FIREWIND guitarist Gus G. (OZZY OSBOURNE) is featured in a new interview with Guitar World. An excerpt is available below:

GW: You did a North American tour last year, and you played one or two new songs in those shows. When you were playing those songs, their titles were not announced. Did they end up on the album?

Gus: "Yeah, they did! We actually did one song, which was 'Losing My Mind'. We played it at the last show of the tour in LA, and people loved it."

GW: You must have been happy to do that tour because you went to North America after a long time and it was the first tour after the release of Days Of Defiance.

Gus: "It was officially part of the touring cycle for Days Of Defiance, but the timing was really wrong. It was one year later, after the album. But the tour was also done for the reason that we wanted to connect with our fans. We did this tour not to really promote the last album. I mean, of course, we did that as well, but we did it because we wanted to go and really see what's happening, what's the band's dynamic out there, who are our fans in the U.S.

We wanted to explore all these markets because we were headliners for the first time, and it was a good idea to capitalize my success with Ozzy and my popularity. So in that sense, it was good timing to strike while the iron is hot and just go back and really introduce my band. In a way, we got a brand-new chance."

GW: What is your assessment from that tour? Do you think you have good fan following in the U.S. as compared to other territories?

Gus: "Yeah, America is still a brand new territory for us and we've done only two tours there in the past. We've not had any significant amount of sales or anything, but there's definitely an underground fan base that is very loyal and really hardcore, and that was really nice to see at every venue. We would go from places like New York, Montreal and Chicago to really small, 'middle of nowhere' places. Fans would show up. They would travel and have their T-shirts and limited editions and imports and all of that stuff. It was overwhelming."

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The band recently revealed dates for the UK leg of their European tour with LEAVES EYES. The new dates are as follows:

September

13 - Cardiff, UK - Clwb Ifor Bach
14 - Manchester, UK - Moho
15 - Dublin, Ireland - Button Factory
16 - Belfast, Ireland - Spring And Airbrake
18 - Sheffield, UK - Corporation
19 - Nuneaton, UK - Queens Hall
20 - Plymouth, UK - White Rabbit
21 - Southampton, UK - Talking Heads
22 - London, UK - O2 Islington Academy
23 - Margate, UK - TBA

Firewind will release their new album Few Against Many on May 21st and May 22nd in North America.

Their new video, which was shot during the band’s latest shows in their homeland Greece by Colin Marshall. Check out 'Wall Of Sound' below: