The Great Southern Brainfart has issued an interview with HOLY GRAIL's Eli Santana and James Paul Luna. An excerpt follows:

Q: Holy Grail has been touring non-stop in America and in Europe behind Crisis In Utopia. How much longer will you guys be out for this one before hitting the studio for album #2?

Santana: "We’re hoping to get at least one more tour in but we don’t want to force it. We’re not going to just go out on our own for no reason. If something cool isn’t happening then I think we’ll start working on the next record but we’re open to possibilities.

Q: Do you guys have any new material written for the next album?

Luna: "Not really. We have our own riff tapes that we pull from. We each individually come up with structures of songs. At this point it’s just been us throwing around riffs. We haven’t actually got together to jam anything out."

Q: So you guys pretty much just have a collection of riffs that you pull from to get the writing process started?

Luna: "Yeah. Well sometimes it’s a number of things. Sometimes it’s a melody, sometimes it’s a riff or a solo and sometimes it just all happens at once."

Santana: "Sometimes the song just happens to you. Sometimes you just can’t get a song idea out of your head so you have to record it and those are usually the best ones."

Q: The word about Holy Grail has been spreading with all the constant touring. Are you seeing the fan base growing every time you revisit a city?

Luna: "Yeah, it’s crazy."

Santana: "Every time we come back to a city we see more Holy Grail shirts and we realize that this touring thing actually works [laughs]."

Read the full interview here.

Upcoming Holy Grail live dates with TOXIC HOLOCAUST and KRUM BUMS include:

August

23 - Cleveland, OH - Now That's Class
24 - Detroit, MI - Magic Stick
25 - Chicago, IL - Reggies
26 - Milwaukee, WI - Cactus Club
27 - Minneapolis, WI - The Triple Rock
28 - Winnipeg, MB - Royal Albert Arms (no Krum Bums)
29 - Regina, SK - The Exchange (no Krum Bums)
30 - Edmonton, AB - Brixx (no Krum Bums)
31 - Calgary, AB - Dickens Pub (no Krum Bums)

September

1 - Kamloops, BC - Pogue Mahone (no Krum Bums)
2 - Seattle, WA - El Corazon
3 - Bremerton, WA - The Charleston
4 - Portland, OR - Branx
6 - Sacramento, CA - The Fire Escape
7 - Oakland, CA - The Metro
9 - San DiegoCA - The Shakedown
10 - Los Angeles, CA - The Blvd.