Kris Norris, former lead guitarist for DARKEST HOUR and now with STRAIGHT LINE STITCH, has uploaded a couple of audio samples for songs he's writing for the band.

Says Kris: "So after a few beers and jamming the tunes with my buddies, we figured let's let everyone hear what's going on, why hype up a new CD, lets get everyone involved. Here's what I'm writing and here is where we are trying to take the band. I figure with the current state of the industry, lets get everyone involved, so tell me, what do you like what do you not like on the new riffs. That doesn't mean I'm going to change anything, but for fuck's sake, let's get everyone involved again and make music what it once was."

Check out the audio samples below:

Sept 7 No. 1 by Kris Norris

Sept 7 No. 2 With Orchestra for a Joke by Kris Norris

Norris teaches three times a week and has over hundreds of hours of video on Jamplay.com. He is now offering a free seven day trial which you can sign up for at this location.

Other teachers on the site include Emil Werstler (DAATH), Tosin Abasi (ANIMALS AS LEADERS), Jim Malone (ARSIS), Doc Coyle (GOD FORBID), and Flattus Maximus (GWAR).

Straight Line Stitch will be touring the UK as special guests to LACUNA COIL on the Italian group’s extensive Darkness Rising tour this November.

This will the first time that Straight Line Stitch – fronted by powerful vocalist Alexis Brown – have toured the UK, having previously only appeared at this year’s Download event.

The full list of dates is as follows:

November

2 - Nottingham, England - Rescue Rooms
3 - Stoke On Trent, England - Sugarmill
4 - Sheffield, England - Corporation
5 - Birmingham, England - Institute Library
7 - Newcastle Upon Tyne, England - Newcastle University
8 - Glasgow, Scotland - King Tuts
9 - Aberdeen, Scotland - Lemon Tree
10 - Dundee, Scotland - The Doghouse
12 - Manchester, England - Academy 2
13 - Cardiff, England - CF10
14 - Exeter, England - Phoenix
16 - Brighton, England - Concorde 2
17 - Folkestone, England - Quarterhouse
18 - Bournemouth, England - Old Fire Station
20 - Colchester, England - Colchester Arts Center
21 - Northampton, England - Road Menders
22 - London, England - ULU
23 - Oxford, England - O2 Academy

Prior to Download, the band had their latest studio album, The Fight Of Our Lives, released via Spinefarm Records.

Produced and mixed by the Grammy-nominated Johnny K (DISTURBED, MACHINE HEAD, etc.), this latest release – the follow-up to 2008’s When Skies Wash Ashore – features 11 brand new compositions, including first single/video ‘Conversion’; however, the UK version of the album also includes two bonus studio tracks, previously unreleased.

Armed with new guitarist Norris (replacing Pat Pattison), SLS – completed by Seth Thacker (guitar), Jason White (bass) and Kanky Lora (drums) – will support this return to the UK with new single/video ‘Ashes In The Wind’, which will be released via Spinefarm on October 31st.