Harshest Realm - Shredfest 2015 (10th Anniversary Edition) (2025)

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Ten years after its original release, Garret Kriston’s sophomore album under the Harshest Realm moniker is available for the first time across streaming platforms, at long last sporting an improved mix, superior mastering, and proper track indexing. Shredfest 2015 was and still is a continuously grooving half hour mix of ten original 160 bpm tracks, combining the high energy polyrhythmic propulsion of Chicago footwork with a veritable onslaught of guitar heroics suggestive of Robert Quine, Sonny Sharrock, John McLaughlin, and other esteemed six-string heavyweights. Kriston’s unprecedented, unmatched, and fully actualized conception of the modern electronic music producer/composer serving (at minimum) double duty as a supreme master of shredding stands as a yet to be uncovered blueprint for boundless innovations by future musical visionaries.