ARMORED SAINT: Video Interview With JOEY VERA

July 5, 2012

Metal Sickness conducted an interview with bassist Joey Vera (ARMORED SAINT, FATES WARNING) on March 8, 2012 interview in Paris, France. You can now watch the chat below.

The classic first EP from ARMORED SAINT will be reissued on August 13 in Europe via Metal Blade Records with bonus tracks and etching on vinyl.

The track listing is as follows:

01. Lesson Well Learned
02. No Reason To Live
03. False Alarm
04. Stricken By Fate
05. On The Way

ARMORED SAINT will be heading back to Europe next week. Singer John Bush states, "I'm very excited for our upcoming summer dates. First, ARMORED SAINT has never played in France. Not only are we doing the awesome Sonisphere show, we are also doing a headline club show in Paris. About fucking time. Also, we're extremely pumped to play the Bang Your Head!!! festival again. It's one of the best metal shows in Germany. Plus, we get to be part of the Dong festival. First time there. The tour wouldn't be complete without playing in Holland, which is the first country ARMORED SAINT ever played in Europe back in 1989; and Zurich, where it will be our first time to headline in the beautiful country of Switzerland.

"ARMORED SAINT doesn't tour all that often so come out and join us, cause you're never sure when or if we'll be touring again. We'll be playing songs from our entire catalog as well as from our most recent record, 'La Raza', which we're extremely proud of."

"La Raza" sold around 2,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release. The CD landed at position No. 18 on the Top New Artist Albums (Heatseekers) chart, which lists the best-selling albums by new and developing artists, defined as those who have never appeared in the Top 100 of The Billboard 200. "La Raza" also entered the German Media Control chart at No. 96 and the Canadian Independent chart at No. 85.

"La Raza" was recorded at Burbank, California's Tranzformer Studios, which is owned by Dave Jerdan (ALICE IN CHAINS, JANE'S ADDICTION),who produced ARMORED SAINT's 1991 classic "Symbol of Salvation" and Bryan Carlstrom, who engineered the same album. The band's first new release since 2001's "Nod to the Old School" was produced by Joey Vera and engineered by Carlstrom and his assistant John Nuss.

Photo credit: Stephanie Cabral

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