JON OLIVA'S PAIN / SAVATAGE frontman Jon Oliva is featured in a new audio interview on the weekly Belgian metal show Whiplash, broadcast by Studio Brussel. Check it out at the following links:

Part I

Part II

As previously reported, in a recent interview with BW&BK;, Oliva discussed the planned setlist for the upcoming tour in support of the new JOP album, Global Warning:

“I’m going to phase out a lot of the Savatage standards that people have heard me play for the last 20 years," Oliva reveals. "I’m not going to phase out the amount of Savatage material being played, but I’m going to do more obscure material and the more interesting stuff. We’re going to do ‘Chance’ in its entirety this year, for example, we’re going to do ‘Twisted Little Sister’ which I haven’t done since the early ‘80s. We’re doing ‘When The Crowds Are Gone’ this year instead of ‘Believe’. I think we’re doing six songs off the new album, a couple off the last one (Maniacal Renderings), and the rest of the set is going to be made up of obscure Savatage songs. There are songs I have to play, like ‘Hall Of The Mountain King’, but I’m going to mix it up a bit. We’re even goinng to do a Doctor Butcher song on stage this year.”

The Doctor Butcher song in question is 'Don't Talk To Me', featured on the band's debut.

Watch for the complete interview in BW&BK; #111.

Global Warning tour dates are currently as follows:

April

23 - Hamburg, Germany - Headbanger's Ballroom
25 - Haugesund, Norway - Karmøygeddon Metal Festival
26 - Copenhagen, Denmark - The Rock
28 - Aschaffenburg, Germany - Colos-Saal
29 - Wien, Austria - Planet Music

May

1 - Pratteln, Switzerland - Z7
2 - Piacenza, Italy - Fillmore
3 - Florence, Italy - Viper Club
6 - Vitoria, Spain - Azkena
7 - Madrid, Spain - Caracol
8 - Barcelona, Spain - Salamandra 1
10 - Athens, Greece - Gagarin
11 - Thessaloniki, Greece - venue tba
13 - Essen, Germany - Turock
14 - Tilburg, Holland - 013

September

27 - Atlanta, GA - Center Stage (ProgPower USA)
29 - St Louis, MO - Pop’s

October

3 - Detroit, MI - I-Rock
4 - Cleveland, OH - Agora Ballroom
10 - Springfield, VA - Jaxx
11 - Raleigh, NC - Volume 11