PRIMAL FEAR bassist Mat Sinner is featured in a new interview with Norway's Metal Express Radio. An excerpt is available below.

MER: Primal Fear's music has primarily been riff driven. (New album) 16.6 seems to have the most eclectic material to date, and seems to deviate somewhat from the riff driven material that is typically found on Primal Fear albums. Is this the new direction of Primal Fear?

Sinner: "Our target was to record the most interesting album of our career. We’ve recorded over 70 minutes of material and we finished the album at the point when everybody in the band was happy. It was important for me that we wrote and recorded more traditional metal in the early Primal Fear way and still have some new exciting elements on this album, we’ve never recorded before. For the future I really don’t know at the moment – just let us play our world tour until the next summer, then we will decide, if we will record a bombastic album with an entire orchestra or a pure metal album with just two guitars, bass, drums and vocals – we will see and this is the freedom we need to create our music!"

MER: Primal Fear recently had to cancel their appearance at the Unhloly Fest in Czech Republic, June 29/09. It has been said that this festival was a fake and not a serious metal event. Can you fill us in on the details behind this debauchery?

Sinner: "Our agency is booking the flights for the band and crew as the advance payment arrived on their account. They received a legally correct contract from these guys, but never a cent. As some other prominent bands cancelled their appearance it was clear, that this is a bad situation for the bands and of course for the fans. We have a very similar situation now, again in an east European country and we hope it will not be the same disaster!"

Go to this location for the complete interview.

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As previously reported, Primal Fear's North American tour is sponsored by BW&BK;/BraveWords.com. The band's tour schedule is as follows:

August

5 - Mexico City, Mexico - Circo Volador
6 - Bogota, Colombia - Downtown
8 - Buenos Aires, Argentina - Teatro Flores
9 - Sao Paulo, Brazil - Carioca

September

7 - St. Paul Minnesota - Station 4
8 - Los Angeles, California - Key Club
9 - Springfield, Virgina - Jaxx
10 - Atlanta, Georgia - Center Stage (ProgPower X pre-party)
12 - New York, NY - Blender Theater
13 - Montreal, Quebec - Foufones

October

23 - Barcelona, Spain - Salamandra 1
24 - Madrid, Spain - Heineken
25 - Navarra, Spain - Sala Totem
26 - Bordeaux, France - Theatre Barbey
28 - Milan, Italy - Music Dome
29 - Pratteln, Switzerland - Z7
30 - Geiselwind, Germany - Event Halle
31 - Hamburg, Germany - Markthalle

November

2 - tba (Scandinavia)
3 - tba (Scandinavia)
4 - Bollnas, Sweden - Militaerpalatset
6 - Hamburg, Germany - Markthalle
7 - Olsberg, Germany - Schuetzenhalle
8 - Bochum, Germany - Matrix
9 - Munich, Germany - Backstage
11 - Ludwigsburg, Germany - Rockfabrik
13 - Pilsen. Czech Republic - Serikovka
14 - Kurim, Czech Republic - House Of Culture

Sinner recently spoke with BW&BK; scribe Carl Begai about the band's new album, 16.6 (Before The Devil Knows Your Dead). Go to this location for the complete story. Click here to read Mark Gromen's review of 16.6.