms troy is well known for come in handy , mixing tempo's and dynamics , great live albums are and Troy shines through on every track proving the "the guitar solo will live forever" .
Track 11 BEAUTIFULL
Love song , southern vibe , a little touch of bon jovi vibe , must be the 12 string/sitar thing in the intro , after the heaviness this is a breath of fresh air leading into very uplifting chorus's and meaningful soloing .
Track 12 IN PIECES ,
Loaded with heaviness this one has some neat studio tricks and Armageddon approaches , this will probably be the theme song .
Solo, also cool tricks with a little FX magic , but live as I know the gear used , a nice whammy pedal always helps the song goes into a very cool mode of eastern flavour and resumes coolness gets even cooler with more eastern trippy stuff till it ends on a great fade down to guitar 1.
track 13/14 BEYOND MIND_INVINCIBLE ,
Guessing beyong mind is the soul , and second soul ...very deep and this tracks tuning is just that deep atmospheric and spooky as hell. I think this has my favourite star just for the intro alone ...after that it gets riffs and riffs and builds to greatness .....solo is pure magic but before that section theres asome reall amazing drumming on this track as well , the lead parts rip your head off and dumps in the hole.
The intro was track 13 and song connects to 14 so Ive written them as one .
track 13 see above
Track 15 BETTER DAYS
This is the best track to end the album on as its so uplifting positive and after some of those darker tracks it shines through and with the sleeve lyrics you'll see that indeed it does give a positive message , better days runnin . Great guitar great song .
SUMMERY
well I took the whole journey from track 1 to 15 in one go and its a mighty album indeed , well worth the wait as it had been tweak and re-tweaked to troys perfectionistic taste and a great job he did indeed , Troy , Scott Yanke and Eddie Szeczepanki to be exact and mastered by Ted Jensen (sterling Sound).
I mentioned consistency in the sound , the guitar tone and all round concept has a consistency , this is a sign of great live and production work plus thoughtful and well planned pre-recording meetings. This live feel of the album is very good and they thing that makes it stand out the most is not just Troys awesome lead guitar skills but the songs are very musician and non-muscian friendly , broad is the spectrum of people who will get alot for their money with this 15 song album.
Mark Tremonti features alot in the album with Troy and Art concept was designed bt Daniel Tremonti .
10/10