LOVEBITES: "It’s easier to develop lead guitar techniques if you have a good sense of rhythm"

LOVEBITES
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Having written and released three studio albums, two EPs and one live album since their formation in 2016, Japanese power metal quintet LOVEBITES have never found themselves running short of ideas. On latest single HOLY WAR, they sound as urgent as ever, merging thrashy guitars with symphonic grandeur in a way that exudes irrefutable confidence and effortless mastery. 

That notion of thunderous sophistication is one that reoccurs throughout the 70 glorious minutes of third full-length Electric Pentagram, released earlier in January. You could say it’s their forte...

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Amit Sharma

Amit has been writing for titles like Total GuitarMusicRadar and Guitar World for over a decade and counts Richie Kotzen, Guthrie Govan and Jeff Beck among his primary influences as a guitar player. He's worked for magazines like Kerrang!Metal HammerClassic RockProgRecord CollectorPlanet RockRhythm and Bass Player, as well as newspapers like Metro and The Independent, interviewing everyone from Ozzy Osbourne and Lemmy to Slash and Jimmy Page, and once even traded solos with a member of Slayer on a track released internationally. As a session guitarist, he's played alongside members of Judas Priest and Uriah Heep in London ensemble Metalworks, as well as handled lead guitars for legends like Glen Matlock (Sex Pistols, The Faces) and Stu Hamm (Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, G3).