HOLY GRAIL Frontman On Former Band WHITE WIZZARD - "I Don't Think It's Fair To Connect Those Two Bands"
January 27, 2011, 13 years ago
HOLY GRAIL vocalist James Paul Luna is featured in a new interview with Metal Expres Radio.An excerpt is available below:
MER: Holy Grail is a young band so, can you give readers a brief story about how you started?
James: "We started in 2008 with three ex-WHITE WIZZARD members, including myself. We wanted to do something different from strictly IRON MAIDEN / JUDAS PRIEST stuff and add some thrash and speed metal elements to our music. Moreover, we wanted to throw some modern metal finishing touches on the sound ... and that’s how Holy Grail started."
MER: Do you feel a little bit awkward when someone in a live concert screams "White Wizzard"?
James: "You know, I really do not have a problem with it. It was a band that I have been in, so I am ok. It’s my past after all."
MER: But how do you feel when people are connecting Holy Grail and White Wizzard?
James: "I don’t think it is fair to connect those two bands. Ok, three members were in White Wizzard’s original line-up, but Holy Grail is kind of a natural progression. These bands are not the same."
Go to this location for the complete interview.
Holy Grail's upcoming tour schedule with ELUVEITIE, 3 INCHES OF BLOOD and SYSTEM DIVIDE is as follows:
February
1 - Philadelphia, PA - Theatre of Living Arts2 - New York, NY - The Gramercy Theater
3 - Worcester, MA - The Palladium
4 - Quebec City, QC - Cercle
5 - Montreal, QC - Le National
6 - Toronto, ON - The Opera House
8 - Chicago, IL - The Bottom Lounge
9 - St. Paul, MN - Station 4
10 - Lawrence, KS - Granada Theater
11 - Denver, CO - Marquis Theater
12 - Salt Lake City, UT - Club Sound
14 - Seattle, WA - El Corazon
15 - Vancouver, BC - Rickshaw Theatre
16 - Portland, OR - Hawthorne Theatre
17 - San Francisco, CA - Slims
18 - Hollywood, CA - The Key Club
19 - Mesa, AZ - Nile Theater
21 - San Antonio, TX - Backstage Live
22 - Houston, TX - Warehouse Live
24 - St. Petersburg, FL - State Theatre
25 - Orlando, FL - Firestone Live
26 - Atlanta, GA - The Masquerade
