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Saturday, June 28th 2008
FIREWIND Completes Successful North American Tour
The Greek metal sensation, FIREWIND, have just completed their most
successful run of North America as part of the massive “Tyranny and
Bloodshred” tour package, which was hailed as one of the best
guitar-shredder packages of the year. This crushing trek also featured
labelmates Arch Enemy, Dark Tranquillity and Divine Heresy. This was the
group’s first stateside run in support of their critically acclaimed new
album, The Premonition, which features the hit tracks, “Mercenary Man”
and “Head Up High.” Head over to www.myspace.com/firewind to view the
video for “Mercenary Man,” which was shot by acclaimed director Patric
Ullaeus (Dimmu Borgir, In Flames).
The young guitar sensation Gus G. (ex-Dream Evil, Nightrage, Mystic
Prophecy, Arch Enemy) further comments in regards to the tour’s success:
“Just wanted to check in and let you know that we arrived home safely
from our massive North American tour! Overall, this tour took us through
30 cities, 16 of those being a part of the ‘Tyranny and Bloodshred’
package. After those dates we jumped straight into another 14 shows
together with Dark Tranquillity and Divine Heresy.
“We had great times on this tour and we want to thank Arch Enemy, DT and
DH as well as our great crew and everyone who was involved into making
this happen. Last but not least, thanks to all our American fans for
their true support and dedication, we will be back soon.
“Right after the last show in Springfield, Virginia, we flew out to
England to play the UK’s premier metal festival, Download! We landed in
London the morning after; totally jet lagged, jumped into a van and
drove straight to the festival. The excitement was huge and we couldn’t
wait to finally rock Donington! So, on Friday the 13th @ 3:05 we hit the
3rd stage of Download and it was damn packed, with thousands of people
chanting our name. We definitely didn’t expect such a warm welcome. It
was an amazing feeling and a big dream coming true. I am very proud that
we were the first Metal band from Greece to ever play Donington. We will
see you all soon.”
Gus just posted the second installment of his new instructional guitar
series online at http://youtube.com/watch?v=WaEsWoPMEVs and in this
episode Gus runs through some riffs from the album’s lead off track
“Into The Fire.” Stay tuned for new episodes featuring vocal lessons
from Apollo, drum lessons from Mark and keyboard lessons from Bob, which
should be posted over the next couple of months.