Vocalist SEBASTIAN BACH is featured in a new interview with UK-based Rocktopia. An excerpt from the interview is available below:

Q: When do you envisage a return to the UK stages? You were hoping to tour ‘Angel Down‘ over here but that never materialised.

Bach: "I never cancelled any tours. It seems like I’m always touring when I don’t have a record out and then when I put a record out I’m not on tour. I don’t know why that is. It’s messed up! But I have this thing where promoters expect me to go back to SKID ROW for some stupid fucked-up reason just because everybody else is doing it and they think that everybody has to feel like everybody else. But I’m not like everybody else and my whole reason for getting into music is to make new music. I’m not going back to Skid Row and these promoters dangle a carrot in front of me: ‘If you go back, we’ll give you a big tour’. But it’s not happening, so I don’t know what to tell you. It’s very frustrating. Bands and musicians don’t book tours.

Everybody always asks me: ‘Are you coming here?’ I’d come anywhere, I’d play any fucking places. I love playing! But the promoters are the guys that bring me over there. As soon as somebody in the fucking UK asks me to come play there, I will be there 100%, anytime. I’d come tomorrow. I’d love to! We had a great tour there last time. It was unbelievable. We did some great headline shows, eleven shows in eleven nights, or something like that, and we had a great tour. English fans are fucking incredible, so I really want to come back."

Q: Do you have any kind of contact with any of the Skid Row guys?

Bach: "No."

Q: And you don’t want to?

Bach: "If you got fired from a job, would you be going back to the job and say: ‘Hey man, what’s going on?’. You’d be like: ‘Fuck your fucking stupid job!’ I mean, if you got fired from this magazine, would you be calling the magazine all the time? I’m a human being, if you don’t want me in your band, I’m not going to beg you to be in your band, I’ll just create my own band!"

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As previously reported, Bach will release Kicking & Screaming, on September 23rd in Europe and on September 27th in North America via Frontiers Records.

Kicking & Screaming tracklisting:

'Kicking & Screaming'

'My Own Worst Enemy'

'TunnelVision' (featuring John 5)

'Dance On Your Grave'

'Caught In A Dream'

'As Long As I Got The Music'

'I'm Alive'

'Dirty Power'

'Live The Life'

'Dream Forever'

'One Good Reason'

'Lost In The Light'

'Wishin''

Bonus tracks:

'Jumpin' Off The Wagon' (CD/DVD editions only)

'Ain't There Yet' (iTunes exclusive)

Audio samples from the entire record are available at Amazon.