Death Metal Acoustic Guitars

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Instrumental guitar music isn’t exactly a music genre that screams “Buy me! Buy me!” to all and sundry. You don’t really expect to find the Gypsy Kings playlisted on 5fm. But then, you also don’t expect to find Rodrigo y Gabriela‘s foot-tappingly persuasive blend of Spanish guitar rhythms.
As LA Weekly remarked recently, one hesitates to call Rodrigo y Gabriela acoustic guitarists, “because the term implies feathery noodling, folkie narcissism and/or New Age muzak making”. The truth is, these guys rock — hard — and their guitars may be acoustic but you know all about it. They met up while playing for Tierra Acida, a death-metal band from Mexico City, in the 1990s.
So when the Mexican guitar-busking duo hit the big time, the record company probably thought they would sell a couple of hundred thousand CDs at most. Instead, they’re taking over the world.

Here is a video of Rodrigo y Gabriela playing Orion by Metallica: