Vocalist SEBASTIAN BACH is featured in an interview with Australia's LoudMag.com. An excerpt is available below.

Q: Can you tell us about your new guitarist Nick Sterling?

Bach: "Yeah, I got him in the band when he was 19 and I was looking for the best guitar player I could find. He was very young and I said to myself, 'I don’t know if I can be in a band with a 19-year-old.’ But then I said, 'Wait a minute, am I going to eliminate a guitar player because he’s too young? That’s pretty stupid.' So yeah, I’ve been playing with him for two years and the record is incredible, he’s very easy to write songs with. We get along really good and I think the record came out incredible. He wrote a lot of it and he’s very talented, he’s like the next guitar superstar. He’s very much like RANDY RHOADS, the way he plays, the way he writes, the way he looks, he looks kinda similar, it’s very, very crazy."

Q: I guess he helps keep you young as well (laughs).

Bach: "I don’t know if he keeps me young, but it is amazing being on-stage with him. When I look over at him and we’re doing a song called ‘Youth Gone Wild’, I’m glad at least one of the guys on the stage is a youth (laughs)."

Q: You’ve often claimed in the past to be the “metal fan” when you were a member of Skid Row. What do you think when you hear their more recent material?

Bach: "Well, I haven’t listened to them too much because it doesn’t sound like Skid Row to me, it sounds like a punk band or a country band or something that doesn’t sound ’18 and Life’ to me. I think that my (solo) records sound far more like Slave To The Grind and the first Skid Row record than what they do without me. I’ve always done the same thing in the studio with whoever I’m playing with, so they can tell you that I’m hard to work with, but you know, I’m not hard to work with – I just refuse to suck (laughs)."

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As previously reported, Bach will be holding a signing session in support of his new album, Kicking & Screaming, for September 27th at Vintage Vinyl in Fords, NJ. It is due to begin at 6:00pm. Go to this location to pre-order the album and receive a wristband that grants access to the session.

Bach will release Kicking & Screaming, on September 23rd in Europe and on September 27th in North America via Frontiers Records. The tracklist is as follows:

'Kicking & Screaming'

'My Own Worst Enemy'

'TunnelVision' (featuring John 5)

'Dance On Your Grave'

'Caught In A Dream'

'As Long As I Got The Music'

'I'm Alive'

'Dirty Power'

'Live The Life'

'Dream Forever'

'One Good Reason'

'Lost In The Light'

'Wishin''

Bonus tracks:

'Jumpin' Off The Wagon' (CD/DVD editions only)

'Ain't There Yet' (iTunes exclusive)

Audio samples from the entire record are available at Amazon.