Former W.A.S.P. guitarist Chris Holmes has released the official music video for his new single “Playing With Fire” which can be seen below.
Holmes has taken advantage of the period of non-live activity during the COVID-19 pandemic to offer you new projects. The end of 2020 will see the release of a DVD/Blu-ray documentary, to be followed by a new studio album in 2021.
Fans who participate in Holmes’s Indiegogo campaign can make a donation in exchange for a consideration such as a CD or guitar picks. You can even acquire Chris’s leather jacket with its personalized paint or see your name inscribed in the booklet for the new album. Along with the album, you’ll be able to pre-order a collector’s collection of gorgeous never-before-seen photos embellished with Chris’s thoughts to help you get to know him better. The book will be available in very limited quantities, numbered {plus|and} signed by Chris himself.
Cleopatra Entertainment recently secured the North American, U.K., Australian, New Zealand {plus|and} South African distribution rights to the documentary film “Mean Man: The Story Of Chris Holmes”.
Written {plus|and} directed by French filmmakers Antoine De Montremy {plus|and} Laurent Hart (whose music production career includes televised interviews with SCORPIONS, DEEP PURPLE, SLAYER, GUNS N’ ROSES {plus|and} more), “Mean Man: The Story Of Chris Holmes” was a project that was born in 2014 after they had an opportunity to meet {plus|and} direct Holmes in a music video for the Holmes-penned song “Let It Roar” in Cannes, France. At that time, the former W.A.S.P. guitarist had more or less disappeared from the music scene, leaving his home in the U.S. to seek a new beginning with his wife Sarah in France. Not content with merely directing a music video for the reborn Holmes, De Montremy pursued his bigger dream of writing {plus|and} directing a documentary film about this iconic metal guitar legend, {plus|and} for the next several years shadowed him throughout Europe while filming everything from band rehearsals, to recording sessions to live performances.