Guitar Heroes - set your fingers on fire
11 of the most respected and talented Finnish heavy metal guitarists
gathered together into the studio to record a killer album for
everyone who loves virtuous playing and guitar solos from outer space.
With internationally acclaimed shredders like Alexi Laiho and Roope
Latvala (Children of Bodom), Timo Tolkki (Stratovarius) and Emppu
Vuorinen (Nightwish) showing their skills, the album will certainly attract
every metal fan and guitar enthusiastic all around the globe.
All of the 11 players composed a new, instrumental song for this album
and for this album only. On top of that, there's one "battle song"
where each fastfinger has a solo spot to show off his skills. Even
though the album is based on heavy metal and hard rock, it is quite
amazing to notice how many different styles are represented, and how
much the songs differ from each other. Every single guitar player was
free to express his creativity with no limitations. You can really
hear it on the tracks how much fun guitar playing can be when freedom
of creativity and virtuosity are taken to the highest level.
Finland has a long history in heavy metal and it is often considered
as one of the leading metal countries in the world with bands like
e.g. CoB, Stratovarius, Sonata Arctica, Nightwish and HIM. There has
been a strong unity among the metal bands since the mid 80´s and many
of the guitar players here asked the same question: "Why hasn't anyone
thought of this before?"
GUITAR HEROES will be released in Finland on Nov. 7th 2007 by SONY BMG
MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT (FINLAND) OY.
Guitar players appearing on the album are:
Timo Tolkki, Stratovarius
Alexi Laiho, Children of Bodom
Roope Latvala, Children of Bodom
Emppu Vuorinen, Nightwish
Esa Holopainen, Amorphis
Nino Laurenne, Thunderstone
Mr Crab, Bleak
Mikko Salovaara, Kiuas
Tuomo Louhio, Impaled Nazarene
Sakari Hietala, Tarot
Euge Valovirta, Godsplague
Other musicians appearing on this special album are also well known
metal aficionados e.g. Lauri Porra, bass (Stratovarius), Kai Hahto,
drums (Wintersun, Rotten Sound), Jaska Raatikainen, drums (Children of
Bodom) Tommi Lillman, drums and Mirka Rantanen, drums (Thunderstone).
