Michael Schenker: legendary rockin' riffs on the road.  (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)

Guitar master [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Michael Schenker[/lastfm] will release his next studio album Temple of Rock on October 11, and he’s hittin’ that rock road to North Texas with friends…

[lastfm link_type="artist_info"]The Scorpions[/lastfm], [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]UFO[/lastfm], and [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Michael Schenker Group [/lastfm]axeman explains that, “The Temple of Rock is within me where I create since I was introduced to the amazing invention of the distorted guitar which is for me the most enjoyable and the best possible way to express myself. With Temple of Rock, I am entering a new stage of my life…”

Schenker will team with [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Leslie West[/lastfm] (the [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Mountain[/lastfm] guitarist’s album Unusual Suspects featuring [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Billy Gibbons[/lastfm], [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Slash[/lastfm], [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Steve Lukather[/lastfm], and others, is available now) and [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Uli Jon Roth[/lastfm] for the 3 Guitar Heroes tour, starting October 6 in Norfolk, CT.

You can check them out first hand here at Dallas’ House of Blues November 4th!  To see their full tour schedule, click here.  ~JZ.