Sons Of Apollo / former Guns N' Roses guitarist Rob "Bumblefoot" Thal recently spoke with Guitar World about rediscovering his love for progressive music. Following is an excerpt from the story.

Bumblefoot: "Getting back into a progressive situation, it re-lit that fire in me, and I had a chance where I could play a little more outside and do things that wouldn’t have been appropriate for straighter music. I think I forgot how much I loved playing progressive music."

"At this point, we (Sons Of Apollo) have written together, and we have recorded together, and we have toured together - we've spent a year in the trenches together. It was a more comfortable process where we knew what to expect; we had our rhythm down as far as how we do things, because we’ve been through it before with the first album."

Read the complete story here.

On April 14th, Bumblefoot released a new instrumental track entitled "Planetary Lockdown". Check it out below, purchase it via Bumblefoot's Bandcamp page.

MMXX, the new album from Sons Of Apollo - which also features former Dream Theater members Mike Portnoy and Derek Sherinian, Billy Sheehan (The Winery Dogs, Mr. Big, David Lee Roth) and Jeff Scott Soto (ex-Journey, ex-Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force) - is available as a standard CD package, Limited Edition 2 CD package (which includes instrumental mixes and a cappella excerpts), 2 LP + CD package, and on all digital formats. Order here.

MMXX tracklisting:

"Goodbye Divinity"
"Wither To Black"
"Asphyxiation"
"Desolate July"
"King Of Delusion"
"Fall To Ascend"
"Resurrection Day"
"New World Today"

"Asphyxiation" lyric video:

"Desolate July" video:

"Fall To Ascend" video:

"Goodbye Divinity" video: