Classic Rock Revisited correspondent Ryan Sparks recently caughht up with BIGELF frontman Damon Fox to discuss the band's new album, Cheat The Gallows, and being part of DREAM THEATER's Progressive Nation Tour. An excerpt is available below.

Ryan: You’re currently between the North American and European legs of the Progressive Nation Tour. The North American leg I think provided the band with some much needed exposure as well it probably gave fans that might not have heard Bigelf a chance to see what the band is all about. I understand that you got a pretty favorable response every evening as well. Looking back are you happy with how it all went down?

Damon: "Absolutely. It was some much needed exposure to a larger progressive rock audience. When you play theaters, sheds and arenas, it’s just a mathematical equation at that point because you’re going to get more fans. We’re enough in the category of progressive rock where I think certain people no matter what are going to get it. But Bigelf is different enough and we push the envelope enough to where people aren’t going to get it as well. I think the US side of the Prog Nation is a little less on the hard rock side and the European side is a lot more metal but with prog elements."

Ryan: Especially with a band like OPETH.

Damon: "Yeah, and Dream Theater will definitely play on their heavier side in Europe. We have a larger following in Europe so we’re just going to more or less be ourselves [laughs]. But on the US side with Zappa Plays Zappa it was more about the finesse, the technical side of things which was fantastic as well, so we definitely had to try to play more on our progressive side to try to turn on those fans. Bigelf is about twenty different genres in one band so it’s pretty easy for us to change, but we like it when we can do our “own” thing."

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The European Progressive Nation tour schedule is now as follows.

The schedule is now as follows:

September

29 - Arena - Berlin, Germany
30 - Luczniczka Hall - Bydgoszcz, Poland

October

2 - Sporthalle - Hamburg, Germany
4 - Zenith - Paris, France
6 - Zenith - Lille, France
7 - Ahoy - Rotterdam, Netherlands
13 - Olympia, Theatre - Dublin, Ireland
17 - Forest National - Brussels, Belgium
18 - Frankfurt, Germany - Jahhrhunderthalle
19 - Ludwigsburg, Germany - Arena
31 - Ljubljana, Slovenia - Tivoli