Legendary Rock Interviews' John Parks has issued a new interview with FOZZY frontman Chris Jericho. An excerpt follows:

Q: Century Media is definitely a strong label, all you have to do is look at what a band like QUEENSRŸCHE is doing. They’re also helped Fozzy’s profile tremendously in the past year but there is still so much work you have to do as a band as well. The video for 'Sandpaper' looks amazing, it really is like a fun, original MTV-era video, something you don’t always see anymore. You were also able to include M. Shadows of AVENGED SEVENFOLD in it which is even cooler. You’re obviously no stranger to being on camera but was it a lot of work to get it to where you wanted it?

A: "Anytime you film a video it’s a lot of work, especially when you have a minimal budget, you kind of have to do a run and gun shoot. You have to work a 16-hour day to get every single shot that you want and you have to have some people who are just as into it as we are as a band. Our director Shawn is a guy we’ve worked with many times before and when we told him our idea of doing an homage to Evil Dead he got it right away and Rich had the perfect location for it which was a friend’s place in rural Georgia. It all kind of fell together and that’s always been the Fozzy way, even if we don’t have a huge budget we are so a. respected, b. been around so long in the industry and c., legitimately nice people (laughs) that we can use some favors from certain friends who have certain talents which is a really cool thing because suddenly a five thousand dollar video budget looks like 5 million when you watch it. That’s kind of why the 'Sandpaper' video works though, because it was very cheaply made but it looks a lot more expensive than it is. Like you said, Century Media, what they’ve done with Queensryche is amazing and what they’ve done with us has been as well, we’re still really at the very beginning. We just started with them and whenever you start out with a new label there is always this feeling out process. 'What is this going to be like? Let’s give it a chance and see how it’s going to pay off for us' and I think last year we were one of the top 5 most profitable bands for Century Media so I think if we can get into that category then next record we should be getting even more support from them because now they know what they have so it’s great for everyone involved."

Read the full interview at this location.

Fozzy recently announced some headline dates during their upcoming tour supporting SAXON. Dates without Saxon include:

October

13 - The Exchange - Regina, SK
14 - Union Sound Hall - Winnipeg, MA
15 - POV's 65 - Spring Lake Park, MN
18 - 120 Tavern - Marietta, GA

Dates with Saxon and HALCYON WAY include:

September

12 - The Emporium - Patchogue, NY
13 - BB Kings - New York, NY
14 - Corona Theater - Montreal, QC
15 - The Phoenix - Toronto, ON
17 - Reverb - Redding, PA
18 - Peabody's - Cleveland, OH
19 - McGutty's - Dayton, OH
20 - Machine Shop - Flint, MI
21 - Majoe's - Joilet, IL
22 - The Rave Basement - Milwaukee, WI
26 - House of Blues - Dallas, TX
27 - Backstage Live - San Antonio, TX
28 - House of Blues - Houston, TX

October

1 - Club Red - Tempe, AZ
2 - Gastamp - Long Beach, CA
3 - Ramona Mainstage - Ramona, CA
4 - House of Blues - Los Angeles, CA
5 - M15 - Corona, CA
6 - DNA Lounge - San Francisco
8 - Studio Seven - Seattle, WA
9 - Mt. Tabor - Portland, WA
10 - The Venue - Vancouver, BC