5 Min Origin Stories with AK of Special Ops

Once again we are talking to the Montreal Metal Horde of Darkness but still a bit light, Special Ops.

You should be jumping all over their latest SINGLE HERE.

While you're streaming that glorious gold, let's find out more about how they got started.

1. Is there an event you can point to you that made you say, wow, that's the instrument I want to play? Not like guitar or drums, but the reason why you play the model you do?

Yes there definitely is, and I have to thank Ebay for it, yes you can laugh. I was the only guitar player in the band at the time, and we needed to heavy things up, but dropping to lower keys meant losing the higher spectrum of things, so I decided to try a 7 string. 

Classic Spins with Ak Johnson of Special Ops

Let's talk a moment about Montreal based metalers, Special Ops.

If you need some more information, check out their BANDCAMP page.

1. My favorite kind of album is the concept album. The Wall is my absolute favorite. 

Beyond the amazing songs, it has spectacular nostalgia for me. What's your favorite one and why? 

There are a few that stand out. Helloween  -  Keeper of the Seven Keys, Manowar had -  "Achilles, Agony, and Ecstasy in Eight Parts"  that was supposed to be a predecessor of a concept album that never came, but instead in 2007 the band redeemed itself with "Gods of War" that is more focused on Norse Mythology. 

Those guys know their warrior history pretty well. But the most influential concept record to me growing up was WASPs "The Crimson Idol".