Dragon's Kiss (album)
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Dragon's Kiss is the first studio album
Studio album
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 by guitarist
Guitarist
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 Marty Friedman, released in 1988 through Shrapnel Records
Shrapnel Records
Shrapnel Records is a guitar-oriented record label started in 1980 by record producer Mike Varney. Guitarist Marty Friedman , one of the label's most successful artists, first appeared on the album Unsung Guitar Heroes II in 1980 with the band Vixen. Vixen would later change their name to Hawaii...

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Track listing

Personnel

  • Marty Friedman – guitar
    Guitar
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    , bass
    Bassline
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    , production
    Record producer
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  • Jason Becker
    Jason Becker
    Jason Eli Becker is an American virtuoso neo-classical metal guitarist and composer. At the age of 16, he became part of the Mike Varney-produced duo Cacophony with his friend Marty Friedman. They released Speed Metal Symphony in 1987 and Go Off! in 1988...

     – additional guitar solos
    Solo (music)
    In music, a solo is a piece or a section of a piece played or sung by a single performer...

     (tracks 1, 6)
  • Deen Castronovo
    Deen Castronovo
    Deen Castronovo is an Italian American drummer who has played in various bands, including Kandles at Nine, Cacophony, Bad English, Journey, The Enemy, Wild Dogs, Dr. Mastermind, Hardline, Planet Us, Soul Sirkus, Social Distortion, and Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler's G/Z/R, as well as in...

     – drums
    Drum kit
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  • Dino Alden – engineering
    Audio engineering
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    , mixing
    Audio mixing (recorded music)
    In audio recording, audio mixing is the process by which multiple recorded sounds are combined into one or more channels, most commonly two-channel stereo. In the process, the source signals' level, frequency content, dynamics, and panoramic position are manipulated and effects such as reverb may...

  • George Horn – mastering
    Audio mastering
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  • Mike Varney
    Mike Varney
    Mike Varney is an American musician, record producer, music publisher and impresario. He is the founder of the Shrapnel Label Group, which includes Shrapnel Records, Tone Center Records and Blues Bureau International. He also has a 50% stake in Magna Carta Records, a New York-based label...

     – executive production
    Executive producer
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