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    GONE WITH THE WIND

    Aug 10, 2020 5 minutes
    WORDS BY MATT DORIA.

    Since their cataclysmic breakthrough at the turn of the 21st century, the Greek power-metallers in Firewind have been at the forefront of heavy music’s most manic and monolithic high-points. Their first eight studio albums were met with universal acclaim, and despite having one of the loosest lineups in metal history (there are thrice as many ex-members as there are active ones), each new iteration of Firewind seems to be even tighter and more tempestuous than the last.

    As the sole founding member (and the core architect behind their sound since the earliest demos), axeman Gus G is effectively the key to Firewind’s success – his work on the fretboard is some of the metal genre’s most deft and dynamic, and such has never been more evident than

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