Gian Pyres
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Gian Pyres is a British
guitarist
, best known for his work with extreme metal
band Cradle of Filth
for which he co-wrote and recorded guitars for Dusk And Her Embrace
(1996), Cruelty and the Beast
(1998), Midian
(2000), Bitter Suites to Succubi
(2001) and Lovecraft & Witch Hearts
(2002). He appeared on their DVD
s Heavy, Left-Handed and Candid
(2001), Live Bait for the Dead
(2001) and Peace Through Superior Firepower
(2005) and appeared in Alex Chandon
's Cradle of Fear
(2001). In addition he has appeared in music videos for From the Cradle to Enslave
(1999), Her Ghost in the Fog (2000), Born in a Burial Gown (2001) and Scorched Earth Erotica (2002). He also appeared with Cradle of Filth
on BBC
's Living with the Enemy (1998).
Other live and recording appearances include Ship of Fools
, Solstice
Lamentations
EP (1994) and Halcyon (1995), and Dragonlord
as touring guitarist (2005-6). He also recorded as a guest guitarist for Bal Sagoth on A Black Moon Broods Over Lemuria
(1995), Christian Death
on Born Again Anti-Christian (2000), Extreme Noise Terror
on Being and Nothing
(2001) and Italian
symphonic black metal band Theatres des Vampires
on Vampyrìsme
(2003). He played for The Rotted
(formerly known as Gorerotted
) until November 2009, co-wrote and recorded Get Dead Or Die Trying (2008) and featured on the video Nothing But A Nosebleed. He is currently a member of Screamin' Daemon, appearing on the yet un-released album Wrath of the Genocide Gods; is playing live guitar for the American extreme metal group Saetith and is the touring guitarist with former Cradle of Filth
bandmate Sarah Jezebel Diva's solo band.
He is endorsed by PRS Guitars
and Peavey
.
Gian Piras has also worked for game developer The Creative Assembly/SEGA
, in Sussex, England on Rome: Total War
, Rome Total War: Barbarian Invasion and Medieval 2: Total War
. He also represented The Creative Assembly as a games technician on BBC2's Time Commanders
.
British people
The British are citizens of the United Kingdom, of the Isle of Man, any of the Channel Islands, or of any of the British overseas territories, and their descendants...
guitarist
Guitarist
A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar while singing.- Versatility :The guitarist controls an extremely...
, best known for his work with extreme metal
Extreme metal
Extreme metal is a loosely defined umbrella term for a number of related heavy metal music subgenres that have developed since the early 1980s. The term usually refers to a more abrasive, harsher, underground, non-commercialized style or sound nearly always associated with genres like black metal,...
band Cradle of Filth
Cradle of Filth
Cradle of Filth are an English extreme metal band, formed in Suffolk in 1991. The band's musical style evolved from black metal to a cleaner and more "produced" amalgam of gothic metal, symphonic black metal, and other extreme metal styles, while their lyrical themes and imagery are heavily...
for which he co-wrote and recorded guitars for Dusk And Her Embrace
Dusk and Her Embrace
Dusk... and Her Embrace is Cradle of Filth's second full-length album, and their first for the label Music for Nations. The overall production on this album is similar to their other 1996 release V Empire, being more refined than on The Principle of Evil Made Flesh and the symphonic elements are...
(1996), Cruelty and the Beast
Cruelty and the Beast
Cruelty and the Beast is the third studio album by English extreme metal band Cradle of Filth. It is a concept album based on the legend of the Hungarian "blood countess" Elizabeth Báthory...
(1998), Midian
Midian
Midian , Madyan , or Madiam is a geographical place and a people mentioned in the Bible and in the Qur'an. It is believed to be in northwest Saudi Arabia on the east shore of the Gulf of Aqaba and the northern Red Sea...
(2000), Bitter Suites to Succubi
Bitter Suites to Succubi
Cradle of Filth's Bitter Suites to Succubi is essentially an EP—or "transitional mini album" as the band's singer Dani Filth would have it; bridging the gap between Midian and Damnation and a Day while the band negotiated their label change from Music for Nations to Sony...
(2001) and Lovecraft & Witch Hearts
Lovecraft & Witch Hearts
Lovecraft & Witch Hearts is a compilation album by Cradle of Filth. It is described in Dani Filth's sleeve notes as "a favoured grimoire of tracks coupled with the rare and unreleased, rather a 'mess of' than a 'best of'..." It was one of two releases in 2002 and was designed to round off Cradle...
(2002). He appeared on their DVD
DVD
A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....
s Heavy, Left-Handed and Candid
Heavy, Left-Handed and Candid
Heavy, Left-Handed and Candid is a DVD release by Cradle of Filth, from the 2001 Midian Tour. Eleven Burial Masses was filmed at Nottingham Rock City on April 14, 2001. The live album Live Bait for the Dead contains the same concert. The later release Eleven Burial Masses contains both the CD and...
(2001), Live Bait for the Dead
Live Bait for the Dead
Live Bait for the Dead is a live album by Cradle of Filth, recorded at Nottingham Rock City on April 14, 2001. The same gig is included on the DVD Heavy, Left-Handed and Candid. Following the same format as Lovecraft & Witch Hearts, the main album is supplemented by a second disc of rare tracks and...
(2001) and Peace Through Superior Firepower
Peace Through Superior Firepower
Peace Through Superior Firepower is a DVD by Cradle of Filth released in 2005 through Roadrunner Records. It contains a full concert filmed on 2 April 2005 at Elysée Montmartre, Paris. It also contains six music videos and extra features including footage of a signing session and a...
(2005) and appeared in Alex Chandon
Alex Chandon
Alexis Chandon is a film director, writer and digital artist.-Directing career:His early films, Drillbit and Bad Karma featured many musicians from the UK anarcho punk scene, notably Ben Bethell, Dan MacCintyre, William 'Bill' Corbett and Julian Portinari from, The Apostles and Pallor,...
's Cradle of Fear
Cradle of Fear
Cradle of Fear is a 2001 horror film directed by Alex Chandon. Taking inspiration from the portmanteau films produced by Amicus in the 1970s it features three separate half-hour segments, linked by a fourth story. The main narrative involves imprisoned serial-killer Kemper wreaking vengeance on...
(2001). In addition he has appeared in music videos for From the Cradle to Enslave
From the Cradle to Enslave
From the Cradle to Enslave is an EP by Cradle of Filth. It contains two original tracks; the title track and "Of Dark Blood and Fucking". The rest of the disc consists of two cover versions and a re-recording of a track from the album Dusk... and Her Embrace...
(1999), Her Ghost in the Fog (2000), Born in a Burial Gown (2001) and Scorched Earth Erotica (2002). He also appeared with Cradle of Filth
Cradle of Filth
Cradle of Filth are an English extreme metal band, formed in Suffolk in 1991. The band's musical style evolved from black metal to a cleaner and more "produced" amalgam of gothic metal, symphonic black metal, and other extreme metal styles, while their lyrical themes and imagery are heavily...
on BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
's Living with the Enemy (1998).
Other live and recording appearances include Ship of Fools
Ship of Fools
The ship of fools is an allegory that has long been a fixture in Western literature and art. The allegory depicts a vessel populated by human inhabitants who are deranged, frivolous, or oblivious, passengers aboard a ship without a pilot, and seemingly ignorant of their own direction...
, Solstice
Solstice (UK band)
Solstice is an epic doom metal band from England, founded by Rich Walker after the breaking up of his previous hardcore punk / grindcore bands Sore Throat and Warfear...
Lamentations
Lamentations (album)
Lamentations is the debut album of the United Kingdom doom metal band Solstice. Originally released in 1994 through Candlelight Records, the album was re-released in 2006 as a double-LP edition of 400 red vinyl copies and 100 copies of black vinyl with a beer bag.-Track listing:# "Lamentations IV"...
EP (1994) and Halcyon (1995), and Dragonlord
Dragonlord (band)
Dragonlord is an American symphonic black metal band that was formed in 2001 as a side project by Eric Peterson & Steve DiGiorgio of Testament, and Steve Smyth of Nevermore. The band is a result of Eric Peterson's interest in darker music, and not being able to do that with Testament he formed...
as touring guitarist (2005-6). He also recorded as a guest guitarist for Bal Sagoth on A Black Moon Broods Over Lemuria
A Black Moon Broods over Lemuria
A Black Moon Broods over Lemuria, is Bal-Sagoth's 1995 debut album after their 1993 demo. The album was recorded in a two week period in June 1994, but due to label problems the album was released almost a year later...
(1995), Christian Death
Christian Death
Christian Death is an American deathrock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1979. The band was founded and fronted by Rozz Williams. Christian Death is most notable for their first album Only Theatre of Pain....
on Born Again Anti-Christian (2000), Extreme Noise Terror
Extreme Noise Terror
Extreme Noise Terror are a British crust punk / grindcore band originally formed in Ipswich, England in 1985. The band are widely considered one of the earliest and most influential European grindcore bands, and particularly the forefathers of the crustgrind subgenre.Notable for one of the...
on Being and Nothing
Being and Nothing
Being and Nothing is an album by Extreme Noise Terror. It was released in 2001 by Candlelight Records.-Track listing:*All Songs Written By Adam Catchpole, Dean Jones & Zac O'Neil, except where noted.# "Being and Nothing" – 2:08...
(2001) and Italian
Italy
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symphonic black metal band Theatres des Vampires
Theatres des Vampires
Theatres des Vampires is an Italian gothic metal band with strong black metal influences, mostly noted for the predominant theme of vampirism within their lyrics.-History and background:In 1994, Alessandro Nunziati form Theatres des Vampires....
on Vampyrìsme
Vampyrìsme
Vampyrìsme... is the fifth studio album by Theatres des Vampires and a remake of their first album Vampyrìsme, Nècrophilie, Nècrosadisme, Nècrophagie...
(2003). He played for The Rotted
The Rotted
-History:The band was formed from the ashes of death metal / grindcore ensemble Gorerotted by ex-members Ben McCrow, Tim Carley, and Phil Wilson, along with Gian Pyres and Nate Gould due to a musical progression and a desire for less limiting lyrical themes: the band themselves say that The...
(formerly known as Gorerotted
Gorerotted
Gorerotted was a British death metal band formed in 1997 which split up in January 2008 and reformed with new members as The Rotted. Gorerotted's lyrics and song titles were largely inspired by horror films, and dealt with subjects such as death, mutilation, necrophilia, and later alcohol and drug...
) until November 2009, co-wrote and recorded Get Dead Or Die Trying (2008) and featured on the video Nothing But A Nosebleed. He is currently a member of Screamin' Daemon, appearing on the yet un-released album Wrath of the Genocide Gods; is playing live guitar for the American extreme metal group Saetith and is the touring guitarist with former Cradle of Filth
Cradle of Filth
Cradle of Filth are an English extreme metal band, formed in Suffolk in 1991. The band's musical style evolved from black metal to a cleaner and more "produced" amalgam of gothic metal, symphonic black metal, and other extreme metal styles, while their lyrical themes and imagery are heavily...
bandmate Sarah Jezebel Diva's solo band.
He is endorsed by PRS Guitars
PRS Guitars
PRS Guitars is an American guitar manufacturer headquartered in Stevensville, Maryland. PRS Guitars was founded by guitarist and luthier Paul Reed Smith in 1985. The company is one of the leading manufacturers of high-end electric guitars.-Materials:...
and Peavey
Peavey Electronics
Peavey Electronics Corporation is one of the largest audio equipment manufacturers in the world, headquartered in Meridian, Mississippi in the United States.- History :...
.
Gian Piras has also worked for game developer The Creative Assembly/SEGA
Sega
, usually styled as SEGA, is a multinational video game software developer and an arcade software and hardware development company headquartered in Ōta, Tokyo, Japan, with various offices around the world...
, in Sussex, England on Rome: Total War
Rome: Total War
Rome: Total War is a PC strategy game developed by The Creative Assembly and released on by Activision...
, Rome Total War: Barbarian Invasion and Medieval 2: Total War
Medieval 2: Total War
Medieval II: Total War, the indirect sequel to 2002's Medieval: Total War and the fourth game in the Total War series from The Creative Assembly, is a game of turn-based strategic rounds and real-time tactically-oriented battles. The game is set between the years 1080 and 1530...
. He also represented The Creative Assembly as a games technician on BBC2's Time Commanders
Time Commanders
Time Commanders was a series of programmes made by Lion TV and PlayGen for BBC Two that ran for two seasons from 2003 to 2005. The programmes, originally hosted by Eddie Mair and more recently by Richard Hammond, featured a specially made game engine to reenact historical battles. A team of four...
.
Equipment
- PRS GuitarsPRS GuitarsPRS Guitars is an American guitar manufacturer headquartered in Stevensville, Maryland. PRS Guitars was founded by guitarist and luthier Paul Reed Smith in 1985. The company is one of the leading manufacturers of high-end electric guitars.-Materials:...
– Private Stock Custom Pyres Edition - Gibson Guitars – Standard SGGibson SGAt the launch of the SG in 1961, Gibson offered four variants of the SG; the SG Junior , the SG Special, the SG Standard, and the top-of-the-line SG Custom. However, Gibson's current core variants as of 2010 are the SG Standard and the SG Special...
- PeaveyPeavey ElectronicsPeavey Electronics Corporation is one of the largest audio equipment manufacturers in the world, headquartered in Meridian, Mississippi in the United States.- History :...
Amps – 6505 - PeaveyPeavey ElectronicsPeavey Electronics Corporation is one of the largest audio equipment manufacturers in the world, headquartered in Meridian, Mississippi in the United States.- History :...
or MarshallMarshall AmplificationMarshall Amplification is a British company, founded by drummer Jim Marshall, that designs and manufactures music amplifiers, brands personal headphones/earphones , and, after acquiring Natal Drums, drums and bongos. Marshall amplifiers, and specifically their guitar amplifiers, are among the most...
cabinets - Effects by BOSSBoss CorporationBoss is a manufacturer of effects pedals for electric guitar and bass guitar. It is a division of the Roland Corporation, a Japanese manufacturer that specializes in musical equipment and accessories...
and Line 6