Vocalist SEBASTIAN BACH is featured in an interview with MayTheRockBeWithYou.com. An excerpt is available below:

Q: Do you get nervous around album release time?

Bach: "Yes I do, of course you do. You always want to top what you’ve done before and make everyone happy, but the thing is that if you make yourself happy and you’re happy with what you’ve made, deep down in your own heart that really is the ultimate accomplishment. If everybody didn’t like Kicking & Screaming I would still love it. I honestly love the record, and if I put my name on something that’s because I believe in it 100%. And I totally believe in every song on this record. From the production and the sound and the performances, everything about it I absolutely love 100%."

Q: Were the (new) songs ones you’d had kicking around or was it all new material written specifically for this?

Bach: "Well, the very first song we got going was ‘Tunnelvision’ with JOHN 5, who is a really big fan, and he came in with that music. I wrote all the words and the melodies. Nick Sterling joined the band when he was 19, and he had a ton of music. You know they say you have your whole life to write your first album? Well, Nick came at me with like 30 songs or 25 songs or something, and I liked a lot of them - well, most of them - so he brought in a ton of material. Then I sat down with Nick and wrote two songs at my house, 'One Good Reason' and 'Lost In The Light'. We went out to LA and we wrote two songs with Bob Marlette, the producer; 'Dirty Power' and the title track, and Bob helped us refine a lot of the other songs. So that’s basically how it came to be. If I hear music that I can emotionally relate to, then that’s what I want to sing to, and I totally feel all this music in my heart, so I don’t really care who likes what as long as the end result is this CD. I’m not one of these guys who wants to get paid all the money so I have to write all the songs, I just want to make a great CD. I don’t care who writes it. If the next door neighbour comes in with a good song, I’ll sing it. Good songs are rare, good songs are special and precious, so me as the vocalist, I’m always looking for some sort of music that I can emotionally relate to so I can put my emotion into the vocal."

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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.