Guitar Heroes

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).