Fueled by hit single “Say You’ll Haunt Me,” new Stone Sour album Audio Secrecy (Roadrunner Records) entered Billboard’s Top 200 this week at No. 6, making it the second consecutive top ten debut for the 3-time Grammy nominated quintet.
Taylor Guitars has announced that the company will once again bring its fan-favorite Road Show to guitar lovers across the country this fall at over 100 in-store locations in North America.
Just when you thought it was safe to turn out the lights, hard-rocking band Crossfade returns to assault the airwaves and raise harmonic hell. “We All Bleed,” the Columbia, S.C., outfit’s third album, will be released October 26, 2010 on Eleven Seven Music. It’s the voice we remember with the dark songs we relate to set to a new musicality brought by the arrival of guitarist/co-writer and co-producer, Les Hall to the core.
Four-time Grammy nominees Queensryche have signed a multi-album, worldwide deal with Roadrunner/Loud & Proud Records. The band’s label debut –their twelfth studio album overall- is tentatively scheduled for a Spring 2011 release. Singer and founder Geoff Tate remains the creative nucleus of the band, which continues to make relevant, against-the-grain hard rock that entices fans, both new and diehard.
The other members of Dream Theater respond to Mike Portnoy leaving the band.
Megadeth’s Rust In Peace Live Blu-ray, DVD and CD (Shout! Factory), captured on the final night of Megadeth’s historic Rust In Peace 20th anniversary tour at the legendary Hollywood Palladium, is available in stores now.
PAPA ROACH’S TIME FOR ANNIHILATION…ON THE RECORD AND ON THE ROAD DEBUTS AS THE #1 INDEPENDENT ROCK, #23 TOP 200, #4 HARD ROCK AND #5 ALTERNATIVE ALBUM ON BILLBOARD’S CHARTS
Metal God Entertainment and Rob Halford are pleased to announce the release of ‘Halford IV Made Of Metal¹ featuring fourteen (14) new Halford studio recordings debuting world-wide September 27th (UK & EU), September 28th (North America) and October 13, 2010 (Japan).
Here are ten guitar articles from across the blogosphere that caught our attention during the week of August 30th, 2010.
As our article numbers and readership grow, we at Guitar International thought it’d be a good idea to list our most read articles each month for our readers who may not have had the chance to read every article. So here they are. The Top 10 most popular posts on Guitar International for the month of August, 2010.
