REVIEW: Joe Satriani ‘Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards’ guitarnoize review

Check out this great song-by-song review of Joe Satriani’s ‘Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards’ from Jon over at guitarnoize.com.

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CHECK IT OUT: Steve Vai Rare Photo Archive

Recently posted up on Vai.com some great old rare photos of Steve Vai:

INTERVIEW: Joe Satriani ‘Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards’ Premier Guitar Interview

Check out this cool interview with Joe Satriani in the latest edition of Premier Guitar talking about his upcoming album ‘Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards’ as well as chatting about the next Chickenfoot album and gear:

Tell me about how the process began with Black Swans And Wormhole Wizards?

It started with John Cuniberti, my longtime co-producer and good friend. He came over and helped me redesign my studio. We turned my studio around 180 degrees and put up a lot of sound dampening stuff. He did a real professional job with it to get the room to be as dead as possible. I repositioned my desk, I upgraded all my Pro Tools, got a new screen, started using my Meyer HD-1, and I got rid of all my old keyboards and my V-Drum set, which is what I used to build my demos. I started doing everything with Native Instruments and BFD. It really helped my demo process.

Coming back from the Experience Hendrix tour in March, I was able to crank out lots of demos really fast. It didn’t slow down my writing process, which was what my old system was doing. The upgrade really helped. The room sounded great. I could work in it for eight or ten hours and my ears would never get tired. I wound up writing a lot of songs and had two months to get all the demos together for the guys. I wound up doing about sixty percent of the guitars or more at home, and some of the keyboard work as well.

VIDEO: Mattias ‘IA’ Eklundh Warming up

Old video this but I hadn’t seen it before ( thanks to Jean-Loup and Alexis of guitarschoolgarden.fr for tweeting about it )

Fantastic video of Mattias Eklundh warming up prior performing the Beethoven Triple Concerto with Jonas Hellborg, Patrik Jablonski and the Vasteras Chamber Orchestra:

VIDEO: Joe Satriani “Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards” video podcast

Just posted on Satch’s facebook page first installment of a new video podcast where Joe will talk about each song from the upcoming “Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards” album.

Tune into www.satriani.com each day or subscribe via iTunes until the album release date on October 5th.

DVD: The Big 4 concert on DVD!

I wish I could have been there but this is the next best thing!

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Release Date: October 29 (Northern Europe), November 1 (Rest of the World), November 2 (N. America)
Available on DVD, Blu-Ray, and Deluxe DVD Set

Track Listing:

METALLICA

1) Creeping Death
2) Fuel
3) For Whom The Bell Tolls

4) Harvest Of Sorrow

5) Fade To Black

6) That Was Just Your Life

7) Cyanide

8 ) Sad But True

9) Welcome Home (Sanitarium)

10) All Nightmare Long

11) One

12) Master Of Puppets

13) Blackend

14) Nothing Else Matters

15) Enter Sandman

16) Am I Evil? (with all four bands together)

17) Hit The Lights

18) Seek & Destroy

SLAYER

1) World Painted Blood

2) Jihad

3) War Ensemble

4) Hate Worldwide

5) Seasons In The Abyss

6) Angel Of Death

7) Beauty Through Order

8 ) Discipline

9) Mandatory Suicide

10) Chemical warfare

11) South Of Heaven

12) Raining Blood

MEGADETH

1) Holy Wars…The Punishment Due

2) Hangar 18

3) Wake Up Dead

4) Head Crusher

5) In My Darkest Hour

6) Skin O’ My Teeth

7) A Tout Le Monde

8 ) Hook In Mouth

9) Trust

10) Sweating Bullets

11) Symphony Of Destruction

12) Peace Sells/Holy Wars reprise

ANTHRAX

1) Caught In A Mosh

2) Got The Time

3) Madhouse

4) Be All, End All

5) Antisocial

6) Indians/Heaven And Hell

7) Medusa

8 ) Only

9) Metal Thrashing Mad

10) I Am The Law

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