FOZZY frontman Chris Jericho is featured in a new interview with Australia-based Loud Magazine. An excerpt is available below:

By Brian Fischer-Giffin

Fozzy is one of the few bands from the last decade that has built success from having an unashamed traditional metal style: All That Remains sold well over 100,000 copies. The latest effort (Chasing The Grail) sees the band extending their horizons to incorporate even more influences, resulting in a remarkably diverse album.

“It really is a diverse record for us,” the singer says. “There's a lot of different styles of music. It's still Fozzy, but there's ‘Under Blackened Skies’ or ‘Friday the 13th’ which are very fast, thrashing songs, but you also get ‘Wormwood’ a 14-minute song, ‘Broken Soul’ is like a Southern ballad and ‘New Day's Dawn’ is a European, CANDLEMASS, LACUNA COIL type of a song. So there really is a lot of diversity on the record, and I think that's something else that's taken the band to a different place. I know doing a 14-minute song is not something that every band tries and the ones that do don't always succeed, so just having that track on the album put us into a good place as well. We really, really took a long time to make this record something that people would consider to be a classic, and so far so good!”

It’s always been abundantly clear that the band’s main influences were 80s metal giants like DIO, MAIDEN and PRIEST, but Jericho also namechecks 70s rockers like JOURNEY, STYX and FOREIGNER as well as classic thrash bands. In the past however, by far the most common comparison made with the band has been to Ozzy Osbourne, particularly in regard to Jericho’s vocals. And rather than argue, the singer embraces the idea warmly.

“The Ozzy influence is tremendous because I never tried to sound like Ozzy,” he says. “I always wanted to try for a Bruce Dickinson, Halford type thing. Also we double-track all our vocals which is a classic Ozzy trick that gives you a more haunting, ghostly type of a feel. And there are a couple of tracks on this record where it was like, ‘Gee, did Ozzy stop into the studio and lay some tracks down?’ If you're going to be compared to somebody, it's not a bad comparison. I didn't try to sound that way, it's just one of those things that pleasantly happened.”

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As previously reported, Jericho will be heading to Edmonton for a special performance on Friday, November 26th. The band, which released their newest album Chasing The Grail earlier this year, will be playing live at Sports Central, located at 9221 - 34 Ave in Edmonton as part of their current world tour. The band will be offering a limited number of VIP tickets, which will give the band dinner and pictures with the band, an autographed FOZZY t-shirt and an early entry into the venue to watch the soundcheck.

All details on the Edmonton show are listed below.

Friday, November 26

Sports Central

9221 - 34 Ave

Edmonton, AB

For tickets - 780-436-6008

For VIP tickets - www.fozzyrock.com/vip

19-plus to purchase tickets