Ethan Brosh is an American

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guitarist from

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. He is best known for his solo work and for his work as the lead guitarist in the band Burning Heat.

Early life

Growing up in

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, at a very young age Brosh took piano lessons briefly after being inspired by classical music and classical composer

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. He later became intrigued by hearing his brother's cassette tape of

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album ''Number of the Beast'' at the age of 11 and picked up classical and electric guitar at age 12. Brosh moved to the United States in 2001 where he became a student at the

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. He graduated with honors in 2004 and then returned as a part-time teacher in 2008 till present.

Career

Brosh was signed to Magna Carta Records which released his debut instrumental album ''Out of Oblivion'' and distributed it worldwide on March 24, 2009. The album features

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, Extreme,

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) on drums and guest appearances by George Lynch (

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, Lynch Mob), Greg Howe (

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) and Joe Stump ( Holy Hell). The album was mixed and mastered by

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). The album artwork was created by

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the long time artist of Iron Maiden. Additionally, he was the guitar player of the band Angels of Babylon along with

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, Holy Hell) and

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). The debut album, ''Kingdom of Evil'' was released on January 29, 2010, on Metal Heaven Records in Europe, In May 2010 on Hydrant Records in Japan, and on July 29 on BurnHill Union Records in America and the rest of the world. Angels of Babylon was featured in several magazines worldwide as well as having some radio support in different countries. Brosh is known for his love of vintage 1980s amplifiers and guitars such as the Fender HM Strat, Washburn EC29, BC Rich Gunslinger and ADA MP1 Preamp In more recent years Brosh has been exclusively playing through the ISP Technologies Theta amp in all its different versions. In June 2012, Brosh released a music video for his song "Downward Spiral" off of his ''Out of Oblivion'' album. The song and video feature George Lynch of

and Lynch Mob. On April 24, 2013, Brosh's band started a massive 25 city US/CANADA tour as the direct support of Yngwie Malmsteen with his sister

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as second guitarist. Ethan released his second solo instrumental album on March 4, 2014, through

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's Rocker Records. The album was mixed by world class producer

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who came out of retirement for this project after almost 20 years away from the music industry. The album was mastered by mastering engineer

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at Gateway Mastering in Portland, Maine, and has an appearance by bass player

. The album artwork is an original painting done by artist Joe Petagno. After getting to know

, Brosh joined Carmine and his brother Vinnie Appice as the guitar player of their show ''Drum Wars''. Later on in 2014 a live album called ''Drum Wars Live!'' was released with Brosh being the guitar player on it. Also during the years 2014 and 2015 The Ethan Brosh Band went on a couple of tours supporting another one of Brosh's guitar heroes in Jake E. Lee with his new band Red Dragon Cartel. In the summer of 2015 Brosh played guitar in one of his favorite bands

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as they performed at the Pentaport rock festival in South Korea opening for the Scorpions. Brosh provided guitar tracks on

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front man

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's 2016 solo album '' One Sided War''. Two Michael Sweet music videos featuring Brosh were made: one for the song "Bizarre" and the other for the song "Creator". In 2017, the Ethan Brosh Band got back on the road for more tour dates as the direct support act for guitar player

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. In February 2018, Ethan released his third studio instrumental album, ''Conspiracy'', again featuring Max Norman (mixing engineer), mastered by

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, and artwork by Derek Riggs. It also features a guest appearance by

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guitarist

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on the song "Tomb of the Gods", which is also the first video from the album. The guest solo by Satchel can be heard on the album version. The video was created by Enver Perez.

Discography

Solo

*''Out of Oblivion'' (2009), Magna Carta Records *''Prog Around the World'' (2009), Magna Carta Records *''Live The Dream'' (2014), Rocker Records *''Drum Wars Live!'' (2014), Rocker Records *''Conspiracy'' (2018), Monster Tone Records

With Angels of Babylon

*''Kingdom of Evil'' (2010), Burnhill Union Records *''Thundergod'' Scarlett Records (2013), Rigs Productions

With Michael Sweet

*'' One Sided War'' (2016), Rat Pak Records *'' TEN'' (2019), Rat Pak Records

References

External links

Ethan Brosh Official WebsiteEncyclopaedia Mettalum
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Ytsejam Interview with Ethan Brosh
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