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Like we did a couple of months ago, we're giving away five 6-month memberships for guitarmasterclass.net, a community website that offers an extensive array of online guitar lessons, for beginners and advanced players alike. Each membership is valued at $70 and includes personal guidance by a mentor.

The GMC community is growing fast and currently nearing 15000 members. They also recently recruited a new guitar instructor by the name of Alex Feather Akimov.

Clément Reviriego of Dorthal has released a new EP titled 'Cell Regeneration'. It is available for streaming and download on his SoundCloud and Bandcamp pages, in a "pay what you want" scheme. Listen below. The EP contains 6 tracks and was mastered by Acle Kahney of TesseracT. The artwork was created by Arnaud Vidal.

Stream / download / purchase the EP from Bandcamp.
Stream / download the EP from SoundCloud.

Shattered Skies have uploaded a teaser video for their upcoming EP, titled 'Pianomation', on Youtube. Watch it below. The EP will contain reworked piano and vocal versions of some of the tracks from the 'Reanimation' EP and will be available for download from February 13th, 2012. A cover of Europe's 'The Final Countdown' was posted earlier.

Russia-based The Korea have released their latest full-length album 'Chariots Of The Gods'. It is available for free download from their website. A music video for the single 'Chaos Theory' was posted earlier, watch it below.

Download 'Chariots of the Gods' from thekoreaband.ru.

Canada-based Auras, have posted a new track titled 'Chimerical' which is available for 'name your price' download from their Bandcamp page. The track is also available for streaming on their Youtube Channel. Listen to it below. A guitar play-through video of their song 'Cascade' was posted earlier.

Pascal Bagnuoli of Monopascal has posted a new song titled 'Approaching Jupiter', which is available for free download and for streaming from his Soundcloud page. Listen to it below. Another track, titled 'Solar Energetic Particles', was posted earlier.

Sam McMillan a.k.a. Polygraphist has made his debut album 'Nighterror' available for free download from his Bandcamp page and from Mediafire. The album was made free in preparation for his upcoming 2012 release, of which no further details are available as yet. A demo track titled 'French Canadian Machines' was posted earlier.

Andrew Reynolds a.k.a. Drewsif Stalin of Drewsif Stalin's Musical Endeavors has released a cover of the song 'Black Christmas' on his Bandcamp page. He has also posted a new demo song titled 'Contemplative', which is available for streaming and for free download from his SoundCloud page.

Ryan Geoffrey Martin of California's LodeStar Dynasty has released a new EP titled 'Blurry Moon', which is available for free download on his Bandcamp page. Listen below. He says, 'Music is what I purely enjoy. I know that this is something I am meant to do...My goal is to share complexity in music and have it appeal to every one!'

Listen to 'Blurry Moon' on Bandcamp.

Basick Records have uploaded a sampler for 2012 containing 11 tracks by various of their signed bands. The sampler is available for free streaming and download from Amazon and their Bandcamp page. Listen to it below. It also contains the new Chimp Spanner song 'Dark Age of Technology' that was reported earlier.