Lord of the Strings Joe Stump

• 1 Full Throttle 04:52
• 2 Hyperbolic 05:19
• 3 Raise Your Glass 04:51
• 4 Den of Vipers Intro 01:24
• 5 Den of Vipers 05:00
• 6 Playing with Fire 05:49
• 7 In the Hall of the King 07:00
• 8 Highly Combustible 04:29
• 9 Edge of Your Seat 04:30
• 10 Leipzig 1722 01:32
• 11 Eternity of Darkness 06:40
• 12 Storming the Castle 04:47
• Total Runtime 56:13

Info for Lord of the Strings

The Professor of Shred Joe Stump returns with the pedal firmly to the metal on his new solo album, “Lord of the Strings”, set for release on October 16th via Silver Lining Music.

The first single taken from “Lord of the Strings”, aptly titled ‘Full Throttle’, kicks off the album in blistering style. An unfiltered blast of riff-driven firepower and shreddery, the track sets the tone for what’s to come, delivering a relentless introduction to the electrifying virtuosity that runs throughout the record.

“‘Full Throttle’ is a high-velocity track incorporating all the elements you’d expect to hear from me on one of my solo records,” Joe Stump affirms. “Fierce Metal riffage combined with strong classically influenced melodies and of course the usual absurd amount of highly technical blazing shred guitar pyrotechnics. All of it is executed with a modern-day Ritchie Blackmore badass rock attitude. If you’re a guitar enthusiast or a metal fan, there’s certainly plenty of action on this one!”

Stump doesn’t just lay down the speed as he does in ‘Full Throttle’ or revisit the classic grounds of traditional melodic heavy metal on tracks such as ‘Playing with Fire’, on this 12-track instrumental opus, Stump takes the guitar into lyrical territory with the likes of ‘In the Hall of the King’ and ‘Eternity of Darkness’ with his supremely detailed licks taking the lead narrative role. Stump also exercises moments of poetic acoustic reflection on ‘Den of Vipers’ and ‘Leipzig 1722’, but overall, “Lord of the Strings” is a belting, relentless beast, and (as the man himself says) ‘a heavy metal guitar orgy’.

If you crave screaming guitars of Valhallic proportions, this one is for you. Stump is a guitarist that likes his riffs to roar and his leads to flash like lightning. Stump delivers every track with extraordinary power, precision and purpose, pushing the guitar to its limits while never holding back. From searing riffs to jaw-dropping shred, “Lord of the Strings” is designed to hit hard, hit fast and leave its mark. This is guitar playing at full force and you won’t want to miss it.

Joe Stump, guitars, bass
Francisco Palomo, keyboards, drum programming

Engineered, Mixed and Mastered by Francisco Palomo at the Dungeon
Produced by Joe Stump and Francisco Palomo

Joe Stump
To those of you in guitar and metal circles Joe Stump should need no introduction. The Shredlord has been raining down full throttle neo-classical/shred/speed metal since his debut Guitar Dominance was released over 27 years ago.

Joe Stump was named by Guitar One magazine as one of the top 10 fastest shredders of all time, by Guitar World as one of the 50 fastest players of all time, and by Guitarist magazine as one of the top 20 shredders of all time. He has appeared in countless guitar and metal-based publications, fanzines, and webzines worldwide. The American shred guitar legend has toured the world both as a solo artist and with metal bands Joe Stump’s Tower Of Babel, Joe Stump’s Reign Of Terror and HolyHell. Joe is also the guitarist in the legendary hard rock band Alcatrazz. The band relaunched and released it’s first record since 1986 , the album Born Innocent went to #1 in Japan and #4 in the UK metal/hard rock album charts. Alcatrazz toured extensively in 2019 ( Europe, UK , Japan , Australia ). A little after a year later, Alcatrazz added legendary vocalist Doogie White (Rainbow , Yngwie Malmsteen, Michael Schenker ) and released V the follow up to Born Innocent. Joe is also an Associate Professor at the esteemed Berklee College of Music where he has been the metal/ shred guitar specialist for the last 28 years. His new solo record Diabolical Ferocity was released by Finnish Label Lion Music on September 17th of 2021.

This album contains no booklet.