UK-based ONSLAUGHT guitarist Nige Rockett is featured in a new interview with Legendary Rock Interviews. An excerpt is available below:

LRI: Evolution is important for an artist. Would you even be comfortable if you were still making music similar to the stuff you made in the early eighties?

Nige: "There’s no way we could NOT evolve, we’re a completely different band than we were back then and have grown so much over the years. Having said that, we are proud of the past and one thing we do want to do, kind of as a nod to the past is to re-record the In Search Of Sanity record (1989 record originally recorded with GRIM REAPER vocalist Steve Grimmett in place of Sy Keeler). It’s not something we’d ever like to do with the earlier Onslaught albums like The Force or Power From Hell but with Sy back on vocals we feel we have a really strong reason for wanting to do that. Sy was the original singer for that record but when circumstances changed he never appeared on that record. I think his absence kinda diluted the Onslaught sound at a kind of strange time for the band and with a major label involved things kind of got messed up which eventually led to the demise of the band."

LRI: When you guys finally did reunite, was there ever a thought that you might do it without Sy back on vocals?

Nige: "No, no, I think it was the only way it was ever going to work. As much as Steve Grimmett was a great singer he was never really the right guy for Onslaught and the fans never really took to him in a friendly kind of way and no matter how you look at it Sy has always been considered the Onslaught singer, you know? I think most fans favorite album from the band was The Force album which obviously included Sy as the vocalist and Paul Mahoney, the vocalist on Power From Hell record, I don’t think could have handled any of our other material so it was clearly going to be Sy Keeler or nothing really; it had to be the lineup the fans wanted to see so that was what we went for and Sy was more than up for doing it."

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Onslaught's new album, VI is out now via AFM Records. Their appropriately-titled sixth studio album was mixed with ‘Thomas ‘Plec’ Johansson (TIAMAT, SCAR SYMMETRY) at the award winning Panic Room studios in Skara, Sweden.

Check out BraveWords scribe Mark Gromen’s review of VI here.

VI tracklisting:

‘A New World Order’

‘Chaos Is King’

‘Fuel For My Fire’

‘Children Of The Sand’

‘Slaughterize’

‘66’Fucking’6’

‘Cruci-Fiction’

‘Dead Man Walking’

‘Enemy Of My Enemy’

A bonus track on the limited digipak and 2LP-vinyl will be a re-recorded version of ‘Shellshock’, featuring legendary Japanese thrashers UNITED and taken from the 1989 album, In Search Of Sanity.

‘Chaos Is King’ lyric video:

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