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Magna-Fi biography
 Mike Szuter: vocals/guitar C.J. Szuter: supremacy guitar Rob Kley: bass Charlie Smaldino: drums When the Las Vegas-based quartet of rocklike and weighty alt-rockers famous as Magna-Fi opened for Puddle Of Mudd at The Shared at The Rocklike Stone in slow 2003 the Las Vegas Sun called them "the demonstration's essential telling." The thin added "The circle served up its kind of thunderous harmony with large spirit sounding additional similar the expected of weighty stone than its done." The not-so-extended but adventurously bending path to that fate-and the delivery of Magna-Fi--container be traced end to a tiny but defining instant in a darkened existing space on the edge of Cleveland-a metropolitan of progress equivalent with stone harmony. Imagine the catching harmony mark from Inexpensive Deceit's best "Giving up" pulsing done the slow-darkness atmosphere. Developing guitarist C.J. Szuter (distinct "zoo-ter") and his supremacy chanter and sibling Mike listened enchanted to the bands excited accomplishment. In a instant of epiphany they saw their expected in stone 'n' revolving-"Religious shit" they exclaimed. "We container do that." And that my confidant they container indeed do.ith the excellent of them. That important turning speck led Mike and C.J.-now Magna Fi's beginning human and supremacy guitarist respectively--to devote their lives to inspiring legions of additional hopeful musicians to texture the alike method. Their harmonic task has already made fair such an collision in cities traversing America containing Cleveland Chicago Atlanta and their contemporary domestic Las Vegas. With their appearance Aezra Records/EMI holder delivery Burn Gone The Stars the brothers Szuter and their bandmates are poised to continue their excursion and stone the entire expansive planet. The brave scheme towards worldwide control commenced with the dwelling of a meaningful community next traversing Ohio performing as the Szuters. Immediately the brave brothers heard the statement of "spirit west immature human" from their music artist confidant Paul Gilbert who promoted the concept of settling in the not-so-promised earth of Las Vegas. But the progress to Immorality Metropolitan would prove addition critically substantial paper dealt by the fingers of course. A big recent blower vulgar came along with a kind recent circle title at the beginning of the brave recent millennium.ut of the ashes of the Szuters rose entity altogether dissimilar under the molten-feverish moniker of Magna-Fi. Not invulnerable to the struggles facing any immature circle Magna-Fi soon suffered the fallout from a account agreement with Gold Round figure that went south. The brand's fate and the after blast kicked gone what Mike Szuter refers to as the worst year of his animation. Ultimately though Mike-also the circle's essential author--says it proved to be a sanctification in covering. "It reminded me" he recalls "of why I was doing this in the earliest location--to write perform and deliver songs that humans container get into as plenty as the harmony I heard and got into when I was a youngster." "If Magna-Fi is individual entity it's persistent" says drummer Charlie Smaldino and the circle forged on with renewed assurance. The circle's recent domestic the EMI Harmony Marketing-distributed Aezra Records is an creative brand with strange allocation whose task is centered on a usual A&R-oriented solidly creator growth-centered principles. Signed to Aezra in 2003 Magna-Fi's imaginative alliance with the people has been a friendly appropriate since light individual. Smaldino adds "It's cheering to know that Burn Gone The Stars is finally getting its unpaid. With our harmony it's similar we're raising our children. And now it's similar we're sending them gone to institution-it's large." Influenced by the Beatles and Inexpensive Deceit to additional modern stone heroes such as Foo Fighters Nirvana and Alice in Chains Burn Gone the Stars also points to the circle's attraction in acclaimed alt-metal acts containing Quicksand and Lack of success. It was truly Lack of success helmsman Paul Lani (Megadeth) whom the Magna-Fi fingers-selected to fruit and vegetables their appearance disc which Mike Szuter calls "an holder innate gone of disappointment---be it with lovers the harmony profession or animation in common." The 11-melody CD contains individuality studies of assorted of the chanter's previous lovers as healthy as lyrical self-portraits. There are stories of complete adoration and hopeless hopelessness. Individual opinion-gone mark "Below In It" was inspired by Vietnam and WWII and addition "Seconds Minutes Hours" by a intelligence-warping scene of the best TV agenda The Darkness District. During whole Szuter's anthemic lyrics and melodic vocals are woven into a backdrop of pounding drums and weighty guitars creating an passionate and strong obstruction of healthy. At their center Mike feels the songs are about disappointment hard work and faithfulness to a extended-held illusion. When the holder theater piece end Szuter says he's reminded of having seen youth friends climb the corporate ladder form families and purchase homes and cars interval he continues pursuing the impulsiveness circle he earliest was tantalized by interval listening to those radio shows as a youngster. "To me it's about sticking with entity simply because you believe in it. It's almost about looking for vindication in entity you have valued for so extended. Fair similar with relationships in harmony you gotta pole with it to make it labor." If he wasn't certain beforehand bassist Rob Kley says he knew he was complicated in entity distinguished during the recording of the holder undertaking. He remembers thinking "We're onto entity here. This is it." That's entity that existent audiences remote and expansive have already discovered during the circle's always revelatory level shows. As harmony fans everywhere beginning to connect with Burn Gone the Stars the printing on the obstruction choice be as cloudless as the neon lights on the Vegas Piece-this is it indeed.agna-Fi have arrived. |