TNT revealed several song titles that are in the first album with their new vocalist, Tony Mills (ex-Shy). The new ablum, which is being recorded in Toten, Norway with producer H.P. Gundersen , will contain the cuts "Something Special" , "I Cant Go on with This Feeling" , "Golden Opportunity" , "Fountain of Love" and "Are You Blind" , among other songs.

Mills has previously mentioned about this upcoming album here.

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XpressMag.com, Dave Harrison has recently conducted the interview with Yngwie Malmsteen about various topics including his last album. Few excerpts are follow:

Q: Where did the idea to combine classical music and rock guitar come from?
A: "I was the youngest member of my family, I have an older brother and sister and my mother, my father, my uncles, my aunts… everybody is a musician. My grandfather was a drummer… it's like music, music, music everywhere… and art, a lot of art and music.

I had a very artistic kind of upbringing. As a little kid I wasn't really into being a musician. My mother gave me a guitar on my fifth birthday, and a trumpet on my sixth birthday, and so on, but when I was seven I saw a TV news special about Jimi Hendrix. It showed him burning his guitar and you didn't even hear the music, just saw him burning a guitar, and I thought that was so cool. I already had a guitar, so I started playing that same day – September 18, 1970 - I was only a little kid.

One year later my older sister Lulu gave me DEEP PURPLE's Fireball, which is a really hard rock album, and I went out and bought In Rock the next day. I was listening to songs like 'Fireball', 'Flight Of The Rat' - just so heavy - so I learned how to play all these solos and stuff and, contrary to most people's opinion or theory, is that Deep Purple, along with all other rock ‘n' roll bands were all blues based. Pentatonic scales and my classical influence did not come from them. A lot of people seem to think so, but no no no no.

I love these guys… my favourite band ever. My classical music didn't come from there, but my love for hard rock was definitely from 'Purple. What I wanted to do was try and take this whole thing with the double bass drums and the Marshalls all the way up and all that shit, and play with counterpoints and pedal notes, inverted chords, Phrygian modes, inverted scales, diminished scales… all that shit.

Then I saw a TV program: it was a guy playing violin. They said it was music from Niccolo Paganini. When I heard that I said ‘fuck, that's what I want to go for on the guitar'. So my guitar playing is 99.9 per cent influenced by classical violin… mainly Paganini, Vivaldi, and Tchaikovsky… and my songwriting is very Bach in the structuring, because I've always loved the counterpoint and the harmonic minor kind of things… but I love the sound of the metal ensemble. That's how it all started."

Q: That's a long fucking time ago man. Is it the barocque era of classical music you are most fond of?
A: "Yeah for sure, but the virtuoso violin stuff was really later on, the more romantic era… late 18th century / early19th century. That when Franz List, Chopin… the virtuoso era was in the early 1800s. Paganini was unsurpassed in every way. Before that Vivaldi was considered a very virtuoso violinist, which he was as well. The Arpeggios linear scales and everything - I pretty much got that from Paganini."

Q: How do you think that lends itself to rock music that originally comes from the blues, especially the early metal stuff like ZEPPELIN, SABBATH, Purple?
A: "Yeah for sure man. Nothing wrong with that, I love the blues. I felt, being such a fanatical little kid, I felt like I had mastered all the whole box shapes. I really felt frustrated with that. That's why I really branched out when I got into the violin. When you think about it violin is tuned in fifths. Listen to, for instance, 16th, 24th and the 5th caprice from Nicolo Paganini… some of the stretched are ridiculous, so when you try to get that sound on guitar, it's really fucking demanding. No one had really done that. I heard it in my heard. That's why I always really love the Stratocaster too, because it had a much more bell-like sound than, say, a Les Paul or a guitar with those type of pickups."

Source XpressMag

Trevor Phipps commented about his band, Unearth touring with Slayer.

“Slayer is one of the most influential bands of all time in the metal genre," declares Phipps. "We get to tour with those guys and bring our brand of metal to their stage. It is an honor, privilege and a god damn milestone for us."

This monster of a tour will hit the road on January 24th for a four-week North American tour. The dates are in support of the Unearth's latest album, III In The Eyes Of Fire. Unearth will have a new video, their second one off “III In The Eyes Of Fire” for the track 'Sanctity Of Brothers' produced by Darren Doane (LAMB OF GOD, EVERY TIME I DIE)

Confirmed dates for Slayer's winter 2007 North American tour are as follows:

January
24 - Tucson Convention Center - Tucson, AZ
25 - House of Blues - Las Vegas, NV
26 - TBA
28 - Memorial Auditorium - Sacramento, CA
30 - Great Salt Air - Salt Lake City, UT
31 - Fillmore Auditorium - Denver, CO

February
2 - Bricktown Events Center - Oklahoma City, OK
3 - Memorial Hall - Kansas City, KS
5 - Egyptian Room - Indianapolis, IN
7 - Labatt Center - London, ON
8 - Copps Coliseum - Hamilton, ON
9 - Scotiabank Place - Ottawa, ON
10 - Mid-Hudson Civic Center - Poughkeepsie, NY
12 - Lifestyles Pavilion - Columbus, OH
13 - Convocation Center - Youngstown, OH
15 - Hammerstein Ballroom - New York, NY
16 - Lupo's at the Strand Theatre - Providence, RI
17 - House of Blues - Atlantic City, NJ
19 - 9:30 Club - Washington, DC
20 - 9:30 Club - Washington, DC
22 - House of Blues - Myrtle Beach, SC
23 - House of Blues - Orlando, FL
24 - Venue TBA - Ft. Lauderdale, FL

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