FOZZY (feat. Chris Jericho) to release “Judas” October 13

I think it’s the right song at the right place at the right time. I think there’s been a lot of goodwill towards Fozzy over the years with a slow and steady build. And I think that I had such a huge year last year in 2016 in the WWE that a lot of people wanted to check out why I left the WWE to go to Fozzy and they gave us a chance when they hadn’t in the past. And as a result, heard this song Judas, which is our best song. So, hooky, so heavy, so dark the lyrics are very dark. Everyone can relate to those lyrics. I think like I said it’s just a great piece of timing and that so many people check out the band that never had in the past. And then hearing this amazing song with these lyrics that everybody can relate to ‘’Everyone I’ve Ever Loved I’ve Pushed Them All Away’’

Well I mean if you like Judas the song, there was actually a big debate with the record company as to what the first single should be. There’s so many great songs on this I think if this was like 1987 in the days of Hysteria and Appetite for Destruction when you saw a band that had five or six singles. This is that type of record. There was a lot of argument about whether Painless should be the single or Elevator or Weight Of My World and now Drinkin’ With Jesus is in contention so there’s a lot of great songs on the record. It’s very much a more compact album. It’s very much more about the songs and very much, is this song a single if it’s not if it doesn’t have a single potential let’s not even put it on the record so we have 11 singles on this record which is the way we wanted. It took a long time to get it right. We didn’t even record a couple of songs that we wrote for it, they just weren’t right. So these are the best 11 songs that we that we have, all of them could be hits. And as we’ve seen with Judas I think this record is going to take us to a completely different level, all across the board.

Before it was always Rich who wrote the music and I wrote the lyrics. We worked with Johnny Andrews last record for lights go out which was our biggest song to date and we decided we wanted to use an outside producer for this record. You know like Kiss with Bob Ezrin or Metallica with Bob Rock. Not that we’re those bands but it’s the same vibe that you want to do something different and there wasn’t anybody named Bob available apparently. So we went with Johnny Andrews because we had really enjoyed working with him on Lights Go Out and he produced the record and he co-wrote all the songs with Rich. I submitted all my lyrics and three of them were used which are Running With The Bulls, Wordsworth Way and Three Days In Jail but the rest are all Johnny and Rich collaborations. So they write them and I sell them. It really doesn’t matter. It’s just whatever’s best for the song. And we had a great songwriting team in Rich and Johnny and the contributions that I made, the lyrics that I contributed. And once again every song, not worried about if there’s a solo on it, Judas doesn’t even have a soul it’s just got a really cool middle Queen section. A lot of it would always be like well let’s write a song with a crazy solo in it in a 4-minute intro and all that’s gone. It’s very compact is very much what AC/DC did when they worked with Mutt Lang also a Robert. Lot of Robert’s man. We need to find Robert but we found Johnny and it’s even better for us.

We’ve been waiting to come back to Australia since 2013. We were lucky enough to tour there twice in 2013 on theSoundwave tour with Metallica and then with Steel Panther, great times. Australia is one of our favorite places to go. We’ve been there I think four or five times now with Fozzy but we haven’t been there since the Do You Want To Start A War Recordcame out which is 2014. I remember we listened to the demos for Do You Want To Start A War Record in our hotel room on that tour with Steel Panther so we got to make it back there. That’s one of our goals and I know there’s a lot of people waiting to see us and we are super excited about Australia. One of our favorite countries to tour in, Foztralia, Fozzy in Aussiehas to happen again. So we’re looking forward to doing that on this tour cycle. Hopefully in 2018 for sure.