Swedish Viking metallers AMON AMARTH are the latest act confirmed for Slovenia’s Metalcamp festival which will take place August 5th – 11th in Tolmin, Slovenia.
According to a press release, “Metalcamp has become THE festival in Europe with the most beautiful location there is. It`s also the first festival offering musical program and entertainment for a whole week. Nowhere else you can so easily and nicely relax, swim, sun bath, drink and hang out and bang your head a few hundred meters away than at Metalcamp Slovenia!”
Available now, the Early Bird Fan package:
7 day festival pass plus MC T-Shirt plus NoiseArt CD including Camping for a price of only 119,00 Euro + pre-sale fee. Limited to 1,000 fan-packs, so get it now at Metalcamp.com. Metalcamp 2012 tickets are limited to 12,000 in total!
MR. BIG guitarist Paul Gilbert has issued the following update:
“Hello!
I am proud to announce The Great Guitar Escape. I have assembled some truly amazing musicians for this guitar camp, to be held in July 2012. For details, please check the website here.
We’re going to have a great time. I’ll see you there!”
The Great Guitar Escape runs from July 9th – 13th, 2012 at the Full Moon Resort in Big Indian, NY. Players of all ages, levels, and styles are welcome at the Great Guitar Escape. Whether you’ve been ripping up the fretboard for years, or you just know a couple of chords, there are plenty of new musical ideas waiting for you here.
From rock to blues to metal to jazz-fusion and more, Paul’s handpicked team of guitarists will give you insight into the techniques, styles, and life of the modern, working musician. The artistic and the practical will come together before your eyes and ears.
In addition to his daily Rock Masterclasses, Paul has set aside additional classes specifically to help the beginning guitarist get on the right track for technique and practicing. These classes (personally taught by Paul) will get your hands on the instrument and get you comfortable with making music in minutes. Paul remembers, “I took my first guitar lessons when I was six years old. My teacher taught me ‘by the book’ and I ended up quitting from boredom and frustration. It was years before I finally started again. I wish I could go back in time and teach myself the basics of how to play the guitar. It would have put me years ahead at such an important time of my life. If guitar is taught the right way, it can be surprisingly easy. No boring excercises. Just music! I’m excited to give you the start, that I wish I had been given.”
Although the focus of the camp is the guitar, there will also be workshops from world-class pros on drums, bass guitar, sound engineering, and guitar tech skills. And every evening you will witness all of these instruments come together for intimate, once-in-a-lifetime jam sessions.
For the list of instructors due to attend the camp, click here.
Gilbert kicked off his latest European guitar clinic in Nice, France on November 8th. Check out footage of Gilbert covering the JUDAS PRIEST classic ‘Hellion/Electric Eye’ featuring his wife Emi on keys. Click here for Gilbert’s complete clinic schedule.
The fourth in a series of webisodes featuring behind-the-scenes footage from DEATHDESTRUCTION‘s current European tour with HAMMERFALL, VICIOUS RUMORS and AMARANTHE can be seen below. Source: Blabbermouth.net
Italian/London based all-female rock meNtal new dark band MAB has issued the following:
“We are so happy to announce that our new album ILLUSION will be out on Thursday the 24th of November. This is a very important moment for us: ILLUSION is the result of such hard work and passion, we have so much to say in the 12 songs contained in the album.”
A twin version of ILLUSION is also available in Italian containing 6 songs and the brand new video of LA VITA (one of the songs in the album), can be viewed below, or directly from MAB’s website: www.mabofficial.com. Another song from ILLUSION “April” is available on www.soundcloud.com/mabofficial.
From the 24th of November ILLUSION will be available on itunes and amazon, but you can get a beautiful hard copy of the CD on our website: http://www.mabofficial.com/fr_presale.cfm
More exciting news are yet to come together with new merchandise and tour dates!
STAY TUNED!!
In this excerpt of a recent interview with TheGauntlet.com, TESTAMENT guitarist Alex Skolnick talks about stage presence and production, jazz, and what it was like to be a student of JOE SATRIANI:
Q: Did you start playing jazz guitar?
A: “No, not until later. I was a very advanced rock player for my age. I listened to a lot of VAN HALEN and Randy [Rhoads] and then YNGWIE MALMSTEEN. And then one of the next important players happened to be my teacher, Joe Satriani. I was with him for about two years when I was fourteen. I was an advanced player for my age but didn’t have a jazz background. I think it wasn’t until I was eighteen that I first heard MILES DAVIS and it really struck a chord with me.”
Q: So Satriani took you in at fourteen? How did he find you?
A: “I found him. He was probably the busiest guitar teacher at Berkley and definitely the most respected. Everybody knew about him. He was in his mid to late twenties but all these younger players in their early twenties who were starting to get attention came from him. He was very feared. He was very strict and very serious. He definitely had a reputation for refusing to teach students that wouldn’t practice enough. It was a bit of a bold move to take lessons from him.”
Q: Metal back then was thought of as music for people of lesser intelligence. Did Satriani shake his head in dis-approvement when you joined Testament?
A: “I asked him about it and he thought it was a good idea for me to join Testament He thought it would probably be temporary. At the time I had no idea if I’d stick with the band or if it even made sense. Then things started going places. He wasn’t really unfamiliar with that genre of music anyways. Kirk Hammett from METALLICA studied with him, and the guys from EXODUS would occasionally drop in for lessons. He was very supportive. The fact that he’s Italian, it was like going to the Godfather for permission [laughs].”
Scottish Pirate Metalers, ALESTORM have announced the UK and Ireland tour for 2012. “In February 2012 we’ll be hitting the road for our biggest headlining UK tour EVER, including our first ever shows in Ireland! Along with us will be our Australian buddies CLAIM THE THRONE, who are really good at getting drunk.” the band claimed.
Kimmo Kuusniemi’s ASA unveil the long-overdue release of "Collective Failure" + first music video for title-track! Check it out and stay tuned for more news! Click image to watch the video
Kimmo Kuusniemi’s SARCOFAGUS return with a Historic 2010 Concert Video Premiere on YouTube! Click image to watch the video
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