Tenacious D Announce May Release for New Album, Post Clip of Title Track

It's been a long time coming -- six years to be exact -- but Tenacious D have at long last announced the release of a third studio album, Rize of the Fenix.

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Josh Hart is a former web producer and staff writer for Guitar World and Guitar Aficionado magazines (2010–2012). He has since pursued writing fiction under various pseudonyms while exploring the technical underpinnings of journalism, now serving as a senior software engineer for The Seattle Times.

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