BW&BK; recently caught up with BENEDICTUM vocalist Veronica Freeman to discuss the band's new album, Seasons Of Tragedy. The following is an excerpt from the interview, with Freeman commenting on performing in Europe in support of their debut album, Uncreation:

“It happened so fast that it wasn’t until after it was over that we realized what was happening," says Freeman. Pete (Wells / guitars) actually pointed out to me that for a first album we had done something amazing. Our first show ever was in San Diego opening for Lynch Mob, and we couldn’t get a show to save our lives. Our second show was at the Gods Of Metal Festival in Italy. It was mindblowing, especially being a new band on the scene. I remember when I got the email saying we got the festival; I was beside myself because I’d never played in front of that many people before and neither had anyone else in the band. It was like, what do you do? How do you act? It was incredible to be able to do that, and to play the Wacken Open Air… I was joking around about that saying one day we would. All of a sudden it was like ‘Shit! What am I going to wear for Wacken?’ (laughs). The biggest thing for me, though, it wasn’t the number of people, it was singing the stuff and looking out in the crowd. They knew all the words, and that blew my mind. It’s just one of those things that you never really think about."

The summer festival tour eventually led to a support tour with Doro.

“That was the other thing that blew me away. The month before we got that tour I had been saying to Pete that two people I’d love to tour with are Dio and Doro. Four weeks later we got the news that we'd be on the Doro tour, and I’m surprised you didn’t hear the scream I let out (laughs). Of course, I thought it was going to be cool to have our own tour bus and stuff because it was our first real tour and I didn’t know any better. I ended up being the only woman on the bus we shared with Winterborn. It was like out of a movie. I got off the plane all excited and exhausted, and there’s this really beautiful bus. I started hauling my stuff over and they’re like ‘Uh, no, the generic yellow one is yours…’(laughs). It was a great experience, though. We could not have been in a better situation."

Watch for the full interview in BW&BK; #109.

As previously reported, Benedictum have uploaded another new song, entitled 'Steel Rain', from their forthcoming album, Seasons Of Tragedy, for streaming on their official MySpace page. The song 'Beast In The Field' is also available. Go to this location to check out the material.

The Seasons Of Tragedy tracklist is as follows: 'Dawn Of Seasons' (intro), 'Shell Shock', 'Burn It Out', 'Bare Bones', 'Within The Solace', 'Beast In The Field', 'Legacy', 'Nobody's Victim', 'Balls To The Wall' (ACCEPT cover), 'Steel Rain', 'Seasons Of Tragedy'. It will also be available initially in a digipak edition featuring a cover of RAINBOW's 'Catch The Rainbow'.