TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA director / co-founder Paul O'Neill is featured in a new video interview with Cleveland's WKYC.com. In addition to discussion of how much bigger the 2009 TSO show is compared to last year, O'Neill comments on a planned world tour for 2010. Check it out below.

As previously reported, Trans-Siberian Orchestra's long-awaited new album, Night Castle, will be released on October 27th. The album's release is preceded by a single, a cover of EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER's 'Nutrocker' that features Greg Lake guesting on bass.

Night Castle is TSO's second non-Christmas rock opera, following Beethoven's Last Night in 2000. At is heart is the story of a US Army special forces officer (Lt. William Crozier, voiced by former JOURNEY and YNGWIE MALMSTEEN singer Jeff Scott Soto) and his journey to fight the Khmer Rouge in the early '70s Killing Fields of Cambodia.

The Night Castle opera takes up 21 of the two-disc set's 26 songs and is fleshed out by a 68-page booklet featuring the artwork of TSO cohort Greg Hildebrandt. The five 'bonus tracks' include 'Nutrocker' and a rendition of Carl Orff's 1930s composition 'Carmina Burana'.

Night Castle tracklisting:

'Night Enchanted'

'Childhood Dreams'

'Sparks'

'The Mountain'

'Night Castle'

'The Safest Way Into Tomorrow'

'Mozart And Memories'

'Another Way You Can Die'

'Toccata-Carpimus Noctem'

'The Lion's Roar'

'Dreams We Conceive'

'Mother And Son'

'There Was A Life'

'Moonlight And Madness'

'Time Floats On'

'Epiphany'

'Bach Lullaby'

'Father, Son & Holy Ghost'

'Remnants Of A Lullaby'

'The Safest Way Into Tomorrow (Reprise)'

'Embers'

'Child Of The Night'

'Believe'

'Nutrocker'

'Carmina Burana'

'Tracers'

The Trans-Siberian Orchestra has posted the line-up(s) for the upcoming 2009 / 2010 North American tour. Go to this location to check it out. Click here for the complete TSO tour schedule for the East and West US coast companies.