Bio

BIOGRAPHY-Michael Lee Ostrander's One-Man Shred Machine Location-Albuquerque,New Mexico Style-Shred Metal-Instrumental Guitar Music Endorsed by Dean guitars,DiMarzio pickups and Dava picks Michael is signed to Mysteria Records,based in Albuquerque and is an Instrumental Guitarist with 25 years of Metal/Rock Band,Studio and Live Performance experience and is making headway in the industry with 3 endorsements from major musical companies,Dean,DiMarzio and Dava picks,as well as a Blistering New Instrumental CD being released this Fall Michael perform’s Live sans band with backing tracks and has opened for Favored Nations Recording Artist ANDY TIMMONS at an Ibanez/Mesa performance clinic at Grandmas Music and Sound Andy remarked as he took the stage after Michael's set "Wow,Maybe I should take some lessons from that guy!!" Michael has also opened for ULI ROTH,MICHAEL SCHENKER,BLUES SARACENO(with his former band SYSTEMIC)and GREAT WHITE as a Solo act Michael has been featured in Guitar 2001 Magazine and on Guitar Nine.com Fans can purchase Michaels 2nd Instrumental release and First CD "Tomb of the Unknown Shredder" at Michaels Official website www.theunknownshredder.com and on MySpace at www.myspace.com/michaelleeostrander A NEW INSTRUMENTAL CD entitled “I Shred Therefore I Am" is being recorded currently which will be released for sale on Michaels various websites,the CD is slated for a Fall 2008 release ”Tomb of the Unknown Shredder”,Michael’s first Instrumental CD was a compilation of his first cassette release “Declaration of Revolution” (1997)with 7 songs he had just written Originally released in 1998, “Tomb” garnered over 6000 play’s on mp3.com,2 New Mexico Music Industry Coalition Awards and some great review’s in the underground fanzine scene The New Jersey native,who has resided in Albuquerque since age 16 was described as “Joe Satriani on Acid” by one author “Babylon” A Demo CD recorded on Line 6 “Rifftracker” software on the guitarist’s home computer in March and April of 2005 received lots of play on My Space with the title track having over 1000 plays in 10 months time and got a lot of positive response Michael has been playing in Metal and Rock band’s,since the age of 16,the most notable and recent being SYSTEMIC The group disbanded in 2004 but not before releasing 2 CD’s,Opening for the Guitar heroes mentioned above as well as Motorhead,Drowning Pool,Adema and American Head Charge One of the most popular Metal band’s in Albuquerque history,selling close to 2000 CD’s locally and internationally,received over 10,000 play’s on mp3.com(certain songs spent as long as a week at the #1 position on the Metal charts)and played show’s in LA,Scottsdale,Denver,New Orleans ,El Paso ,as well as all over New Mexico and had a video made by drummer Mike Carreras for the song “Surgical Solution” featured on Heavycore’s DVD “Roasting Posers” Michael played Live for 3 years in the late 90’s,(before forming Systemic )as a 1-Man Band,his first show by himself was opening for Great White and he played with virtually every Metal band in Albuquerque at numerous shows You can also hear and see the latest of Michael’s music,pics,video and blogs at www.myspace.com/michaelleeostrander www.garageband.com/michaelleeostrander www.indiecharts.com/onemanshredmachine www.youtube.com/hd147man www.theunknownshredder.com Contact-Michael Ostrander 3522 Wyoming Blvd NE Apt 101 Albuquerque,NM 87111 [email protected]