Italy's SpazioRock recently spoke with GOTTHARD guitarist Leo Leoni about the band's new album, Firebirth. Watch below:

Gotthard recently released the official video for their new single, 'Starlight', which was released on April 20th. The clip was filmed in an old animal food factory near Berlin, which has already made a name for itself: among others, some scenes from the film Inglorious Bastards were shot there.

In the video long-time Gotthard fans were immortalized. The rock fans can be seen in the clip doing what they love to do: a concert crowd, urging on their band as loudly as possible.

The filming went on into the middle of the night and, like the album title Firebirth, it was extremely fiery: the band performed in the middle of blazing flames in honour of their Firebirth. For Gotthard, the fiery filming was another event together in the good old tradition.

“During the filming of the video, we could feel again that the chemistry between us and the fans was great”, the musicians said. “We are sure this will be seen in the clip”.

For the band, it is very important that some of those who have been fans for years should play a role in the filming. “We simply have the feeling that not only those of us in the band have become even closer but also our Gotthard-family, those who are in our surroundings, are close to us and shared with us the difficult unhappy months after Steve’s death,. We want to show this in the video: we are a community and we are rocking together again!”

Check out the 'Starlight' video below:

The cover artwork and tracklisting were recently revealed for Firebirth , due out June 1st by Nuclear Blast/Warner Music (in Switzerland Musikvertrieb). A total of 13 songs will be on the CD, among them one with the title 'Where Are You', which is dedicated to their late singer Steve Lee.

The album – earthy, rocking and played with a great deal of enjoyment – goes back to the old strengths of the band. “We have remembered our roots and deliberately given the album the pure straightforward Gotthard sound. Our goal was to concentrate on the most important thing – the songs,” explained Leo Leoni, who produced the album together with Paul Lani.

As well as in the regular CD, Firebirth will feature in a specially presented limited edition. The album cover depicts the firebird Phoenix, which symbolically rises “from the ashes to the sky” – this line expresses what each Gotthard fan feels and underlines the turbulent time that Gotthard has gone through in the past months.

It will be in Latin America that Gotthard experiences their baptism of fire – the world tour starts there in May, before the band headlines several important European festivals. The band starts the German live premiere as co-headliner at the Bang Your Head festival in Balingen. An important headline tour round the halls of Europe is already planned for autumn.

Firebirth tracklist:

'Starlight'

'Give Me Real'

'Remember It’S Me'

'Fight'

'Yippie Aye Yay'

'Tell Me'

'Shine'

'The Story Is Over'

'Right On'

'S.O.S.'

'Take It All Back'

'I Can'

'Where Are You'