Allen Robot Van Wert's instrumental rock CD, Robot, offers a guitar-heavy eighteen tracks of hard rock and shred madness. Van Wert, to his credit, doesn't pick a standard rock groove or two and just shred over them the entire CD - he has injected a great deal of compositional and arrangement diversity into the album, while allowing room to blast shredded licks, rhythmic crunch, and wildly effected lines in their proper places. Then there are his signature 'robot' licks, which have been described as, "...nothing short of a Nintendo gone berserk on hyperdrive. These licks are performed FX free and have been amazing people live and in recordings relentlessly..." (J. Farber). Van Wert has put out a very listenable first release here - the future appears bright for instrumental rock. Instrumental Guitar (Electric (Heavy)/Hard Rock/Shred), total running time, 53:36 - Allen Robot Van Wert @ iTunes!