You Asked For MORE Andy James! This One Will BLOW YOU AWAY! Forsaken 

yeah it's tasty as anything

*a paycheck

He’s miming to the audio, sometimes he makes mistakes ;)

there are a couple of points where his video doesn't match the audio. Knowing Andy like I do, he'll have recorded this, and then 6+ months later had to make the playthrough video where he has to relearn it, but mistakes happen! I *know* (like I'm pretending I know it better than Andy haha) he played it on the B string because all the pull-offs are to an open B! But I did spot it while I was doing it!

@@LeviClay thanks for clarifying, it just caught my attention and I thought I'd ask.

He did say he'd have me do it, but it hasn't happened yet, so I can't really say. I think he's just not all that fussed as FFDP pays pretty good.... but keep asking him on Instagram

@@LeviClay That's what I was thinking. Thanks for the reply!

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How odd… five finger death punch guitarist sounds like five finger death punch 🤷

absolute hack

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No, he did his time. He's made 9 albums so far and has been broke his ENTIRE career of shredding. He deserves to be a millionaire and play for people in stadiums, in one of the largest bands in the world. The fact that he is still putting melodic shred music out for us is above and beyond

He deserves to be in a successful band.. He put in the work. I dont’ care for 5FDP music at all just like I don’t like Arch Enemy but it’s the same with Jeff Loomis. Are his talents being utilized fully in the band? No but who cares, he still has an outlet to put out solo shred music. The bands these guys play in are a decent paycheck and a way to make a living so it doesn’t matter if you think the bands they play in suck ass.

@pizzaisgood4877 Fair point. On the Loomis side of things, how much better would he make Arch Enemy with some thrashy, Nevermore goodness?

@@nicholassupernant6807 Well he could spice it up with more technical guitar riffs and shred solos but then it wouldn’t be the same band and likely wouldn’t be as successful. I hate Arch Enemy’s music (not the people in the band, the music). Look at the fans of Arch Enemy. They are a more commercially successful band than Nevermore was. Nevermore would never have had the success of Arch Enemy not because the music is not good because your average and vast majority of the listeners and fans are NOT musicians. They don’t give a shit nor even notice if the guitar player is playing a wicked sweep or difficult technical prog metal riff. They are all about the easy to follow predictable song structures and melodies. You can’t be successful unless you are Dream Theater playing that kind of shit. It’s cool, I’d rather listen to AJ or JL solo albums or Nevermore any day of the week over 5FDP or AE but the guys gotta make a living and some people calling them sellouts are full of shit. And don’t worry, I’m not accusing you of saying that, I get where you are coming from.

Rusty Cooley 😂 different ballparks. If you find him more interesting musically than Andy give your head a wobble. There's no telling where Rusty's warm up routine stops and his songs start.

Can't you just enjoy stuff without comparing anyone? Hearing different artists' styles, intentions and expressions is more interesting than technical skill and virtuosity. I think you're missing the purpose and endeavor of music.

Rusty Cooley is like an ice pick to the ears -- which explains your opinion.

Butthurt galore. I wasn't saying Andy James sucks, just said this bit wasn't to my liking.