SHREDDING THE ENVELOPE guitarist / vocalist Dave Reffett is featured in a new interview with Metal Assault. An excerpt is available below.

Q: Your debut album The Call Of The Flames is amazing. Are you happy with how it turned out and is being received?

Dave: "I'm very happy with it. We wrote all the songs over the course of a couple of years. I think we really put our best work out there. We loved the production and we produced it all ourselves. We got a friend of mine Mudrock who's working with ALICE COOPER and AVENGED SEVENFOLD to mix it. He did a brilliant job, and then we also got this guy George Marino to master it. I've been a really big fan of his work. He's worked with METALLICA, AC/DC and a bunch of stuff. So I'm really proud of it and I would say the reception has been really good. The reviews have been outstanding. I get letters and emails from all over the world telling me that people love it."

Q: Which song on the album was the most challenging for you and took the longest to compose?

Dave: "The song 'Shredding The Envelope' was very tough because its 8 minutes long and doing the guitar riffs was crazy. That was a pretty tough one to play. 'I Don't Want To Say Goodbye' is a really tough one to sing. There are some really high parts on there and some challenging vocal work. Some people have compared it to DIO and OZZY, which is great. I love hearing stuff like that. They were all hard in different ways but those two especially were pretty tough."

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The Call Of The Flames was written and produced by Dave Reffett and Nancy Taylor. Mixed by acclaimed producer Mudrock (ALICE COOPER, GODSMACK, AVENGED SEVENFOLD) and mastered by the legendary engineer George Marino (METALLICA, KISS, AC/DC, GUNS N' ROSES).

The Call Of The Flames tracklisting:

'The Call Of The Flames' (featuring Joe Stump)

'Standstill And Scream' (featuring Michael Angelo Batio)

'Devils Roadmap' (featuring Glen Drover, Chris Poland)

'Caravan Of Cannibals' (featuring George Lynch)

'Where Are My Real Brothers?'

'Ruby Avalanche Red Flood'

'I Just Don't Want To Say Goodbye'

'The Wonder, The Curse, And The Crave'

'Shredding The Envelope' (featuring Joe Stump)

The album is available now at and CD Baby.