The good vibe for FIREWIND’s current album, Few Against Many, continues to spread. Having just recently been presented a Swedish gold award for their latest single, 'Wall Of Sound', Firewind now announce that Few Against Many has re-climbed the official album charts in their native Greece to occupy the #1 position. In fact, the release has stayed on top of the charts for two consecutive weeks already.

Gus G. checked in to comment about the #1 spot as follows: “This is a historical moment for Firewind, as it's our first #1 album and a historical moment for the Greek metal scene, as we're the first metal band from this country to achieve this. Our legions of fans have only been growing in our homeland and together we prove that heavy metal music is strong despite mainstream media's ignorance all these years! Many thanks to everyone for supporting us and catapulting Few Against Many to the top!"

Additionally and in good timing for such announcement, Firewind will be playing some very special Anniversary shows by the end of 2012 in Greece, for which Gus G. adds: “2012 is the 10th year of Firewind in discography. To celebrate this, we will end our touring activities this year with some very special and intimate shows in Greece and more specifically with two shows in Athens and two shows in Thessaloniki. We plan to play different setlists each night and perform several songs of ours we've never done live before. Stay tuned as more info on the dates will be revealed soon!”

More on Firewind, including their live itinerary, at this location.

Gus G. has announced that he will be doing clinics for Blackstar Amplification and ESP Guitars on four select US dates in August. The clinics are free to attend, but we recommend that you arrive early; there are a lot of people who want to get this intimate exchange with Gus, where he’ll be playing tracks from the new Firewind album, answering your questions, and signing autographs.

The dates are as follows:

August

7 - Sam Ash - Carle Place, NY
8 - Chuck Levin?s Washington Music Center - Wheaton, MD
9 - Sam Ash - King of Prussia, PA
10 - Alto Music - Middletown, NY

Gus comments: “I'm really looking forward to going back in the US and do these special clinics, play a bunch of new Firewind material from Few Against Many, show off and talk about my new signature amp and of course meet all the great people that support me! See u soon!”