As previously reported, metal guitar master JOE STUMP will release his ninth solo album entitled Revenge Of The Shredlord through Lion Music on August 17th. He has issued the following update on current activities:

"As I’ve said before, Revenge Of The Shredlord is quite heavy and classically influenced. This one’s all metal from start to finish, very dark and focused with gratuitous amounts of shredding throughout. Also, thanks to the great work of engineer Ducky Carlise and mastering engineer Maor Appelbaum, it’s my best sounding record to date as well. I’ll have some sound clips up in a few weeks.

On another note, I recently finished all the guitars on the new HOLYHELL record entitled Darkness Visible, which will also be released in a few months. It’s a fierce slab of dark, evil metal with tons of vicious riffs and ripping solos. Check out the official HolyHell Facebook page for some cool video clips and info regarding the new record. I’m currently rehearsing with the band as we’re getting ready to head over to Europe to do some live damage on several large festivals over there in the upcoming weeks. The rest of this year will be quite busy as it’s looking like they’ll be a bunch of touring in the pipes, both solo-wise and with HolyHell. I’ll post all the tour dates on the site once they’re confirmed.

Also, in the very near future, I’ll be teaming up with a well-known guitar oriented website and I’ll be offering online guitar lessons. They’ll be one-on-one individual lessons offered via Skype and there’s also the possibility of prepackaged, already shot lessons being available on a variety of topics (arpeggios, alternate/economy picking, harmonic minor/Hungarian minor playing, Baroque pedal tone motifs, classically inspired linear play, etc.). It should turn out to be a very cool thing, so stay tuned."

Revenge Of The Shredlord was engineered and mixed by Grammy award winning engineer Ducky Carlise (BUDDY GUY, JOHNNY WINTER) and mastered by Maor Appelbaum (HALFORD, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN, SEPULTURA) at Appelbaum Mastering.

Revenge Of The Shredlord contains the following 12 songs:

'The Ritual Begins'

'Man Your Battlestations'

'Pistoleros'

'Shredlord's Sonata'

'Master's Prelude'

'In The Master's House'

'The Black Knight's Castle'

'Enter The Coven'

'Evil Beasts Below'

'Strat Outa Hell'

'White Knuckle Mayhem'

'The End Approaches'