Brad Gillis employs a '57 Strat and '52 Goldtop on the San Fransisco hard-rockers' upcoming 12th studio album
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Night Ranger have announced their 12th studio album – and first in four years – ATBPO. Kicking off proceedings, the San Francisco hard-rockers have unleashed the record's lead single, Breakout.
Busting out the gate with an ascending dual electric guitar line, guitarists Brad Gillis and Keri Kelli offer up a dizzying – and rather diverse – array of classic rock-inspired riffs, as well as a face-melting supply of lead lines to boot. Listen to the track below.
The band began writing the album in early 2020 – before the onset of the coronavirus pandemic – however due to the restrictions that followed, the group recorded each of their parts separately.
Explains Gillis: “It’s been a crazy but fun task trying to write and finish this new record in a Covid situation. A few zoom video gatherings got us started. With everybody in the band having their own home studios, we were all able to elaborate and add our own textures to each song.
“As a vintage guitar collector, I was able to add some great classic sounds to rhythm and solos using my '57 Strat and '52 Goldtop!”
Adds bassist/vocalist Jack Blades: “The process was strange but the outcome rocks.”
ATBPO – which stands for ‘And The Band Played On’ – follows the band's previous studio album, Don't Let Up. It is the second Night Ranger album to feature Keri Kelli, after previous guitarist Joel Hoekstra left to join Whitesnake in 2014.
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The new album arrives in various formats on August 6 via Frontiers Music Srl. Preorder is available now.
Sam was Staff Writer at GuitarWorld.com from 2019 to 2023, and also created content for Total Guitar, Guitarist and Guitar Player. He has well over 15 years of guitar playing under his belt, as well as a degree in Music Technology (Mixing and Mastering). He's a metalhead through and through, but has a thorough appreciation for all genres of music. In his spare time, Sam creates point-of-view guitar lesson videos on YouTube under the name Sightline Guitar.
