What's The Deal With TINA GUO? - The Heavy Metal CELLIST

World renowned heavy metal cellist Tina Guo is a familiar face to many, and with her recent collaboration with Sabaton and their new Steel Commanders music video, she's part of the metal world more than ever! But... how does she really stack up as a musician? In this video we take a look at her career and some of her most impressive accomplishments.
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[@tinaguo]

Omg I just saw this - thank you so much!!! ❤❤❤❤

[@GuitarMAXMusic]

Of course!

[@anangryranger]

From an old musician's standpoint, I find her as an immensely talented musician of the first class. Her ability to cross over numerous styles with perfection in performance says it all. Anyone who says this young lady is not a legitimate super talent is misguided.

[@danyarger]

She came to my house in Burbank, CA back in 2009. I sold her a mini oven from a Craigslist ad that belonged to my friend. She wore skimpy daisy duke shorts. I had band equipment setup at the house and she mentioned she plays Cello. She was like 21 at the time and probably the most beautiful woman that was ever in that house. She’s got all the discipline and connections and she’s done big things in the music industry.

[@ryane323]

I had only heard about her thru the Sabaton collab, but seeing as I'm a fan of Apocalyptica, seeing cellos in heavy metal is nothing new. She's a wicked player tho!

[@sgt.grinch3299]

Impressive lady. I live on top of a mountain and don’t get out much. I apologize about not knowing anything about her. Any instrument can become a metal tool. It’s the person, attitude, and ability of the musician.

[@kryptych]

I've covered her music in ReGen once or twice, and I know she worked briefly with your ex-Society 1 band mate Matt Zane. I've heard that she also plays on Hans Zimmer's score for the new DUNE movie. Spoke to her once, and she was really nice. As a former metalhead, I think it's awesome to have a musician like her performing metal with a different instrument. Metal, like any musical genre, should not be about the instrument, but the sound and the style, how it makes you feel, and what it does to your heart and mind.

[@Walks-With-Pride]

Thanks for shining the light on this wonderful musician! I will definitely check her out.

[@ronpatterson5483]

Thanks for highlighting!! Great to see her working with so many amazing artists🤘🤘🤘

[@davidhurtado2725]

Professional cellist here. Tina has the chops but what makes her stand out is that she is very business savvy as well. I know dozens of super talented classical musicians that are crap at marketing themselves and their success is limited. With Tina, you get the whole package. She is what Nita Strauss is to the guitar.

[@danepaulstewart8464]

WOW, super cool! I’ve heard of her before but didn’t really know anything about her. Thanks for the expanded info, Max! 😁👍👍 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[@gsbguitarsgsb679]

I’m the guy under the rock, I’ve never heard of her or heard her. I’ll get caught up on her now though, binge watch a bunch of her videos… Thanks

[@dan8402]

Tina Guo; Super Model, Super Musician, Super Cool? You decide!!! I think she carries her traditional instrument and shook up the status quo. This is a good thing. Much like Hu, or Heavy Metal Monks, this is taking something we might not consider metal and making it so. It sorta proves Metal is for EVERYONE! You go Tina!!! 🤟🤟🤟🤟

[@moparbryan]

The album is pronounced Day-S R A. Which means loosely “day’s of wrath” or day’s of tribulation”It is a medieval Latin poem characterized by its accentual stress and rhymed lines. The metre is trochaic. The poem describes the Last Judgment, trumpet summoning souls before the throne of God, where the saved will be delivered and the unsaved cast into eternal flames. Very Metal!

[@CrushingAxes]

Nice background Max!

[@vincentgarzoli3197]

I have been aware of her classical work for sometime, but the first efforts by her to crossover into the rock world that noticed were a number of years ago when she would show up and participate in the Ultimate Jam Nights hosted by ex-Quiet Riot and Giuffria bassist Chuck Wright at the Lucky Strike in Hollywood. Several videos can be found of her and well-established rockers playing covers such as "Kashmir" on KZbin.

[@eguitarplayer6689]

I had not seen her yet- thanks for sharing. "Flight of the Bumblebee" is a crazy difficult piece.

[@ferdberfle5069]

I have not heard her play. I did see her on one of Joe Bonnamassa's "Live from Nerdville" interview shows a few months ago. Quite the well spoken young lady!

[@gustavofigueroa-avila5897]

Tina is awesome…been following her for years her instrument is perfect from classical to metal music cause both styles go hand by hand in compositions…. Vanessa Mae child prodigy became likewise from classical to metal saw her playing with Scorpions…. The Hu awesome metal group uses original wind instruments… great review thank you for your attention to Tina, I in her media every day

[@robertclarkguitar]

Brilliant !!!

[@MichaelAChang]

Been following her since 2009; she's quite a musician for sure.

[@DeakonLekross]

Never realized how all over the spectrum she was! Wow she really has done quite a lot for herself! I should really look into her more especially her new stuff!

[@somedudekyle]

I Love Tina! She kills it!

[@Buffaloheart68]

Discovered her due to the Wonder Woman theme, just so awesome. Looked her up and became a instant fan.

[@officialdandaman]

She's just a skilled cellist who's attractive and happens to NOT have much competition in the world 🌎🌍 I mean, think about it, how many cellist play any type of Rock music. Congrats to her.

[@edigabrieli7864]

Stephan Hauser master cellist is the one, discovered by Elton John. From classical to metal and anything in between, check him out he is the real thing.

[@thebaldshredder]

Being attractive goes a long way.

[@superblondeDotOrg]

Any typical classically-trained cellist could play rock music because rock is like kindergarten-level skills compared to Bach. But they just don't play rock, for various reasons including cultural bias against rock music within the classically trained and within the classical music education system. She is more than simply a skilled cellist, she is a world-class top cellist, that's like Tom Brady NFL Quarterback level, and just as there are those unique top-level players in the world, there is only one Tina Guo in the world.

[@officialdandaman]

@@thebaldshredder yes it does, especially in the entertainment industry.

[@officialdandaman]

@@superblondeDotOrg yeah, but you can make more consistent money in the rock music world.

[@RyanJarnaginPulseGuitar]

Who the hell is ready for another GUITAR MAX SHRED CONTEST!! Let’s gooooooOOOOOOO!!!!!

[@dannywilliams3928]

hey if they can rock it I don't care if they're playing a tuba more power to them brother. This gal definitely plays as good as she looks and that is phenomenal.

[@DJCD92162095]

TINA 郭 RULES!!! 👍🤘🤝🙏🙌

[@j.f.fisher5318]

Hell yeah, it adds an expanded range of sound patterns, and with her use of distortion pedals just like a guitarist the tone fits right in.

[@paoladeafcellist]

She is amazing cellist 🙌🏼

[@mikecole819]

That’s our girl!

[@garcemac]

Ngl Max. You look good with the blue background

[@aztecwhistle9122]

She's one of a kind and belongs wherever she wants to musically.

[@jaysartori9032]

She is so amazing!

[@mtrich8113]

When I first heard the Wonder Woman March I said to myself guitar? And then later on found out it was a cello. Hans Zimmerman( a composer who I'm a big fan of) knew what he was doing when he Incorporated her skill into his music.

[@triggerwarning5762]

"Dies Irae" is Latin. "Day of Wrath", Judgement Day.

[@taijiquanzhe]

As long as the music is good, then any instrument can be used. Just look at bands like The Hu. Instrument choice should never be a tool to gatekeep the genre.

[@tonys.4657]

She's the coolest!

[@moonv6648]

She is amazing!

[@1965niles]

Back in the day there was this violinist named Mark Wood that shredded on an electric violin. I don't know what ever happened to him though . So a non traditional metal instrument is not a new concept, That being said she is very talented .

[@GuitarMAXMusic]

Mark Wood is still doin' his thing! He's got his own brand of violins.

[@1965niles]

@@GuitarMAXMusic Sweet !Glad to know he is still out there doing well !

[@davidrea8833]

Tina is awesome no matter what type of music she plays

[@knowitall1694]

Max, it is artists/musicians/people like Tina who put the "zing" back into music which gets boring and repetitive over time. Imagine of Yngwie was your bread and butter heavy metal meat head without the classical influence? He'd be boring, right? I once showed up to a heavy metal gig in a suit and tie (I played in a hard rock band that night). When a few meat heads wanted to beat me up because of my attire, I referred them to Angus Young's school uniform. They then went away scratching their heads. I have always edged on with those that are too narrow minded. I was kicked out of my own hard rock band because my meat head band members saw my jazz collection at home. They said that this was embarrassing and could no longer work with me. Especially when I started collaborating with fusion players, that was the final straw for the meat heads. Anyway, Tina is cool, she has captured a niche and she's doing extremely well. Any mixing of cultures, music or art is welcome.

[@frankdiaz1005]

i love her

[@texanfournow]

Well if you like this sort of thing, check out Emily Hopkins harp playing with distortion, reverb, fuzz, etc.

[@rccarsandmusic2641]

She is Excellent!

[@kevinmkraft]

She's amazing. I just wish she had continued with her Cello lessons. She must be too busy to continue them even as I started getting a lot of of them.

[@thebaldshredder]

Finally got a green screen?

[@magusreaver]

Been following her for a while, she is the real McCoy.

[@mysteriesoftherealm]

YEA, the real Mc boy, this isn't no female. That's why it dresses up in so many ridiculous costumes, to hide the obvious. I've done work for the medical industry on changing genders, this technology is super advanced now a days. It's been going on for a long time in entertainment. They want men to lust after males, kinda' weird really.

[@busabrye]

She is awesome with Bonamassa

[@bkmeahan]

ran across her music years ago. Insanely talented. Unfortunately like a lot of neo classical musicians like her, Bond, 12 Girls Band, Vanessa Mae, the classical crowd constantly disses them in spite of their success.

[@jug1415]

She is great but hell Apocalyptica will be forever my og heavy metal cellists!

[@EstelonAgarwaen]

the more weird or different instruments the better. i like big layery stuff, so one more instrument is one more better.

[@tpike32]

She also does a lot of video game theme songs. Did I also mention she looks like my wife 😝

[@skraagthedestroyer]

Apocalyptica are the Original metal cellists, but it's good to see other artists using the instrument, but then almost any instrument can do metal; just look at Nightwish for example; or Eluveitie maybe?

[@michaelolz]

I’m a HUGE fan of classical stylings combined with metal. She’s definitely not just another pretty face. And the cello happens to be a favorite instrument of mine so I say bring everything you got.

[@jimmyford8390]

Sup max!! Could you plz check out the indio classic 66 silver burst? It looks like a bad ass customizable guitar

[@stephawnicus1990]

I don't care what instrument it is as long as it's a genuine performance.

[@dougkennedy4906]

What does ot matter what instrument you play? If you can adapt to different styles, you are an awesome musician. For example. The bands that take heavy metal and play it with bluegrass instruments.

[@Guacamolian]

I'd love to see her collaborate with Apocalyptica

[@murderface15g13]

Dude is Nathan Explosion's doppelganger.

[@salintium]

Cool but what about Lindsey Stirling and Patty Gurdy. Do you think they could be as just in demand as Tina Guo. I do.

[@flogginga_dead_horse4022]

I've been following her for years. super nice and talented. Not sure why you made this video though. lol

[@GuitarMAXMusic]

I like to do biographical videos every now and then, plus she has a new album out so it's a good time.

[@flogginga_dead_horse4022]

@@GuitarMAXMusic I was just messing with you lol. That's cool :D

[@Peasmouldia]

I'd begun to expect I'd been living under a rock... Ta Max.

[@LawrencePybus]

Sure, any instrument is good in metal if done in a interesting way and performed by someone who can actually play, iv even heard the odd note played on saxophone and xylophone on the first DANZIG album, but you have to listen, it's really well hinden. Any one else heard it? 🤘🏻

[@racheladkins6060]

I’ve been living under a rock then! I’ve never heard of heard.

[@daveseaver6337]

Wow

[@christiancordaway2181]

Guitar MAX shirt gets me so much poon

[@solunasunrise]

Check out "Burning Witches" man ... from europe ... dutch/swiss .... they have one good track out of my forehead : "Hexenhammer"

[@garycoates4987]

she just rules,, she's not only cellist in METAL she can shred

[@superblondeDotOrg]

Wow two of my favorite musician youtubers in one video! Yup! Tina Guo and My Little Pony. 😆 I wish heavy metal musicians were as educated as Tina Guo is in classical music, although she did drop out of university in order to play gigs so her academic training is not as complete as it could be. 🎼 AFTER ALL, it's the 5th Beatle, the classically-trained producer, who made The Beatles famous by taking their pop songs to the next level by using Classical Music Theory and Orchestral Theory. Anyways you missed the important fact that she has Perfect Pitch. 🎵 On an instrument which requires daily intonation practice, and has no frets, that is a pretty phenomenal gift to have. I think Tina Guo rocks. However it's unfortunate she has to project so much skin and sex-appeal in order to keep moving forward in the Music Industry. Physical appeal and sex appeal is a huge flaw in the Music Industry which is supposed to be about Music not about Booty. Cello as an instrument is very highly regarded in classical music to the point where I've heard classical musicians say that if they could be born as an orchestral instrument, they would want it to be a cello. The timbre and range and expressivity is unmatched in any other instrument. Only Euphonium comes close to it in timbre and range in my opinion. Tina Guo is also one of the FEW classical musicians who dares to push electric pickups into the orchestra, with her electric cello. The stigma AGAINST use of electronic instruments within a classical music context is still very real even in 2021, which is the snobbish, elitist, ivory tower bias of those who control the classical genre.

[@superblondeDotOrg]

03:00 Dies Irae should be required knowledge for all metalheads. Seriously it is the most heavy-metal tune of all time. DEATH, FIRE, WRATH, and JUDGEMENT DAY 💀 🔥 🪓 ☠️ Doesn't get more metal than that! 🤘

[@Hazard33]

I mean personally if it wasn't for the video showing she was on the set of Sabaton & if i only Heard the song. I wouldn't've noticed she was part of it. By soundtrack alone i wouldn't have noticed her.

[@tpike32]

She is legit

[@DennisTrovato]

I actually know her from My Little Pony first. Edit: Holy shit, you too? 😂

[@angellesambre1]

I believe it is pronounced "Deez Ee-ray" and it is a Latin hymn going back hundreds of years. If I remember correctly, it refers to the coming day of the wrath of God. Fun fact, in one of the Anne Rice book vampire books.... I want to say where LeStat originally meets the vampires of Paris? They are a group of nihilists who are dancing to this before going out to feed for the night.

[@user-bv9rp4ph1t]

Hello

[@johannesbeck8553]

00:10 guess i'm living under a rock

[@conanmcgrath7628]

If you think shes good then you need to check out the violinist in Unlucky Morpheus

[@briansimpson8116]

Comment, comment.

[@thedanksavatron7782]

She very talented & the 🍒 on top is she's a total smoke show!

[@jeekyboi9564]

Cringe

[@MeTuLHeD]

@@jeekyboi9564 Cringe?

[@jeekyboi9564]

@@MeTuLHeD simping - A class B cringe known to pervade incels and other men with no women in their life so they resort to hounding females they find attractive by giving unnecessary compliments or degrading them based on their perceived attractiveness.

[@stratluvr]

she's cool but I like other Tina a lot better, would be great if you let us know what is up with her ,(talking about Tina S)

[@mike5177]

I just checked out the Slayer cover. Almost seems like a parody.

[@garysanders3193]

I have a couple of her cd's and I will always back her up!

[@nuharaf]

Wonder how many hours she practice a day

[@JRoss-zxzx]

"the deal"? She is very talented, very clever, very attractive, and very in demand. That's the deal

[@harislade6676]

Cello is heavy man.

[@MRX-ur7kf]

She is a HOT LOOKIN BOOM BOOM.... That's what I think! 😁

[@keithsmith9889]

My little pony!! Rotflmao! Love it yes a pretty face with some amazing skill

[@tob564]

Oh no, not the Bumblebee...

[@russellmcgovern7783]

I would love to be where that cello! Lol

[@sauerkrautoneverything7807]

I haven't seen a single one of those films. Haha, don't care. All metal heads should be familiar with "Dies irae", not the album. If you think you've never heard of it, you've heard it but didn't know, and will recognize it instantly when shown.

[@TheSaintedOne]

It's pronounced like "disarray".

[@AkersTimothy]

1:28 - "As you can imagine, I'm a huge 'My Little Pony' fan." Bwhahahaha!!!!

[@thebaldshredder]

Me too 😄

[@kainx99]

I could not care _less_ the instrument she is playing, if it sound good, and the music gravitate towards Metal, there is 99% chance that I will dig it. Discrimination on the instrument never created a healthy music scene, we need more experimentation, and she is doing it, and enrich the musical landscape. The haters will hate, that's for sure, but it's their loss.

[@eglide73]

Joe who???

[@scottbagwell9144]

Damnit....I'm bald

[@HelenaHarris]

Ouch! "Is she just another pretty face?" I'm hearing that more and more lately. I was hanging out with a musician recently and he was bashing a female musician friend behind her back saying that she just made it because she was a pretty face. I wanted to tell him that girl he was bashing is such a better musician than him. Why does that question have to be asked? I never hear women go "Is he just another pretty face?" It does go both ways. There are so many guys who hit the level they are because women looked at them as being hot. Can you imagine the level of success if a lot of those 80s glam bands had ugly singers? Even in the that Motley Crue movie The Dirt, they mentioned how they wanted to find a real ladies man when searching for Vince Neil. I read Lita Ford's book and she mentions the level of difficulty for women in the rock industry because they are not taken seriously. By the way, I didn't take offense by your statement because I know where you are going and you were trying to justify Tina's talent.

[@gcarmen4490]

Shhhh

[@HelenaHarris]

@@gcarmen4490 Shhh?

[@tdlvsabs]

you forgot to mention if shes single?

[@cabbycabby1770]

You make the “pretty face with connections” thing sound like a bad thing. That is 90% of the industry.

[@Catsincages]

Yeah, yeah, I was playing cello with rock bands back in 2006-9, mostly covering Primus/Les Claypool etc... It's a gimmick you'll soon grow tired of I assure you.

[@leicesterblackthorne9699]

If violins and flutes can be used in rock, why not cello?

[@colboysigmax]

Prefer Apocalyptica tbh...The original and best.