Eric Calderone

Eric Calderone is an American guitarist and YouTuber. Calderone is best known for some of his videos on his YouTube channel "331Erock" in which he performs electric guitar renditions of songs from pop culture.

Background and career Calderone began playing an electric guitar in 2001 at the age of sixteen. He learned about musical orchestrations as a student at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. He then digitally added drum sections with layered recordings of his lessons. After adding an element of bass and sometimes other optional instruments such as electronic musical synthesizers, he played a real time version of his cover, followed by an audio mastering phase. He has since then uploaded some videos of himself playing well-known songs (such as the Gotye and Kimbra song "Somebody That I Used to Know", the Carly Rae Jepsen song "Call Me Maybe" and the Psy song "Gangnam Style") as well as also recreating music from television shows (such as Attack on Titan, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Pokémon and Game of Thrones), movie series (such as the three Star Wars movie trilogies and The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy) and video games (such as Super Mario Bros. and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim).

In 2018, Calderone formed the band Riptide with YouTuber and musician Anthony Vincent.

One of his most popular videos was his cover of the Disney song "Let It Go" (from Disney's 2013 animated musical fantasy film Frozen).

Awards In 2013, Calderone received the "Dimebag Darrell Shredder Award" at the Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards.

Discography Full-length albums No More Heroes (2012) Deadlights (2015)

Extended plays Hollywood Shred (2010) Comics Meets Metal (2015)

Compilation albums Meets Metal Vol. 1 (The Early Year) (2015) Movies Meet Metal Vol. 1 (2015) The 80s Meet Metal (2015) Movies Meet Metal Vol. 2 (2015) Video Games Meet Metal (2015) Pop Meets Metal Vol. 1 (2015) Pop Meets Metal Vol. 2 (2015) Video Games Meet Metal Vol. 2 (2015) Youtube Meets Metal Various Vids (2015) Youtube Hits Meets Metal (2015)