Current and Former Members

Vocals:
Manuel Redrico

Guitars:
Divyd Ray Gutierrez
Ken

Drums:
Clark Paraiso

Bass:
Calix Gualdrapa

Former Members

Guitars:
Albert Martin (2004-2006),
Benjo gutierrez (2007),
Migs (2007),

my avatar , signature

Posted by: Dave Gutierrez

traces of war logo, violent breed is my thrash metal side project. I use this jpg file as my signature to forum posts. I posted it here to establish a url code for this jpg file.

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The Shred Master Experience

Posted by Dave Gutierrez

These are the pictures from our gigs last year when we have Albert Martin as our guitarist. Traces of War 2006 Line up (Manuel on vocals, Dave on Guitars, Clark on drums, Calix on bass and Albert on guitars).Original compositions made with Albert Martin are Light, Beheading Insanity, Death is the Cure, The Gathering, Dark Scenario and Holy Pain.

Straight Edge Biography

Posted by Dave Gutierrez

Band pictures with Benjo Gutierrez on guitars, My straight edge brother. Songs played with Benjo Gutierrez are Light, Four by Four and Beheading Insanity. Playing with Benjo is very comfortable for me because he is my little brother and we feel like we are the Amott brothers lol. (Michael Amott and Christopher Amott.) in our dreams lol. We practice and refine the riffs at home. The only disadvantage with Benjo are his age gap between us, musical interests and busy schedule.

Yamaha RG Guitar for P7,000

Posted by Dave Gutierrez
I finally bought my friend's Yamaha RG electric guitar for 7k. good price. Awesome sound, nice tremolo, floyd rose. good for thrash and death metal. Now I can give my Sonata Guitar to my younger brother.

Saudi Shred

Posted by Dave Gutierrez

You will also see on the pictures our former guitarist, Albert. (the cute one..lol) He is a shred machine with his Washburn guitar. He is the one responsible why I am a great thrash metal fan. He shared me all the must have thrash metal albums. He is a faster shredder than me. He is disciplined and competent enough for the band but he had to go to Saudi for his job. Engineering I think his course is. I hope he will not smell like saudi if he comes back. What I hope is he will look like Saudi. Wearing maong jacket and pants with gold rings and necklaces all over him. With matching shades and rubber shoes. Manuel, Clark, Calix, Me and Albert is one of the strongest line up we've had. This is the time when we've experienced a lot of gigs.

Second Hand Guitar

Posted by Dave Gutierrez

Im thinking of buying another guitar. The one with a floyd rose in it. Because the one that I have, A Sonata Proll, doesn't have a floyd rose. So if i try to use the tremolo bar, the guitar will be detuned.My friend is selling me a yamaha RG guitar with floyd rose for P7,000.

The original price of that guitar is P24,000. But the problem is it has some scratches. I think of buying this guitar and get it refurbished.

I also found a vendetta dean guitar with maple finish but no floyd rose for sale for P4,500 in a jam

studio in vista verde, pasig. Im also interested on that one. Im just waiting for my payday for me to purchase any of the two.

The reason why I wanna buy another guitar is because Im tired of having me and my brother use a single guitar. He also has a band so we are having difficulty using only one guitar. But sometimes he uses a Yamaha strat borrowed from his friend.

My ideal guitar is the ESP Alexi laiho signature. its $419 i think. Its about P18,000+ converted to peso. Its a flying V guitar with floyd rose. It has 2 colors, black and white. I want the black one of course. I dont know if we have it here in the Philippines and if ever we have it here, I'm gonna save my job income for it. I try to order it on musiciansfried.com http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/ESP-LTD-Alexi-Laiho200-Electric-Guitar?sku=512896 and its 15$ per month + additional charges but they dont accept orders from the Philippines. $15 is equal to P675 if the rate is P45/$1. Nice price.

New Guitarist

Posted by dave Gutierrez

Anyway, we've got our new guitarist, his name is Ken, great axeman, we dont have a picture of him yet here on our blog but we will grab it soon. (I'll try a nude one.lol) Better and more experienced player than me. He is a close friend of some of the guys from end this day. He replaced my little brother benjo gutierrez because benjo is more focused on his own metalcore/hardocre band stygian fury.

I also experienced watching Stygian guys jam and play. Their sound is hardcore and metalcore music with black metal sounded vocals.. weird.. hehe. One thing is they dont put guitar solos on thier songs even though they know how to do it. Maybe because benjo (the one who directs the band) is more of a hardcore than a metal kid.

We also experienced having migs as our guitarist. Migs is a very excellent guitarist. I think he had two bands, Delta Blues and Garden of Eden. He is a great guy but we are having problems with him regarding schedule. He is the guy that you can always see on Wilfredos bar because he is living there. We've lso experienced jamming on the bar late in the afternoon. Great guy, great talent.
Manuel, Clark, Calix and me are all working on a graveyard shift. I think Calix works day and night. lol. Calix maybe is working all day long.. joke.. Thats the reason why we have difficulty on our schedules. This affects our jam time. Manuel is in Ambergris, Clark is in Itouchpoint, Me in Teleperformance, and Calix in NCO (RMH), Bunch of callboys.

Ken is an excellent guitar player and I hope he would be a great contribution the our music and to the scene. Ken had many bands and side projects but I hope he can do the fucking metal with us.

Bridgeway

Posted by Dave Gutierrez

I wanna share what happened in our gig at Bridgeway, Brick Road, Cainta, near Sta. lucia Mall. Our set was great (we miss having great sets..) even though we're second to the last band to play. So, most of people are already home and only few people are left to finish the show.

I Messed up the Gig

Posted by Dave Gutierrez

These are some of the pictures taken from our last gig at wilfredos, i dont remember the date. What i remember is we messed up on the stage a lil bit (especially me). My guitar is on "fucked up mode" again where it just creates a humming noise and it doesnt catch the signal from the jack and amplifier .It made me borrow my friend's Washburn guitar.

That situation seldom happens, ( It just happens often 3 years ago when we were just kids playing our post-hardcore music. ) That's the reason why I was totally pissed because I messed up the whole set and thats why i went home early. I didn't even finish the gig itself.

Anyway I got my guitar fixed myself and make sure that scenario won't happen again especially at gigs. hehe,.Some of the pictures here are from our jam the same day the gig was also scheduled. we didnt have enough practice or jam time because everyone especially Calixtro is busy (hmmm....).

Band Pics A

Band Profile

Band Name: Traces of War
Year Started: 2004
email:
tracesofwar@yahoo.com
Yahoo Mailing List:
tracesofwar@yahoogroups.com
Friendster:
tracesofwar@yahoo.com

Our old poster

from left: Calix, Manuel, Clark, Dave, Albert

Music Genre:
Metalcore / Thrash Metal / Heavy Metal

Band Profile:

Vocalist:
Manuel (Aboy) Redrico III
Age: 20
contact no: 09162954056

Guitars: Divyd Ray (Dave) Gutierrez
Age: 20
Contact no: 09173511621

Drums:
Clark Paraiso
Age: 18
Contact no: 09156217421

Bass:
Calix Guladrapa
Age: 20
Contact no: 09157414093

Guitars:
Albert Martin
Age: 22
Contact no: 09179703808
(currently in Saudi Arabia)

Biography

Traces of War (former tears of all) started year 2003 and then changed to traces of war at year 2004.thier music can be classified as metalcore influenced by 80's thrash metal sound of Slayer, Anthrax, Megadeth, Kreator etc.. They are also influenced by heavy metal bands such as iron maiden and judas priest, also Melodic death metal bands like children of bodom, archenemy, at the gates and in flames.They are also influenced by metalcore/hardcore bands like Unearth, Shadows Fall, Lamb of God, Himsa, God Forbid,Darkest Hour, Hatebreed, Terror, Throwdown, Sworn Enemy, Grindcore bands like Pig Destroyer, Death Metal bands like Nile, Cannibal Corpse, Cryptopsy, Deicide and more.Thier original music is composed of thrash, death and heavy metal riffages, guitar solos, stacatto and blastbeats, guttural growl, husky voice and societal lyrics in a melodic approach.

Music:
Light by Traces of WarMP3 format
http://media.putfile.com/Light-by-Traces-of-War















Asylum Bar, QC

Musical Influences:

Heavy Metal, Thrash Metal, Metalcore, Death Metal, Power Metal, Black Metal, Hardcore

Albums:
We are currently working on our EP.

Original Compositions:
Light
Beheading Insanity
Death is the Cure
The Gathering
Dark Scenario
Holy Pain

Gig/Events Played:
Many,.. Productions events, bars, etc..

Bars Played:
Freedom (QC)
Mayrics(Espana)
Jam 318(QC),
Wilfredos(Fairview)
Purple Haze(Marikina)
Asylum(QC)
Junior Frog(QC)
Rykes Well(Antipolo), etc.
and many more

Productions Played:
Gods of Metal
MAD
Autobox
Jobless
Wilfredos
Symphonic Defiance
Sintopado
Helmet
and many more....