{"id":17364,"date":"2014-03-17T00:00:25","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T00:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=17364"},"modified":"2015-02-18T04:32:50","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T04:32:50","slug":"news-gus-g-releases-debut-solo-album-i-am-the-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/news-gus-g-releases-debut-solo-album-i-am-the-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"GUS G. Releases Debut Solo Album \u2018I Am The Fire\u2019 (March 17th, 2014) | News @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

GUS G. Releases Debut Solo Album \u2018I Am The Fire\u2019<\/strong><\/span>
\nMarch 17th, 2014<\/strong><\/span>
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\nThessaloniki, Greece-based guitarist Gus G. \u2013 guitarist for the Ozzy Osbourne band as well as his own group Firewind \u2013 issued debut solo full-length album I Am The Fire<\/em> internationally on March 17th, 2014 through Century Media Records. The label scheduled North American release for the 18th.<\/p>\n

The outing was cut between Los Angeles, California and the axeman’s home country of Greece through the latter half of 2013. Gus G. performed guitar, bass and keyboard duties on I Am The Fire<\/em>. Guests featured included; drummers Jeff Friedl (A Perfect Circle \/ Puscifer \/ Devo) and Daniel Erlandsson (Arch Enemy), bassists David Ellefson (Megadeth), Billy Sheehan (Mr. Big, David Lee Roth) and Marty O’Brien (Tommy Lee \/ We Are The Fallen \/ Lita Ford), and vocalists Mats Lev\u00e9n (Candlemass \/ ex-Yngwie Malmsteen \/ ex-Therion), Blake Allison (Devour The Day), Michael Starr (Steel Panther), Alexia Rodriguez (Eyes Set To Kill), Tom S. Englund (Evergrey), Jacob Bunton (Adler) and Jeff Scott Soto (Tran-Siberian Orchestra \/ Talisman \/ ex-Journey \/ ex-Yngwie Malmsteen).<\/p>\n

Mixing duties were handled by Jay Ruston. I Am The Fire<\/em>\u2019s cover artwork was designed by Gustavo Sazes.<\/p>\n

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The track listing was as follows;<\/p>\n

01. \u2018My Will Be Done\u2019 (featuring Mats Lev\u00e9n)
\n02. \u2018Blame It On Me\u2019 (featuring Mats Lev\u00e9n)
\n03. \u2018I Am The Fire\u2019 (featuring Devour The Day)
\n04. \u2018Vengeance\u2019 (featuring David Ellefson)
\n05. \u2018Long Way Down\u2019 (featuring Alexia Rodriguez)
\n06. \u2018Just Can’t Let Go\u2019 (featuring Jacob Bunton)
\n07. \u2018Terrified\u2019 (featuring Billy Sheehan)
\n08. \u2018Eyes Wide Open\u2019 (featuring Mats Lev\u00e9n)
\n09. \u2018Redemption\u2019 (featuring Michael Starr)
\n10. \u2018Summer Days\u2019 (featuring Jeff Scott Soto)
\n11. \u2018Dreamkeeper\u2019 (featuring Tom S. Englund)
\n12. \u2018End Of The Line\u2019 (featuring Mats Lev\u00e9n) <\/p>\n

Title track \u2018I Am The Fire\u2019 was digitally released as a single on February 25th, 2014 in North America. Directed by Patric Ullaeus of Revolver Film Company, music videos were filmed for the title track, \u2018My Will Be Done\u2019, and \u2018Eyes Wide Open\u2019. Also, a performance video was released for the song \u2018Blame It On Me\u2019.<\/p>\n

In its first week of release, I Am The Fire<\/em> sold roughly 700 copies in the United States. Also, the record landed at position 27 on the Greek album chart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GUS G. Releases Debut Solo Album \u2018I Am The Fire\u2019 March 17th, 2014 Thessaloniki, Greece-based guitarist Gus G. \u2013 guitarist for the Ozzy Osbourne band as well as his own group Firewind \u2013 issued debut solo full-length album I Am The Fire internationally on March 17th, 2014 through Century Media Records. The label scheduled North […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1063],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gus-g-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17364"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24068,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17364\/revisions\/24068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}