Hails And Horns has issued an interview with FORBIDDEN guitarist Craig Lociero, conducted by Kelley Simms. The following is an excerpt:

Q: Your new album, Omega Wave, your first in almost 14 years, seems to be back to the aggressive thrash that was displayed on your first two albums. Did you have any preconceived notions of what direction you wanted the album to head in while writing it?

A: "The right direction (laughing). A lot of times, almost every band is guilty of this, maybe except SLAYER. Even them to a certain degree. We get a little side tracked. So many things were going on in the business and music in general from 1990 to 1992; things were really turned on its ear. Everybody knows the story. I’d even seen LOVERBOY say that NIRVANA killed their career, which is hilarious because their career was probably killed far before that. Everything was changing and a lot of us lost perspective. From the time we did Twisted Into Form from the time we did Forbidden Evil, there was a huge change. And we were growing by leaps and bounds. And then the growth was even more so from Twisted Into Distortion, but it just sort of lost what ever made us really catch on fire, there wasn’t so much of it there. Green was all angry, it was a great record. It was a little ahead of its time and I find a lot of bigger bands really love Green. I hear that from numerous bigger bands now, which is funny because not a lot of people seem to know about it, but they seem to. Then nobody really touched metal out of the group of us, except for Steve Smyth. But we really hadn’t been playing much full-on metal, any of us. So when the whole idea came to do this resurgence, my clarity was there, I could see exactly what we did right, what we did wrong, and where things took a turn for the worse. The hindsight twenty-twenty cliché. So we kind of went into it knowing that it had to be more serviceable to what we used to be, which made us popular in the first place. Writing it became very simple and it was an easy experience. Easier than anything I’ve ever written, from a certain stand point. Just riffing and stuff like that just came really naturally."

Read the full interview at this location.

Forbidden recently uploaded the song 'Dragging My Casket' to their official MySpace page.

The track comes off of Omega Wave, the band's fifth studio album after a 13-year recording hiatus, which will be released in Europe on October 22nd and on October 26th in North America. It was recorded at Sonic Room/Audio Voyage Studios in Livermore, California, produced by Forbidden guitarist/songwriter Craig Locicero with Tim Narducci, and mixed by Sean Beavan (SLAYER, MARILYN MANSON, NINE INCH NAILS).

Forbidden 2010 features:

Russ Anderson - vocals

Craig Locicero - guitar

Steve Smyth - guitar

Matt Camacho - bass

Mark Hernandez - drums

Omega Wave tracklisting:

'Alpha Century'

'Forsaken At The Gates'

'Swine

'Immortal Wounds'

'Hopenosis''

'Adapt Or Die'

'Inhuman Race'

'Behind The Mask'

'Dragging My Casket'

'Overthrow'

'Omega Wave'

Forbidden will hold a free public listening party for their first record since reforming, on Friday, October 22nd at Soundwave Studios in Oakland, CA. The event will start at 9 PM and is located at 2200 Wood St.