Journalist Greg Prato of SongFacts.com recently interviewed BLACK STAR RIDERS guitarist Scott Gorham about the band’s debut album, All Hell Breaks Loose, guitarist/songwriter/lyricist STEVIE RAY VAUGHN, and touring plans for North America.

About the new album, Gorham states: “It's totally different recording a BSR album to any THIN LIZZY album that I've ever done. One of the main differences was in the time that we didn't take to do it. This was literally twelve songs in twelve days. No kidding. And that's because that's how Kevin Shirley likes to work. He doesn't like to sit there and put the microscope on this note or that note or this passage or this guitar tone. So it was kind of a pressurized situation. It was really a fun thing to do it that way. I'm not sure that any of us are going to do it that way again, but he did catch a lot of what we were all about on stage, especially for the last year and a half. He got some good stuff."

Read the entire interview here.

Black Star Riders have uploaded two European / UK tour report videos. In Part 1, Ricky Warwick gives us an update on the first ever Black Star Riders tour, as well as the video shoot for the second single 'Hey Judas', taken from the band's debut album, All Hell Breaks Loose.

In Part 2 we spend a few moments with Mark Hylands, the director of the video for 'Hey Judas'.

Black Star Riders' debut album, All Hell Breaks Loose, is out now via Nuclear Blast and the band is gearing up for their first show ever this Thursday, May 30th, at The Marshall Theatre at Milton Keynes, UK, which is sold out. Check out their stage set-up below:

Produced and mixed by the legendary Kevin Shirley (LED ZEPPELIN, IRON MAIDEN, AEROSMITH, RUSH), All Hell Breaks Loose contains the following 11 songs:

'All Hell Breaks Loose'

'Bound For Glory'

'Kingdom Of The Lost'

'Bloodshot'

'Kissin’ The Ground'

'Hey Judas'

'Hoodoo Voodoo'

'Valley Of The Stones'

'Someday Salvation'

'Before The War'

'Blues Ain't So Bad'

A special edition digi-pak will feature a bonus track, 'Right To Be Wrong', and a Making-Of DVD. Listen to the album streaming below:

Check out the review from BraveWords scribe Martin Popoff here.

Black Star Riders has the following shows booked:

May

30 - The Marshall Theatre - Milton Keynes, UK

June

1 - Max-Aicher-Arena - Inzell, Germany
2 - Loreley - St. Goarshausen, Germany
8 - Sweden Rock Festival - Solvesborg, Sweden

November

22 - O2 Academy - Bournemouth, UK
23 - Shepherds Bush Empire - London, UK
24 - O2 Academy - Bristol, UK
26 - Junction - Cambridge, UK
27 - UEA - Norwich, UK
29 - Hard Rock Hell - Gwynedd, North Wales
30 - Wulfrun Hall - Wolverhampton, UK

December

1 - University Solus - Cardiff, UK
2 - O2 Academy - Oxford, UK
5 - Ironworks - Inverness, Scotland
6 - Picturehouse - Edinburgh, Scotland
7 - O2 Academy - Newcastle, UK
8 - O2 Academy - Leeds, UK
10 - The Assembly Rooms - Leamington, UK
12 - Rock City - Nottingham, UK
13 - Ritz - Manchester, UK
14 - Academy - Dublin, Ireland
15 - Limelight - Belfast, N. Ireland