{"id":389,"date":"2012-02-10T18:59:13","date_gmt":"2012-02-11T02:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/?p=389"},"modified":"2012-05-02T16:18:11","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T10:48:11","slug":"interview-primal-fear-frontman-talks-about-new-album-audio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/2012\/02\/10\/interview-primal-fear-frontman-talks-about-new-album-audio\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Primal Fear Frontman Talks About New Album (Audio)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Andrew Bansal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/pf2012.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-390\" title=\"pf2012\" src=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/pf2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/pf2012.jpg 500w, http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/pf2012-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/pf2012-451x300.jpg 451w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>German power metal veterans Primal Fear have had a solid career so far, and with their latest album &#8220;Unbreakable&#8221;, they have done their reputation no harm whatsoever. The strength of this new material has gained widespread approval from fans and critics alike, and everyone now awaits Primal Fear&#8217;s touring run in 2012 on which they promise to perform most of these songs.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>On January 11th, a couple of weeks before the album&#8217;s North American release, I caught up with frontman Ralf Scheepers to talk about the album, the band&#8217;s touring plans, the &#8220;Rock Meets Classic&#8221; event, and a few other things in a brief interview. Listen to the 7-minute conversation below, and check out the band&#8217;s<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PrimalFearOfficial\" target=\"_blank\">facebook page<\/a><\/strong> for more info.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/album_reviews\/2012\/01\/01\/album-review-primal-fear-unbreakable\/\" target=\"_blank\">Album Review<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><object width=\"300\" height=\"300\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"opaque\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/media\/swf\/player\/mixcloudLoader.swf?feed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mixcloud.com%2Fmetalassault%2Fprimal-fear-interview-with-ralf-scheepers%2F&amp;embed_uuid=20992938-5eff-4a70-9f18-d991be12f65c&amp;stylecolor=&amp;embed_type=widget_standard\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"300\" height=\"300\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/media\/swf\/player\/mixcloudLoader.swf?feed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mixcloud.com%2Fmetalassault%2Fprimal-fear-interview-with-ralf-scheepers%2F&amp;embed_uuid=20992938-5eff-4a70-9f18-d991be12f65c&amp;stylecolor=&amp;embed_type=widget_standard\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" wmode=\"opaque\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"display: block; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0; padding: 3px 4px; color: #02a0c7;\"><a style=\"color: #02a0c7; font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/metalassault\/primal-fear-interview-with-ralf-scheepers\/?utm_source=widget&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;utm_campaign=base_links&amp;utm_term=resource_link\" target=\"_blank\">Primal Fear: Interview With Ralf Scheepers<\/a><span> by <\/span><a style=\"color: #02a0c7; font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/metalassault\/?utm_source=widget&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;utm_campaign=base_links&amp;utm_term=profile_link\" target=\"_blank\">Metalassault<\/a><span> on <\/span><a style=\"color: #02a0c7; font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/?utm_source=widget&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;utm_campaign=base_links&amp;utm_term=homepage_link\" target=\"_blank\"> Mixcloud<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Andrew Bansal German power metal veterans Primal Fear have had a solid career so far, and with their latest album &#8220;Unbreakable&#8221;, they have done their reputation no harm whatsoever. The strength of this new material has gained widespread approval from fans and critics alike, and everyone now awaits Primal Fear&#8217;s touring run in 2012 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/2012\/02\/10\/interview-primal-fear-frontman-talks-about-new-album-audio\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Interview: Primal Fear Frontman Talks About New Album (Audio)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":392,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions\/392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}