You can also send an e-mail to with pertinent details. To do so, click the downward arrow on the top-right corner of the Facebook comment (the arrow is invisible until you roll over it) and select the appropriate action. To report spam or any abusive, obscene, defamatory, racist, homophobic or threatening comments, or anything that may violate any applicable laws, use the "Report to Facebook" and "Mark as spam" links that appear next to the comments themselves. User comments or postings do not reflect the viewpoint ofÄoes not endorse, or guarantee the accuracy of, any user comment. Once you're logged in, you will be able to comment. Story or review, you must be logged in to an active personal account on Facebook. That's something I wanted to avoid on 'Quantum Leap' and I think I succeeded in doing that." "The classic are the classics, but very rarely do I get into them because after the third track it just seems like an endless guitar solo where everything that sounds the same. "I'm a guitar player and I cannot stand most instrumental guitar albums," he adds.
So the playing isn't always about technique, and once I found the formula it was easier to create melodies for the record." I knew that if I just kept the playing technical it wasn't going to be enjoyable. "I really needed to have the guitar taking a vocal approach. "When I first wrote 'Exosphere', for example, there were so many things going on in the track but it wasn't saying anything," says Gus. He found himself falling into the loop of overplaying a few times during the production because of the lack of vocals, but was able to overcome the problem once he acknowledged it. In this respect, writing "Quantum Leap" was a challenge because he is so used to writing in a specific formula utilizing vocals. Each of the 10 tracks are solid and compact musical ideas, with Gus's guitar acting as the voice. Unlike many instrumental albums, "Quantum Leap" doesn't feel like a musical root canal or long and drawn-out brain surgery. Producer/engineer Dennis Ward, who was responsible for mixing and mastering "Quantum Leap", ended up laying down bass tracks on eight of the 10 tracks. The album started as a full-on solo outing, with Gus programming drums and playing guitar, bass and keyboards, but a chance encounter with drummer Jan-Vincent Velazco - who volunteered his services and subsequently blew Gus away - opened up the production. "Quantum Leap" was assembled in pieces, featuring new compositions and material taken from Gus's "riff vault," where he stores unfinished ideas and revisits them when he's able. And there's no excuse for anybody to say, 'I like the music but I hate that type vocals.' because there are no vocals. It doesn't sound like I wrote 10 different riffs on the low E string and put a bunch of solos over it. There's a track on the record that's a little bit synth-wave, there's bluesy ballad thing, there's a track that has more prog elements, there's some power metal, so it's all under the hard rock / heavy metal umbrella, but I wanted it to have some variety. "Instrumental music might not be a big seller, but everybody and can listen to anything, and there are no limits to what I can do. "As an artist nowadays, you can basically do whatever you like and there's an audience out there for it," he says. Being a part of the music industry over the past 20 years has taught Gus that the business and the market has evolved to the point that instrumental albums are far more readily accepted compared to when he started. It's an approach he takes with every album he makes, but if heavy metal is considered a niche market doing an instrumental album is an even smaller corner of that. Gus agrees with the suggestion that one has to make an instrumental album for him or herself if people happen to enjoy it, that's a plus. "It was more of a case of, 'What else is there?' I needed the creative outlet." "I didn't make 'Quantum Leap' with the intention of it being the next one in the cycle of solo albums," Gus admits. Immobilized by the quarantine measures that kept him at home, Gus began compiling musical ideas to keep himself occupied, which led to the full-on effort to write and record an album during the summer of 2021. "Quantum Leap" came together over the course of the worldwide pandemic that, unfortunately, prevented FIREWIND's self-titled album from 2020 from gaining any real momentum. The official music video for the disc's latest single, "Enigma Of Life", can be seen below. Greek guitar virtuoso Gus G., well known in rock and metal circles for his work as Ozzy Osbourne's guitarist and as leader of his own band FIREWIND, will release a new solo album, "Quantum Leap", on October 8 via AFM Records.