ALESTORM frontman Christopher Bowes discusses the band's new album, Black Sails At Midnight, in a new interview with SeaOfTranquility.org. An excerpt is available below.

SoT: There must be a market for this genre; you just have to look how well Pirates Of The Caribbean has done, to see people have quite the fascination with pirates.

Christopher: "People just love silly little catchy songs about drinking beer and fighting. Stick in an opportunity for everyone to dress up in stupid costumes, and it's an instant winner, haha! But aye, Pirates Of The Caribbean came about at the perfect time for us. I guess it made piracy cool, just as we were starting to get going. Which was nice."

SoT: I suppose your music would allow you to be quite creative, with Alestorm's live shows...

Christopher: "Thing is, there's a fine line between being creative and dressing up like an asshole. We refuse to wear costumes or anything on stage, much to the dismay of our record label. I'm all for having an awesome stage set, with flags and pirate ships and cannons everywhere. But that costs money, money which we don't have. These days, we just go on stage, strip naked, and rock the fuck out. No gimmicks."

Go to this location for the complete interview.

Black Sails At Midnight is available in normal jewel case format (top graphic), and also as a limited edition digipak with different artwork and a bonus DVD featuring their gig from Wacken 2008. The tracklist is as follows: 'The Quest', 'Leviathan', 'That Famous Ol' Spiced', 'Keelhauled', 'To The End Of Our Days', 'Black Sails At Midnight', 'No Quarter', 'Pirate Song', 'Chronicles Of Vengeance', 'Wolves Of The Sea'.

Album samples can be found on Alesrorm's MySpace page audio player here.

BraveWords.com's Mark Gromen spoke with Alestorm singer/mobile keyboardist Chris Bowes recently - check out the feature here.