RIVAL SONS guitarist Scott Holiday is featured in a new interview with Classic Rock Revisited founder Jeb Wright. An excerpt is available below:

Jeb: How does it feel to be finally breaking through after all of these years?

Scott: "Yeah, the old four year overnight success. It's killer to have people appreciate and dig what we would be doing regardless of all the praise. We're working hard, but having fun and all the energy surrounding the Sons just makes it that much more inspiring to keep it alive and come up with the next record."

Jeb: I read where you wrote and recorded the new album in less than three weeks. Most bands take ten times that long. What do you see as the advantages and disadvantages of working that fast?

Scott: "These days it seems to me that rock and roll is overproduced, overwritten and just over thought, which is not rock and roll at all. We decided to do it the way we've been doing it, to instill a more raw, off the cuff, feeling into the recordings. We don't write together until we're in the studio, mic’d up and ready to record. What you end up getting is usually one of the first takes of us, not only recording the song, but actually even ever playing the song together. There's even a few first takes on Head Down, meaning the first time we ever played the song together.

The raw, unadulterated, visceral energy is the plus side. The obvious down side would be the record suffering a lack of creativity, unrefined recording quality, or bad songs. It is fun and thorough to spend more time getting microscopic about everything during the recording, but I don't think its right for this kind of rock and roll, or this band, not yet anyway."?

Go to this location for the complete interview.

Rival Sons recently released a photo documentary from their show at Sweden Rock Festival earlier this year. The band's set on June 7th was captured by photographer Patrik Skoglow and compiled into a visual documentary, accompanied by live audio from the band's performance of their track 'On My Way'.

Watch the photo documentary below:

Rival Sons' new album, Head Down, is out now in Europe on jewel case CD, digi-sleeve CD and limited edition audiophile vinyl. Head Down is also available now on iTunes. The album is due to be released on physical formats in North America on January 22nd, 2013.

Head Down was recorded in Nashville, Tennessee with Grammy-nominated producer Dave Cobb (JAMIE JOHNSON, SHOOTER JENNINGS) and Grammy-winning engineer Vance Powell (JACK WHITE, THE WHITE STRIPES, KINGS OF LEON). The tracklisting is as follows:

'Keep On Swinging'

'Wild Animal'

'You Want To'

'Until the Sun Comes'

'Run From Revelation'

'Jordan'

'All The Way'

'The Heist'

'Three Fingers'

'Nava'

'Manifest Destiny Pt. 1'

'Manifest Destiny Pt. 2'

'True'

Check out the video for 'Keep On Swinging' below: