The Great Kat
The Great Kat burst onto the scene in the mid-eighties, a ball of
energy, scantily clad and
mugging for the camera at every opportunity while loudly proclaiming
to one and all that she was the fastest guitarist of all time.
Truth be told -- while her image makes it hard to take her all that
seriously, the fact of the matter is that she's an incredible
guitar player, apparently a graduate of the Julliard School where
she played violin (which she still does).
Two full-length albums were released in the late eighties, basically
speed metal with her hyperactive classical guitar work front and center.
Eventually the novelty seemed to wear off, in that she more or less
faded from world-wide view, but in fact she's still at it to this day,
image and attitude fully intact.
For some reason she's foregone releasing full albums
in recent years, instead
recording EPs that are often less than 10 minutes long, still
full of hyperspeed classical metal guitar work and almost exclusively
covers or reworks of real classical works.
Current Members
Great Kat (Katherine Thomas)
vocals/guitars
Jeff Ingegno
bass
Lionel Cordew
drums
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Former Members/Guests
Tom Von Doom
bass
Adam Killa
drums
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Discography
Worship Me Or Die
1987
Roadrunner
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- Metal Messiah
- Kat Possessed
- Death to You
- Satan Goes to Church
- Worship Me or Die
- Demons
- Speed Death
- Kill the Mothers
- Ashes to Dust
- Satan Says
- Metal Massacre
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- Great Kat
- Tom Von Doom
- Adam Killa
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Beethoven On Speed
1990
Roadrunner
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- Beethoven on Speed
- Flight of the Bumble-Bee
- Funeral March
- God
- Sex and Violins
- Gripping Obsession
- Worshipping Bodies
- Total Tyrant
- Ultra-Dead
- Revenge of the Mongrel
- Kat Abuse
- Made in Japan
- Beethoven Mosh (5th Symphony)
- Paganinni's 24th Caprice
- Guitar Concerto in Blood Minor
- Back to the Future: For Geniuses Only
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Digital Beethoven On Speed
1996
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- Goddess
- Cyberspeed
- Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries"
- Paganini's "Caprice #9"
- Bach's "Partita #3"
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(EP) Guitar Goddess
1997
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- Rossini's "The Barber of Seville"
- Dominatrix
- Feast of the Dead
- Sarasate's "Gypsy Violin Waltz Zigeuneriveisen"
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(EP) Bloody Vivaldi
1998
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- Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons" for Violin, Chamber Orchestra & Band
- Torture Chamber
- Blood
- Sarasate's "Carmen Fantasy'" for Violin & Band
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- Great Kat
- Jeff Ingegno
- Lionel Cordew
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(EP) Rossini's Rape
2000
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- Rossini's "William Tell Overture" for Symphony Orchestra & Band
- Sodomize
- Castration
- Bazzini's "The Road of the Goblins" for Violin, Piano & Band
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- Great Kat
- Jeff Ingegno
- Lionel Cordew
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(EP) Wagner's War
2002
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- Act 1: War - Wagner’s “The Ride of the Valkyries” (from the Opera “Die Walkürie) for Symphony Orchestra, Band & Opera Singers
- Act 1: War - War
- Act 1: War - Terror
- Act II: Revenge - Punishment
- Act II: Revenge - Humiliation
- Act III: Victory - Liszt's "Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2" for Symphony Orchestra & Band
- Act III: Victory - Sarasate's "Zapateado" for Violin, Piano & Band
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- Great Kat
- Jeff Ingegno
- Lionel Cordew
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Extreme Guitar Shred
2005
Reviews: Lords Of Metal
Total Insanity
COMPILATION
2008
Beethoven's Guitar Shred
2009
(EP) Beethoven Shreds
2011
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- The Flight Of The Bumble-Bee
- Beethoven's "5th Symphony"
- Torture Techniques
- Bach's "Brandenburg Concerto #3"
- IslamoFascists
- Bach's "The Art Of The Fugue"
- Paganini's "Caprice #24"
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