24 Facts About Michael Romeo

Michael James Romeo was born on March 6,1968 and is an American musician, best known as the guitarist, founding member, and main songwriter of the progressive metal group Symphony X He is one of two members to appear on every Symphony X release.

Michael Romeo is known for his unique style of tapping.

Michael Romeo's parents owned a piano, and a piano teacher would visit the house once per week.

Michael Romeo became serious about the guitar around the age of 12, after listening to the albums Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman by Ozzy Osbourne, and would subsequently be heavily influenced by the neoclassical technique and style of Randy Rhoads.

Michael Romeo has listed a number of individual players as influences to his style of playing, but considers Rhoads, Al Di Meola, Yngwie Malmsteen, and Uli Jon Roth to be his primary influences.

Michael Romeo is a fan of composers of film scores, such as Bernard Herrmann and Hans Zimmer.

In particular, Michael Romeo has been influenced by the works of John Williams.

Michael Romeo's first serious guitar was a white Kramer Pacer, and he has used Fender Stratocasters.

Michael Romeo began his career with Symphony X using ESP M-II Deluxe guitars with EMG Active pickups, and later switching to the DiMarzio Tone Zone and X2N pickups.

In 2005, Michael Romeo was introduced to Caparison by Henrik Danhage of Evergrey.

Caparison developed a custom model Dellinger Prominence-MJR, which Michael Romeo has since used as his primary guitar.

Michael Romeo has played a Dellinger Prominence 7, which can be heard on War of the Worlds, Pt.

Michael Romeo has continued to use ENGL's Fireball and Powerball amplifiers in the studio and for live performances.

In 1999, Michael Romeo provided all guitar and bass parts on The Last Viking, the third studio album from Johansson brothers Jens and Anders.

In 2000, Michael Romeo played a guest solo on the song "Dawn of a Million Souls" from Ayreon's album Universal Migrator Part 2: Flight of the Migrator.

In 2002, Michael Romeo provided guitar parts for five songs from Kotipelto's Waiting for the Dawn.

Michael Romeo would go on to provide guitar work on seven songs from their 2004 followup, Coldness.

In 2004, Michael Romeo contributed guitar work for Vitalij Kuprij on his song "Piano Overture" from the album Forward and Beyond.

In 2005, Michael Romeo provided guitar, bass and orchestration for eight songs from Symphony X bandmate Russell Allen's solo debut, Atomic Soul.

In 2007, Michael Romeo arranged orchestral parts for the album Beautiful Tragedy by American band In This Moment.

In 2009, Michael Romeo composed and recorded orchestral parts for "The Discovery" and "Gaia " on God Forbid's album Earthsblood.

Symphony X bandmate Michael Romeo Pinnella contributed to two songs on the release.

Michael Romeo made a guest appearance on the new Pat Gesualdo album, Iceland.

In early 2018, Michael Romeo announced the release of a new full-length solo album called War of the Worlds, Pt.