FIREWIND Working On New Material

July 17, 2009

Guitarist Gus G. of Greek metallers FIREWIND has issued the following update:

"The past few months for us have been really great. We decided to do select shows and festivals in 2009 so that we can concentrate on writing new material.

"So in May we embarked on a six-date U.K./Ireland tour together with STRATOVARIUS and EDEN'S CURSE. All gigs were great and we already miss our U.K. fans right now…but we'll be back in U.K. and Ireland in 2010, that's for sure!

"So, straight out of the final gig with STRATO and into the festival mood, we played a bunch of great festivals like Metal Dayz (Switzerland),Rock Hard (Germany),Graspop (Belgium) for the second year in a row and Tuska (Finland). Then we played a very special show in Greece (and the only one for the rest of the year). We played with the SCORPIONS and DOKKEN at Creta Festival which took place in the beautiful island of Crete. I'm sure all good tourists know where that is.

"Not only did we use special pyro for that show, but I also ended up joining my idols, SCORPIONS, on stage and played 'Rock You Like A Hurricane'!!! This was beyond my imagination and I sure wasn't dreaming! I thank the SCORPIONS for being so nice to us and for the once-in-a-lifetime invitation to play with them; I'll never forget it!

"We're now ready to do the final three shows of the summer — Unirock in Turkey, Summer Breeze in Germany and finally Ilha do Ermal festival in Portugal."

Regarding FIREWIND's upcoming recording plans, Gus said, "While we've been doing all these select shows this year, we concentrated mainly on writing new material. I can tell you right now that we have 12 great vocal songs and two instrumentals. While it's too early to know what will end up on the album, all of us in the band are very pleased with the demos and pre-production we did and we are positive that we're creating the best album of our career so far!

"We're planning to enter the studio this autumn and looking into possibilities of who will be mixing our new album.

"As for the material itself, I'd say it's what our fans would expect from us. Powerful rock/metal anthems with cool riffs and memorable vocal lines from Apollo [Papathanasio], but also some faster and more technical stuff is on there. We also wrote a very challenging instrumental song. It will have a fusion of styles and advanced playing from all of us.

"Needless to say, the guitar will shred like never before!"

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