ADAGIO guitarist Stéphan Forté is currently in the studio working on the composition of his instrumental solo album.

He states, "It's been a very long time that I wanted to do this. I started to work on the first ideas a couple of years ago and am now spending 100% of my working time on it. So far, 7 songs are composed and today I am in the middle of the 8th one. It will be around 9 songs I guess.

Musically, it's very shred, dark and neoclassical oriented. The metal influences goes from shredders such as CACOPHONY (Becker and Friedman), HAJI'S KITCHEN, Derek Taylor, Scott Stine etc., to bands like MESHUGGAH, DREAM THEATER.

There's a lot of Middle Eastern, Indian and Japanese traditional music elements mixed with a classical influences, going from romantic (Chopin, Liszt, etc.) to some more contemporary composers such as Bartok, Prokofiev, Messiaen, Penderecki etc.

And of course it's massively heavy. My Lâg is tuned down to A, and I might now use this for Adagio as well !!"

Stay tuned for further updates.

Earlier this month, Adagio posted their sixth tour diary online. Watch the video below.

The video contains exclusive footage from Barcelona and Madrid during the band’s KAMELOT tour. It follows the band back stage, live and in the bus during their Spanish adventure.

As previously reported, Adagio will perform at the FKRock Festival in Kherson, Ukraine on May 21st.

According to the band, "the show will be entirely filmed in HD as we're planning to release a DVD sometime next year. So far, we have a lot of video footage featuring some cool live stuff and above all, some very crazy moments, particularly in Japan and Spain. Of course, shows with Mats (Levén; ex-YNGWIE MALMSTEEN, THERION) are awesome, we have had loads of fun together, both on stage and off stage."

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