Richard Bichler, RichaadEB (\ri-shaad-e-b\) is a metal guitarist who records, produces and composes various themed covers and originals. He began uploading music to his YouTube channel in 2013; he most notably gained traction with his series of Undertale covers in 2015. His metal cover of Megalovania became one of the most watched videos on his channel which currently sits at 13+ million views.
He released an official Undertale Dual-Album co-written and co-produced with Amie Waters titled “Determination”, which topped bandcamp charts for several weeks. Rich's side of the album featured metal renditions of Undertale Boss Themes. The follow-up album “Determination: Purple Side” was subsequently released in 2016.
In 2017 he began releasing Touhou covers, his most popular cover being an English Metal version of the song “Bad Apple” featuring Cristina "Vee" Valenzuela, which currently has 20+ million views, overtaking Megalovania as the most viewed video on the channel. It features lyrics written by Cristina and producer Pat McCarthy.
Rich has since released two Touhou Project metal cover albums, Bullet Hell and Bullet Hell 2. In 2021 he was featured in a collaboration with the mobile video game company behind Touhou LostWord, an official mobile RPG based on Team Shanghai Alice's Touhou Project.
Rich’s covers of two themes from the game (“Lost Word Chronicle” and “Night-Splitting Light) are now featured on Touhou LostWord’s Official YouTube Channel, as well as downloadable tracks within the game itself.
Rich has been commissioned for music by several well known companies and influencers. He has contributed music to Call of Duty: Black Ops III and Call of Duty Black Ops IV in collaboration with composer Jack Wall. Rich has also worked with indie video game developer WayForward, composing the main theme of their 2D run-‘n’-gun action game Spidersaurs. The main theme features lyrics written and performed by Cristina Valenzuela and Jason Charles Miller. In addition, Richaad is also featured on the Soundtrack for River City Girls Zero, where he has a guest solo on the game's main theme song "Get Ready For The River City Girls" and also performed guitars and a solo for the title theme of River City Girls 2, “River City Girls Too” written by Megan McDuffee.
In 2022, he wrote the intro theme song for popular EN Vtuber Snuffy, called “The Midnight Mass” and later that year composed a theme for Vshojo Vtuber Apricot (Froot)’s 2.0 re-debut called “The Lich’s Nocturne”. Then K9Kuro, Vshojo’s first male Vtuber commissioned a theme for their debut starting screen titled, “Cerberus”.
As a guitarist he is best known for his intricate, precise and fast playing. Dragonforce guitarist Herman Li has described his playing as “very economical and accurate”, as well as “eye-popping and dizzying”. Over the years he has collaborated with many other guitarists, vocalists, influencers and musicians. RichaadEB has appeared on a multitude of albums as a guest musician worldwide.
Rich was featured on the single "Damage Done" produced by Multi-Platinum Record Producer Howard Benson and singer-songwriter, producer, and frequent collaborator Jonathan Young as well as Three Days Grace drummer Neil Sanderson.
Rich has contributed guitar work to a multitude of original viral songs by popular singer, songwriter and music producer CG5 ("I See A Dreamer", "SUPERSTAR", "Phoenix of the Sea", etc...)
In 2018 he performed live at Metrocon 2018 alongside fellow musicians Jonathan Young and Caleb Hyles and at San Japan 2018 with Caleb Hyles, Will of DAGames, CG5 and Or3o.
Richaad prefers using his Ernie Ball Music Man Majesty, Mayones Regius 6, PRS Custom 24, and Jericho Walnut Fusion Baritone 6 for his primary guitars.
The RichaadEB YouTube channel has over 279 million+ views total and 600k+ current subscribers.
The channel is known for its striking performance based music videos, filmed and edited by RichaadEB's partner, Rachel E.B. The couple currently reside in Southern California with their cat, producing and creating music and videos full time.
