PRIMAL FEAR will release their new album, Delivering The Black, on January 24th in Europe and January 28th in North America via Frontiers Records. Vocalist Ralf Scheepers recently spoke with Matt Coe at DeadRhetoric.com about the upcoming record. An excerpt is available below:

Dead Rhetoric: Could you have ever imagined the band surviving for 15+ years given the changing tides and tastes of fans in the metal industry? What factor(s) do you attribute to Primal Fear’s consistency?

Scheepers: "The first answer is yes because we always knew that we will continue no matter if the market is good or not. We are not doing this music to be, as BRUCE DICKINSON said in one of his solo songs, a 'Tattooed Millionaire.'' It’s not possible to be a millionaire with music anywhere anymore. We are doing this because we love to be on stage and love to be making music with our buddies; it’s a live attitude for us. That’s the reason why we will do this until I fall off stage dead. The other key is people still dig us and love Primal Fear’s music. If you are heading into the charts that’s a good sign, it shows that people want to listen to our music and want to see us live. The reward for all the effort we go through is to please the fans and people with our music."

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Delivering The Black will be available in regular CD edition, deluxe edition with two bonus tracks and – in cooperation with Soulfood Music - vinyl edition and DVD and limited edition (666 copies only!) of a super-de-luxe version including a metallic eagle.

The tracklisting is as follows:

'King For A Day'

'Rebel Faction'

'When Death Comes Knocking'

'Alive & On Fire'

'Delivering The Black'

'Road To Asylum'

'One Night In December'

'Never Pray For Justice'

'Born With A Broken Heart'

'Innocent Man' *

'Inseminoid'

Man Without Shadow' *

'When Death Comes Knocking' (single edit) *

* Only available on Deluxe edition

DVD (Only available with Deluxe edition): 'When Death Comes Knocking' (video), 'King For A Day' (video), Making Of The Album (video).

Audio samples of all tracks on the album are available via Amazon.com. Click the link at the bottom of the page to check them out.

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Primal Fear's tour schedule is as follows:

January

24 - Regensburg, Germany - Airport Oberstraubling
25 - Memmingen, Germany - Kaminwerk
26 - Ludwigsburg, Germany - Rockfabrik
28 - Nuernberg, Germany - Hirsch
29 - Pratteln, Switzerland - Z7
31 - Madrid, Spain - Penelope

February

1 - Bilbao, Spain - Santana 27
2 - Barcelona, Spain - Razzmatazz 2
4 - Brescia, Italy - Colony
6 - Mannheim, Germany - Alte Seilerei
7 - Vosselaar, Belgium - Biebob
8 - Bochum, Germany - Matrix
9 - Munich, Germany - Feierwerk
10 - Berlin, Germany - K17
12 - Warsaw, Poland - Progresja
13 - Katowice, Poland - Megaclub
14 - Bratislava, Slovakia - Majestic Music Club
15 - Zlin, Czech Republic - MOR Cafe
16 - Kosice, Slovakia - Collosseum

Primal Fear are:

Ralf Scheepers – vocals

Alex Beyrodt – guitars

Magnus Karlsson – guitar, keyboards

Randy Black – drums

Mat Sinner – bass and vocals