As the original drummer for MEGADEATH,Gar Samuelson not only taught the speedmetal world how to swing, he also convinced leader Dave Mustaine that the future of metal lay in political commentary, not satanic cliches. Gar was right.
So after helping create some of the decade's most dramatic and important heavy rock, Gar Samuelson is picking up where he left off with a five-piece fusion-metal group called FATAL OPERA.
There goal is nothing less than development of the next evolutionary step in music. FATAL OPERA is heavy and unpredictable, with an ear for memorable hooks and challenging arangements.

Gar and his equally - talented guitarist brother Stew have played together since the early 1970's.
FATAL OPERA is the ultimate expression of ideas they've been eveloping for the better part of 20 years.
Recruiting bass phenom Travis Karcher and vocalist extradionaire Dave Inman, Gar and Stew built a home studio and began recording demo after demo of original material. In early 1993, work began on FATAL OPERA's self-titled first album. Shortly after recording was completed, FATAL OPEA recruited guitarist Billy Brehme to join Stew as six-string co-conspirator.

FATAL OPERA contains nine original songs that dissolve all boundaries between power and melody, technical precision and reckless abandon.
The opener "Dead By 1998" takes a harsh look at anonymous, dehumanized modern living while obsessive, chopping guitar lines pour on the pressure. "Beaten Path" is a speedy contemporary love song from the same stressed-out city atmosphere. But FATAL OPERA is not
stuck in one place --"The Unwilling" is a memory of long ago, using nylon-string guitar and pop vocal sensibilities to open up FATAL OPERA's potential for rock radio.

For fans of the heavy stuff, "Evil Tears" is positively epic, the story of a gang-banger's revenge spun out in desperate, loping scale passages and tribal rhythms.
And "Kill'Em" offers a permanent solution to political gridlock in Washington as machine-gun syncopation chatters along, underscoring Dave's lyrical point.
The album concludes with a bold interpretation of Jimi Hendrix's song-suite, "1983...(A Merman I Should Turn to Be)/Moon, Turn the Tides...(Gently gently away," perhaps the first time any band has recorded this ambitious cover

FATAL OPERA is currently gigging in Florida, refining new material and sharpening their chops to prepare for the world-wide attension that's sure to follow. Rock fans have waited long enough to hear what Gar Samuelson has to say for the 1990's, and two words sum it up: FATAL OPERA.

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