★★★★★
What ever happened to Marty Friedman leaving metal behind him? Wasn't there a time following where Dave Mustaine said, "Hey, we need to get back to basics and make something heavy," and Marty's only reply was "Nah, I'd rather go make pop music in Japan?" In the years that have followed, metal has more than caught up with one of the genre's quietest forerunners...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2014-05-29
★★★★★
Sound: It's significantly challenging for a talented guitarist to step away from one of the most readily known names in heavy metal and attempt to forge a successful career as a solo artist. Marty Friedman has been attempting to achieve this same feat after leaving Megadeth during the new millenium. Friedman had previously forged a strong name for himself for helping construct such studio efforts as "Rust in Peace" and "Countdown to Extinction," before ultimately leaving the band due to...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2014-06-15
★★★★★
Sammi Chichester | May 23, 2014 | Comments 0 | Tags: Marty Friedman After longtime Megadeth guitarist Marty Friedman quit the band in 2000, he moved to Japan, became a TV celebrity, and released many eclectic solo albums. His latest, Inferno, is his most back-to-basics offering, packed with trenchant, off-kilter melodic thrash riffs and virtuosic solos...
- www.revolvermag.com
2014-05-24
★★★★★
Sound: Ok so this maybe on of my duller reviews but I still give credit where its due. Marty Friedman's latest solo album "Tokyo Jukebox 2" is a very pepped up super charged album and suitably named cause you can sense the Japanese culture seeping out of it, at times I felt like I was stuck in those Japanese video games back from the Sega Dreamcast days...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
Sound: Marty Friedman has been around since what I believe to be '86. In these past tewenty one years that Marty has been in the "metal spotlight" he has brought guitar playing to a new level. Even on his latest release "Loudspeaker" Friedman continues to impress. Two words to describe this album are "Spastic and beautiful". In the opening track "Elixir" the music comes fast and heavy. Honestly I haven't heard Friedman with this much energy since "Dragon Kiss"...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2009-11-15
★★★★★
Sound: I remember when I first listened to this album it meant absolutely nothing to me and I ventured more into his shred music in newer albums. But coming back to it later made me realise the beauty of his music here. Marty Friedman uses a variety of guitar tones on almost all his albums, heavy distortion to a soothing, clean sound emits in his pieces and this variety of tone is really shown on this album...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2009-11-15
★★★★★
Sound: The sound on this album is amazing, from the extreme shred sounds to the slow acoutic guitars, this album is amazing. The sound is clear and the ammount of solo/rhythm guitar has been perfectly matched to create this masterpiece. I can't give this a 10/10 because some of the songs have too many effects and it sounds bad and gets boring after the second time listening to it...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2009-11-15
★★★★★
Cacophony guitarist Marty Friedman unleashes his virtuosic six-string fury on the excellent Dragon's Kiss, which may be the most definitive sampling of Friedman's talents available. Spiking his supersaturated heavy metal sensibilities with texture, imagination, and a flair for the exotic, Friedman proves to be a distinctive modern metal soloist...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
The second release from guitarist Marty Friedman revealed a level of depth and maturity that equally surprised Megadeth and guitar-shred fans everywhere. While his 1988 debut Dragon's Kiss eluded to some of what is heard here, it was essentially just another shred fest. The Eastern influence, which Friedman so embraces, is authenticated here by the excellent production of Kitaro and the dreamy contributions of Kitaro keyboardist Brian BecVar...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
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