PlayThisRiff.com, which is owned and operated by Bob Balch from Fu Manchu, have posted a new instructional clip featuring Chris Poland (ex-Megadeth):

"In this guitar lesson video, Chris Poland will show us an exercise for playing outside in E minor (Part 3). This pattern uses a scale similar to a diminished scale, but as usual he puts his own flare on it. Chris will also go into detail about how he begins and ends licks with bends."

Check out the free clip here.

On February 26th, Los Angeles prog-metal outfit Redemption - featuring Nick van Dyk, Ray Alder (Fates Warning, Engine), Sean Andrews, and Chris Quirarte (as well as guitarist Bernie Versailles, who is presently on an indefinite medical hiatus) - released their sixth full-length, The Art Of Loss, via Metal Blade Records worldwide.

The band has launched a video for the album's title track, featuring Chris Poland as a guest guitarist.

Director Brian Cox comments: "It's very easy to dwell on the past. To stew in pain, wishing you could get someone or something back that you may have lost. But in the end, you will always have yourself, no matter how much things might change. Nobody can ever take that from you and that's the message I tried to convey with this video."

Redemption's Nick van Dyk (guitars/keyboards) adds: "We're very excited to have worked with Brian to bring this song to life in this medium. The story of regret, survival, transcendence and the realization that we have the ability to be authors of our own destiny is brought home with the visuals that Brian has directed. Needless to say, it's also surreal to perform with the great Chris Poland. This video is a great representation of what Redemption stands for, musically and thematically."