In a brand new interview with Australian Musician, EXTREME guitarist Nuno Bettencourt spoke in regards to the “funk” affect in his taking part in. He stated (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “I feel it is form of simply an attraction. I am the youngest of 10 youngsters, so I grew up round a number of completely different genres and completely different music going from bed room to bed room. However I feel being Portuguese, there was all the time a rhythmic factor in my DNA and being round Portuguese music and the percussiveness of it. However I feel early on listening to James Brown and TOWER OF POWER and… However then the rock bands that I cherished, that lots of people contemplate a few of the biggest rock bands, I used to be all the time drawn to the funkier facet of what they did. It wasn’t all the time loads. However AEROSMITH, to me, was funky. There was occasions when [LED] ZEPPELIN was as effectively, with songs like ‘The Crunge’ and issues that have been simply actually like attention-grabbing that means. After which VAN HALEN as effectively — ‘Outta Love [Again]’, ‘Imply Road’, issues that felt like rock funk; it is not conventional funk. I used to be all the time into QUEEN as effectively. I used to essentially be into songs like ‘Dragon Assault’ and issues that simply had a little bit bit extra of a groove to it, although I really like rock and roll all the best way round. However as a composer, that all the time attracted me. And I feel that had loads to do with the truth that I performed drums first as effectively. And I all the time discovered form of the wonder not within the drumming that is advanced, however the drumming that is actually simplified, that is a pocket. There was one thing all the time enticing to me about that.

EXTREME‘s headlining “Thicker Than Blood” world tour kicked off on August 2 and can see the band seem throughout the U.S., Australia, Japan and Europe, together with particular visitors LIVING COLOUR (U.S., Australia and U.Ok. solely) and THE LAST INTERNATIONALE (Europe solely).

EXTREME‘s new album, “Six”, which got here out on June 9 through earMUSIC, landed at place No. 10 on Billboard’s Prime Album Gross sales chart with first-week gross sales of 12,500 copies. The set marked the band’s first studio album since 2008. The act was final within the Prime 10 with “III Sides To Each Story”, which debuted and peaked at No. 10 again in October 1992.

EXTREME has offered 10 million data, topped the Billboard Scorching 100, packed main venues on a number of continents, memorably carried out on the Freddie Mercury tribute live performance in London, and often averages over 5 million month-to-month listeners on Spotify. Alongside the best way, everybody from Tom Morello of RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE and Brian Might of QUEEN to John Mayer publicly sung their praises. Plus, they performed to a sold-out crowd at Fenway Park opening for AEROSMITH. On prime of that, Gary Cherone was lead singer for VAN HALEN (“Van Halen III”) and has recorded and carried out with Joe Perry, whereas Nuno has recorded and carried out with Steven Tyler and Rihanna.