FOZZY released their latest album, “Boombox,” last year. The critically-acclaimed record was a strong follow-up to the band’s 2017 mainstream breakthrough, “Judas,” and spawned the Top 20 Mainstream Rock radio hit, “I Still Burn.” The album also features the Top 10 singles “Nowhere To Run” and “Sane.”
Recently, guitarist Billy Grey told the “Cheap Heat Productions” podcast that the band is making better albums as time goes on, and he gives big props to producer Johnny Andrews.
Grey said: “The last two records — actually, the last three records — we started [working] with [producer] Johnny Andrews on [2014’s] ‘Do You Wanna Start A War’ [album]; he did ‘Lights Go Out’ and a couple of other songs on that. But then, on the ‘Judas’ record [2017] and this past record ‘Boombox’ [2022], he wrote and produced the whole record.”
Grey then clarified: “As far as lyrics and melody and stuff like that, he and Rich [Ward, guitar] and Chris [Jericho, vocals] did. But him as a producer opens up just so much of what the band needed to move forward. That was kind of like a new beginning, and the best is yet to come.”
Grey also said that radio airplay has been instrumental in the band reaching new audiences.
“Radio is a big deal here in the U.S. because that’s where people hear you,” he said. “And we have Spotify now; we have all the different streaming outlets. But radio still, in the U.S., is a big thing, so it really has helped us a lot.”
“The ‘Boombox’ album is doing really well,” he continued. “[The single] ‘I Still Burn’ did really well on radio here for us. And it’s full of hooks. The album has been taken really well here. And we play quite a few songs off of it live; especially when we come out this spring on the tour, we’re gonna have a lot of songs off of it. Yeah, it’s been taken really well here, actually — really well.”
Earlier this week it was announced that FOZZY will begin a U.S. tour with Ugly Kid Joe and Pistols At Dawn beginning in May. The trek marks the first Ugly Kid Joe U.S. tour in 27 years. The band reformed in 2012 and has played primarily in Europe and other parts of the world.
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