How did you discover Firewind? - Page 4

Taccer · September 9th, 2008, 05:04 PM

I was searching for power metal banmds on myspace, heard 'I am the Anger', loved it. For some reason bought Allegience, loved it. Downloaded the rest of their stuff, loved it. They are are now my no. 1's!

-Taccer

Achtland · September 10th, 2008, 09:15 PM

Awesome Taccer. Firewind has a strange history but stay with them. FIREWIND rules the planet!

Kirst-ehhh · September 13th, 2008, 06:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Taccer

I was searching for power metal banmds on myspace, heard 'I am the Anger', loved it. For some reason bought Allegience, loved it. Downloaded the rest of their stuff, loved it. They are are now my no. 1's!

-Taccer

Going to any dates on their UK tour next week?

xx Kirsty

Fjar · September 13th, 2008, 01:22 PM

Another one who first saw them on the DragonForce tour.

Now, since then, DF have got crap, and Firewind have become good.. it's nice when things work out right, isn't it?

Kirst-ehhh · September 13th, 2008, 07:53 PM

Why yes, yes it is!

lol.

xx Kirsty

firewindraging · September 15th, 2008, 02:31 PM

My friend was a big fan of Gus G's and first showed me Nightrage before Gus left and then showed me Kill To Live by Firewind and I was hooked! That was like the first really good metal I ever heard outside of Iron Maiden and Metallica.

diseasedmind · September 24th, 2008, 08:09 PM

for me it was on the progpower UK website, when they played a few years back, saw the video for i am the anger (which is pretty random) and was hooked ever since!

mh9693 · March 4th, 2009, 04:55 PM

i had already been obsessed with DragonForce after seeing their video for the song Operation Ground and Pound. So I'm on youtube looking for videos involving Herman Li. I come across this one called "Herman Li Police Video," so i watch it, and it, of course, happens to involve a then-unknown-to-me Gus G. of a band called Firewind. So a few weeks later when i was watching the same video again i decided to check out some Firewind. First song I ever heard by them was "The Fire and The Fury." I was instantly hooked and have every album to date and am working on getting the Live Premonition DVD.

Katie'Force · March 4th, 2009, 05:00 PM

I too discovered Firewind through Dragonforce, when Firewind supported them back in 2006, awesome tour and I was blown away by Firewind!!! Welcome to the forum!!!

mh9693 · March 4th, 2009, 05:08 PM

thanks =)
\m/

StoneFirebird · March 10th, 2009, 09:36 AM

I was seriously bored while waiting for my partners for a project to finish their work, decided to go to Wikipedia and hit the random article button until something interesting showed up. I think the third article was on Gus G., and I decided that was interesting enough for me.

Later I heard Mercenary Man on AOL Radio (while working on the same project) and that was when I became a fan.

Lt. Hellraiser · March 10th, 2009, 10:40 AM

I discovered Firewind when I saw that they were opening for DragonForce in dec 2006 or something. Later I browsed through the other works of Gus, and saw that he plays on the Regressus CD from Mystic Prophecy... and I saw that I actually have that CD, and was like: "OMG, why didn't I notice!?!"
The Firewind Gig in 2006 was totally amazing, so I'm into Firewind since then.
GREAT!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Iced Dog

Back in 2003, someone online recommended Mystic Prophecy's Regressus album to me...

dude, I remember that! That was in the Iced Earth Forum, when someone wanted to listen to bands that are familiar with IE, and someone recommended MP! I read that post and agreed with that, because I discovered MP like one month before then

cheers

Zob Rombie · May 11th, 2009, 09:43 AM

MySpace!

And now Firewind has their own playlist on my Zune (:

Zedra · May 21st, 2009, 03:05 PM

A friend showed me a video on Youtube with Allegiance as the backing music. I listened to it a couple of times bought it off itunes and fell in love with all their other music.

Misskrissie · May 22nd, 2009, 04:10 AM

They were included in a free CD off one of the metal mags I buy, first hearing and I was hooked :-) I think that was back last year sometime, but managed to see them at the Wulfrun on this last tour and well..... just sublime...... :-)

Deb H · September 1st, 2009, 03:19 PM

I haven't told my story yet on how I discovered the lovely gorgeous Firewind but would love to, hope you don't mind.........here goes anyway....

Like most of you I discovered them in 2006 when they supported Dragonforce, however, I couldn't get tickets, left it too late and it had sold out! That was at Nottingham Rock City. The next time they played which was either late 2006 or early 2007 they played the basement of Rock City but I had already bought tickets ages before for Porcupine Tree, so at the sametime as Firewind were playing downstairs I was watching PT upstairs, if only I could have swapped my tickets, I would of!!

Eventually got to see them live for the first time at a one off gig they did at JB's Dudley directly after they played Bloodstock in 2007, there were only about 60 people there but they played to a thousand in their little Greek hearts, the rest is history.........btw Henning Basse was on vocals here!

Thanks for listening.... Deb x

Katie'Force · September 1st, 2009, 03:23 PM

bizarrely enough, me and Kirsty were at that gig in Nottingham, I remember saying to my friends how all the people in the Porcupine Tree queue so come see Firewind instead. You should have listened to me

Shned · September 1st, 2009, 03:25 PM

Saw them live in December 2006, and it went from there.

Deb H · September 2nd, 2009, 08:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Katie'Force

bizarrely enough, me and Kirsty were at that gig in Nottingham, I remember saying to my friends how all the people in the Porcupine Tree queue so come see Firewind instead. You should have listened to me

Yeah I should of damn!! It was horrible knowing they were playing oh so close.........

Keelhauled · September 3rd, 2009, 08:56 AM

my ex sent me a song over msn....she thought it was gonna be one of those songs that would wreck my emotions, but i thought it was awesome, LOL

Kirst-ehhh · September 3rd, 2009, 09:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Keelhauled

my ex sent me a song over msn....she thought it was gonna be one of those songs that would wreck my emotions, but i thought it was awesome, LOL

Haha! Tres epic!!!

xx Kirsty

Keelhauled · September 3rd, 2009, 09:58 AM

haha definitely, i love it when an evil plan gets completely turned around on someone, LOOL

TrickyBeans · November 12th, 2009, 02:01 PM

I forgot how i came across firewind but it was around the time of I am the Anger video came out.... and a year later i met Gus G here in Florida playing with arch enemy?

Firewind Wiki · February 8th, 2010, 01:49 AM

a friend of me had tickets for a show in the 013 in the netherlands and he asked me if i wanted to come with him, i went and that was teh best concert of my life. after that i bought all the albums and i only need the demo album and then i have them all

Mack Addy · February 8th, 2010, 09:35 PM

I work at a music store (a national retail chain that is NOT Guitar Center). At the turn of 2007, we received our new product catalogs from ESP guitars. While studying everything they had available, I came across Gus's page for his signature guitar. I loved the shape (I'm a fan of star-shaped and explorer-shaped guitars), the bridge (original Floyd Rose) and the pickups (Seymour Duncan), but thought to myself, "Gus G? Who the fuck is that and how did he scam his way into getting a signature guitar distributed here in the States?" Later in the year I received this promo DVD from ESP that showed music videos of their endorsed artists along with interviews with them afterwards. On that promo DVD was the 'Falling To Pieces' video along with a short interview with Gus talking about his influences and his signature guitar. Although it was a poppy-sounding song, I was impressed by it which influenced me to look into Firewind.

Some time later I eventually looked them up via YouTube watching every live bootleg and music video I could find. I was sold once I found 'Breaking The Silence' and ordered a copy of Allegiance. Through company policy of Borders that states that any item special ordered that takes more than a week to arrive to the store was sold for free, I got my first Firewind cd free of charge. Woohoo!! I fell in love with music all over again and found a new guitar player to become a total whore for.

I am still a growing Firewind fan, but in the short amount of time I have known about them, I have collected a few cds, their Live Premonition DVD (all special edition stuff mind you, because as I said before, I'm a whore like that), and the Gus-600 signature guitar. Hell, I have recently even set that guitar up with his set of Elixir strings tuned down a whole step just to get as authentic of a feel as I can for when I am transcribing this stuff.

/gusgleghump

September 13th, 2008, 01:22 PM	#79 (permalink)
Fjar Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Nottingham Posts: 2	Another one who first saw them on the DragonForce tour. Now, since then, DF have got crap, and Firewind have become good.. it's nice when things work out right, isn't it? __________________ I reject your reality and substitute my own..

September 15th, 2008, 02:31 PM	#81 (permalink)
firewindraging Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 106	My friend was a big fan of Gus G's and first showed me Nightrage before Gus left and then showed me Kill To Live by Firewind and I was hooked! That was like the first really good metal I ever heard outside of Iron Maiden and Metallica. __________________ Bow down in the platinum maze Twilight cathedrals spread the system plague Forging sacred thrones in the void unseen Merciless judgement in the church of the machine

September 24th, 2008, 08:09 PM	#82 (permalink)
diseasedmind Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 57	for me it was on the progpower UK website, when they played a few years back, saw the video for i am the anger (which is pretty random) and was hooked ever since! __________________ All I need is war, all I need is hatred From the fear that’s in your heart I’m attracted like a shark in bloody waters

March 4th, 2009, 05:00 PM	#84 (permalink)
Katie'Force Kables Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: YORKSHIRE!!! Posts: 3,518	I too discovered Firewind through Dragonforce, when Firewind supported them back in 2006, awesome tour and I was blown away by Firewind!!! Welcome to the forum!!! __________________ Olli: During the day we're rockstars, at night we offer services of a different kind... t'Lion t'Witch an t'Wardrobe Shoulders of the wasteland What's worse than the truth? LIES!!!! ORANGE!!!

March 4th, 2009, 05:08 PM	#85 (permalink)
mh9693 Questioner Of Norns Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Massachusetts Posts: 7	thanks =) \m/ __________________ IIII. AM. THE ORACLE! IIII. AM. THE GRACE OV GOD! IIII. AM. THE STREAM OV WOE! IIII. AM. WRATHH FROM ABOOOOOOVE!!!!!

September 9th, 2008, 05:04 PM	#76 (permalink)
Taccer Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: England Posts: 1	I was searching for power metal banmds on myspace, heard 'I am the Anger', loved it. For some reason bought Allegience, loved it. Downloaded the rest of their stuff, loved it. They are are now my no. 1's! -Taccer

September 10th, 2008, 09:15 PM	#77 (permalink)
Achtland ^^goddess^^ Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Fuck You, Alaska Posts: 843	Awesome Taccer. Firewind has a strange history but stay with them. FIREWIND rules the planet!

September 13th, 2008, 07:53 PM	#80 (permalink)
Kirst-ehhh Epic Kirsty Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Glasgow, Scotland Posts: 1,824	Why yes, yes it is! lol. xx Kirsty

March 4th, 2009, 04:55 PM	#83 (permalink)
mh9693 Questioner Of Norns Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Massachusetts Posts: 7	i had already been obsessed with DragonForce after seeing their video for the song Operation Ground and Pound. So I'm on youtube looking for videos involving Herman Li. I come across this one called "Herman Li Police Video," so i watch it, and it, of course, happens to involve a then-unknown-to-me Gus G. of a band called Firewind. So a few weeks later when i was watching the same video again i decided to check out some Firewind. First song I ever heard by them was "The Fire and The Fury." I was instantly hooked and have every album to date and am working on getting the Live Premonition DVD.

March 10th, 2009, 09:36 AM	#86 (permalink)
StoneFirebird There is no return. Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Georgia, USA Posts: 26	I was seriously bored while waiting for my partners for a project to finish their work, decided to go to Wikipedia and hit the random article button until something interesting showed up. I think the third article was on Gus G., and I decided that was interesting enough for me. Later I heard Mercenary Man on AOL Radio (while working on the same project) and that was when I became a fan.

May 11th, 2009, 09:43 AM	#88 (permalink)
Zob Rombie The Shit Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Mays Landing, NJ Posts: 814	MySpace! And now Firewind has their own playlist on my Zune (: __________________ \m/

May 21st, 2009, 03:05 PM	#89 (permalink)
Zedra Gig Goer Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 3	A friend showed me a video on Youtube with Allegiance as the backing music. I listened to it a couple of times bought it off itunes and fell in love with all their other music.

May 22nd, 2009, 04:10 AM	#90 (permalink)
Misskrissie Junior Member Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 5	They were included in a free CD off one of the metal mags I buy, first hearing and I was hooked :-) I think that was back last year sometime, but managed to see them at the Wulfrun on this last tour and well..... just sublime...... :-)

September 1st, 2009, 03:19 PM	#91 (permalink)
Deb H Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 46	I haven't told my story yet on how I discovered the lovely gorgeous Firewind but would love to, hope you don't mind.........here goes anyway.... Like most of you I discovered them in 2006 when they supported Dragonforce, however, I couldn't get tickets, left it too late and it had sold out! That was at Nottingham Rock City. The next time they played which was either late 2006 or early 2007 they played the basement of Rock City but I had already bought tickets ages before for Porcupine Tree, so at the sametime as Firewind were playing downstairs I was watching PT upstairs, if only I could have swapped my tickets, I would of!! Eventually got to see them live for the first time at a one off gig they did at JB's Dudley directly after they played Bloodstock in 2007, there were only about 60 people there but they played to a thousand in their little Greek hearts, the rest is history.........btw Henning Basse was on vocals here! Thanks for listening.... Deb x

September 1st, 2009, 03:23 PM	#92 (permalink)
Katie'Force Kables Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: YORKSHIRE!!! Posts: 3,518	bizarrely enough, me and Kirsty were at that gig in Nottingham, I remember saying to my friends how all the people in the Porcupine Tree queue so come see Firewind instead. You should have listened to me __________________ Olli: During the day we're rockstars, at night we offer services of a different kind... t'Lion t'Witch an t'Wardrobe Shoulders of the wasteland What's worse than the truth? LIES!!!! ORANGE!!!

September 1st, 2009, 03:25 PM	#93 (permalink)
Shned Out to every nation. Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Norfolk/Oklahoma. Posts: 396	Saw them live in December 2006, and it went from there. __________________ --- 'Old Knobbly Knees Townsend', they used to call me.

September 3rd, 2009, 08:56 AM	#95 (permalink)
Keelhauled Genesis Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 5	my ex sent me a song over msn....she thought it was gonna be one of those songs that would wreck my emotions, but i thought it was awesome, LOL

September 3rd, 2009, 09:58 AM	#97 (permalink)
Keelhauled Genesis Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 5	haha definitely, i love it when an evil plan gets completely turned around on someone, LOOL

November 12th, 2009, 02:01 PM	#98 (permalink)
TrickyBeans Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Vice City Posts: 9	I forgot how i came across firewind but it was around the time of I am the Anger video came out.... and a year later i met Gus G here in Florida playing with arch enemy? __________________ "Kiss the princess, Empress of the dark drink the poison , listen to your heart Feed the Princess, Empress of the dark All shall feel the fire" Empress - Gamma RAy

February 8th, 2010, 01:49 AM	#99 (permalink)
Firewind Wiki Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 8	a friend of me had tickets for a show in the 013 in the netherlands and he asked me if i wanted to come with him, i went and that was teh best concert of my life. after that i bought all the albums and i only need the demo album and then i have them all

February 8th, 2010, 09:35 PM	#100 (permalink)
Mack Addy Member Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Florida Posts: 39	I work at a music store (a national retail chain that is NOT Guitar Center). At the turn of 2007, we received our new product catalogs from ESP guitars. While studying everything they had available, I came across Gus's page for his signature guitar. I loved the shape (I'm a fan of star-shaped and explorer-shaped guitars), the bridge (original Floyd Rose) and the pickups (Seymour Duncan), but thought to myself, "Gus G? Who the fuck is that and how did he scam his way into getting a signature guitar distributed here in the States?" Later in the year I received this promo DVD from ESP that showed music videos of their endorsed artists along with interviews with them afterwards. On that promo DVD was the 'Falling To Pieces' video along with a short interview with Gus talking about his influences and his signature guitar. Although it was a poppy-sounding song, I was impressed by it which influenced me to look into Firewind. Some time later I eventually looked them up via YouTube watching every live bootleg and music video I could find. I was sold once I found 'Breaking The Silence' and ordered a copy of Allegiance. Through company policy of Borders that states that any item special ordered that takes more than a week to arrive to the store was sold for free, I got my first Firewind cd free of charge. Woohoo!! I fell in love with music all over again and found a new guitar player to become a total whore for. I am still a growing Firewind fan, but in the short amount of time I have known about them, I have collected a few cds, their Live Premonition DVD (all special edition stuff mind you, because as I said before, I'm a whore like that), and the Gus-600 signature guitar. Hell, I have recently even set that guitar up with his set of Elixir strings tuned down a whole step just to get as authentic of a feel as I can for when I am transcribing this stuff. /gusgleghump