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Invisible Oranges tipped us off to Flametal, a metal flamenco band highlighted by guitarist Benjamin Woods. Apparently, when a roommate stole his electric guitar, he turned to acoustic and discovered his talent for flamenco guitar. Flametal is a full band that plays original (and much heavier) music, but their third album, Heavy Mellow, is pretty much all Benjamin, all acoustic, and almost all covers. While there’s a rough similarity on the acoustic album to fellow acoustic shredders Rodrigo y Gabriela, Flametal’s covers of Iron Maiden, Megadeth, Yngwie Malmsteen and Queensryche definitely have their own sound. Check out their take on Maiden’s “Aces High.”
