This 10-year-old grunter Nova Huijben recently showed her amazing talent on the stage of Game of Talents on national TV in Belgium (VTM) and in The Netherlands (RTL4).
Nova started taking grunt lessons in April the year before and vocal coach Monica Janssen van Wisselkind - Creative Coaching via Zoom. Monica is also a singer with the bands X-Tinxion and Downcast Collision.
In the 10 months since then, she has not only been in a TV studio but also in a real recording studio. Where she collaborated with Monica, Sander Gommans (After Forever, HDK) and other talented musicians on a new Magic-O-Metal song, which will be released later this year.
Listen to the track Picu from the album Enter The Metal Realm
Inspired by KISS, Sonia picked up the bass guitar at the age of 14. A year later she started playing guitar as well. She is a self-taught musician.
Her extreme taste developed at the age of 17, and as a bassist, she joined many local metal acts and played various shows internationally with brutal deathmetal band Sepiroth. With deathmetal band Ecocide she released Where the Stars Align.
At the age of 19 she joined her first band as a guitarist, the all-girl heavymetal band Burning Witches. With them, she released the Wings of Steel EP, full-length albums Hexenhammer and Dance With The Devil, and toured internationally, playing huge festivals such as Wacken Open Air, Sweden Rock, Summer Breeze and many more.
In 2019, Sonia founded her own heavy metal band Cobra Spell in which she currently plays lead-guitar. Together with Fernanda and Luana (both former Nervosa members, Sonia started Crypta to go back to her extreme roots on lead-guitar duty. In 2020, Sonia decided to leave Burning Witches due to personal reasons and to focus on Crypta and Cobra Spell.
Music: Cavaleras UK
Influences: Anything & Everything that involves a guitar!
When did you start playing and why: When I was 12 I played way too much Playstation, so my parents got me some guitar lessons and I swapped one obsession for another - thanks Mum and Dad!
Influences: Metal & Classical - Van Halen, Jason Becker, Marty Friedman, Bach and many more.
I started playing at 8 or 9 years old. I always been attracted by the guitar. When I discovered Hard Rock and Metal I said myself : Damn, I have to play like these guys someday haha.
Influences: Hendrix, Rhoads, Dime, Kiko.
I started it a lot of years ago, because I wanted to be a better person.
Music: Forever Seeger
Music: Josh Gordon band
Influences: I have MANY guitar influences, but my main ones are: Kirk Hammett, Slash, Jimmy Page, Eddie Van Halen, Nuno Bettencourt, Steve Vai, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Albert King, Danny Gatton, Roy Buchanan.
I started fooling around on my Mom's old classical guitar around the age of 10, figuring out Elvis and Kinks songs here and there. But I didn't commit to playing and learning until I was 13 years old. I just loved the feel and sound of the guitar at a very young age. I knew I had to pursue it and would be playing guitar for the rest of my life in some manner.
Influences: Marty Friedman, Paul Gilbert, Dimebag, Kiko Loureiro, Steve Vai, Guthrie Govan ... The list goes on and on.
Never really picked up to study the instrument... I was more of a "jam along" kind of a guy. Early 20'ths started listening to heavy metal music because of friends... The energy of the style made me wanna be like these "guitar heroes"... Never really got it... But it has been a lot of fun...
Influences: Randy Rhodes, Dimebag Darrell, Jeff Loomis, Mick Mars, Synyster Gastes, Kirk Hammett.
I started playing because I love music and guitar, it's the strongest connection I have with it.
Music: Rise Of The Dawn
Influences: Steve Harris, Felipe Andreoli and Duca Tambasco
I've started to playing bass in 2015 after a Iron Maiden show and after listened the sound of Steve Harris bass.
Music: Inner Caligula
Influences:
Influences: Dave Mustaine, Chris Broderick, Jeff Loomis, Matt Tuck, Synyster Gates, Dave Murray.
I started playing the guitar, because I've always wanted. Since childhood I've been a huge Iron Maiden fan, and I wanted to be like these guys, and I started when I was 13 I think in 2013.
Music: X-Tinxion
Influences: PanterA, Mike Oldfield, Black Sabbath, Opeth.
When I was about 11 years old. My dad bought a guitar and a bass for my little brothers (since I was playing the drums already), but they weren't driven in music... so I picked up those instruments almost as soon as they got into our house.
Music: Edgardo Moraga
Influences: Marco Sfogli, Steve Lukather, Rick Graham, Buckethead.
I started playing guitar cuz I couldn't play drums without having the cops called on me.
Music:Azkaban [Hybrid Metal]
Influences: Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, John Petrucci, Michael Romeo, Kiko Loureiro.
I have been playing guitar for more than 19 years, I think it was love at first sight after listening to 'The Number Of The Beast' of 'Iron Maiden' and the hard rock music of the 80s, from there I fell in love with the guitar. I currently play guitar with the band Azkaban, who will release their official album this year.
Influences: Gary Moore, Pat McManus, Adrian Smith, all Thin Lizzy guitarists, George Lynch.
I started playing when I was eleven years old. I started playing when my father sat me down on Christmas morning 2005 to listen to the U2 singles CD I bought him. The first song that played was 'I Will Follow'. It blew my mind when my dad told me that's the guitar. I had never thought much of guitar, because I had to go to church with my parents and didn't like it very much. So for my eleventh birthday I got my first guitar and have never looked back!
Music: Coventry
Influences: Dimebag Darrell, Joe Satriani and a little of Kiko Loureiro. When I started to play I developed my own style for my band Coventrymx.
I'm playing guitar since I was 6 years old, because here in my family music is something that we've been through generations.
Music: Phantom Elite
Music: Another Now
Influences: My influences vary a lot and range from Stephen Carpenter of Deftones to Tim Henson of Polyphia.
I started playing when I was 15, after I got totally addicted on Guitar Hero. Before that I didn't even like metal at all so I have Guitar Hero to thank for al this haha.
Influences: I have a lot of influences in a bunch of diffrent music genres. Of course tons of different metal bands. To name a few: Annihilator, Children of Bodom, Testament, Kreator, Metallica, Megadeth, etc.
I play guitar for 12 years now since I was 13.
