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Inviolate
Rock · 2022 · 10 tracks · 47m

Inviolate

Technical imagination where a triple-neck guitar and surgical precision meet mythological themes. Polished, dense, and relentlessly creative.

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It's the album where he finally plays a triple-neck guitar that looks like a spaceship and actually makes it sound musical.

A triumphant and highly imaginative exploration of what a guitar can do when pushed to its absolute physical limits.

Inviolate · vs · Steve Vai
Mythology+3.1σ

The writing leans far further into mythology than the rest of the catalogue.

Tracklist · 10 Tracks · 47m
01
Teeth of the Hydra
5:13
02
Zeus in Chains
4:39
03
Little Pretty
6:26
04
Candlepower
3:31
05
Apollo in Color
4:19
06
Avalancha
5:09
07
Greenish Blues
6:07
08
Knappsack
5:18
09
Sandman Cloud Mist
6:01
10
Swamp Fairies
1:11
Moments Worth Waiting For
The opening of track 1 where the Hydra guitar's harp strings and bass neck create a massive, multi-layered wall of sound.
The clean, finger-picked 'joint-shifting' technique on 'Candlepower' that sounds like a guitar being played by a robot with human soul.
The slow, agonizingly expressive blues bends on 'Greenish Blues' that mimic a human voice crying.
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