FIREWIND: Festival Recap Webisode Now Online

Thursday, 22nd August 2013 By Dead Rhetoric

FIREWIND, featuring guitarist Gus G. (OZZY OSBOURNE), have posted a video re-cap of the band’s trip to UK’s Bloodstock Open Air, which can now be viewed below.

With a playing time of 69 minutes, Apotheosis – Live 2012 is a great overview of the band’s career so far, which consists of seven studio albums. It also marks FIREWIND’s final release with singer Apollo Papathanasio, who decided to leave the group at the end of last year. He has since been replaced by Kelly Sundown Carpenter (ADAGIO, BEYOND TWILIGHT) as session frontman for all 2013 live activities.

Stated Gus G.: “Apotheosis = the glorification of a subject to a divine level. That is the word that came to my mind while thinking of how I could best describe the feeling and the vibe of those four anniversary shows we played in our homeland Greece and our last European headline tour in 2012! So that had to be our live album’s title. You can feel the energy on these recordings, you can hear the screams of the most hardcore fans and the FIREWIND chants… it’s all there. No doubt about it, it’s the sheer love from our fans and supporters that has kept us alive and strong for 10 years and we wanted to celebrate all that with this album. We recorded all those shows, chose the best performances and now we can’t wait to release this one!”