SEPULTURA guitarist Andreas Kisser joined UGLY KID JOE on stage on Wednesday, August 9 throughout the latter band’s live performance at this 12 months’s Leyendas Del Rock pageant in Villena, Alicante, Spain to carry out a canopy of the MOTÖRHEAD traditional “Ace Of Spades”. Fan-filmed video of his look will be seen under.

This previous Might, UGLY KID JOE kicked off its first U.S. tour in 27 years.

UGLY KID JOE is touring in help of its newest studio album, “Rad Wings Of Future”, which got here out final October.

“Rad Wings Of Future” noticed UGLY KID JOE re-teaming producer Mark Dodson who was behind the desk for the band’s debut album, “America’s Least Wished”, which celebrated its thirtieth anniversary final 12 months.

Talking to France’s Loud TV concerning the “Rad Wings Of Future” album title, UGLY KID JOE frontman Whitfield Crane stated: “I like JUDAS PRIEST. UGLY KID JOE has a penchant for poking slightly humor into the universe — the universe wants slightly humor — and likewise giving respect to issues that we love. So we love JUDAS PRIEST. We’re from California. We are saying ‘rad’ all day lengthy. So ‘Rad Wings Of Future’.”

Concerning how first single “That Ain’t Livin'” got here collectively, Crane stated: “I wrote the riff in Greece. We labored on the music as a band in Mallorca, Spain. We tracked the music in El Paso, Texas. After which we could not end all of the vocals in El Paso. So then I discovered myself residing in Lisbon, Portugal. And I flew to London to fulfill the producer and I tracked the vocals in London.”

Requested if the remainder of “Rad Wings Of Future” is musically just like “That Ain’t Livin'”, Whitfield stated: “Effectively, it is arduous for me to explain it, ‘trigger I am so near it; I am actually near it. However yeah, the primary observe, ‘That Ain’t Livin”… Additionally we love old-school AC/DC; I imply, I like for AC/DC. I wrote the riff for ‘That Ain’t Livin” on an island in Greece and I had the riff. And so we wrote that music. And it is actually an homage to ‘Powerage’[-era] AC/DC. In order that’s that music. However there’s 9 different songs, and there is quite a lot of totally different frequencies that we’re embracing.”

As for the lyrical themes lined on “Rad Wings Of Future”, Crane stated: “‘That Ain’t Livin” is simply — should you really feel caught in a nine-to-five rut, cease. Embrace life… We cowl a model of THE KINKS‘ ‘Lola’, which is basically cool; we did nice on it. However I am going to let the thematic construction of the album, I am going to let that stay a thriller for somebody to determine themselves. I feel if I mission what I feel it’s, generally that takes away from any individual feeling what it’s for them.”

After a 15-year hiatus, UGLY KID JOE reformed in 2012 and has toured extensively all through Europe and the remainder of the world.

The band launched the EP “Stairway To Hell” in 2012 and the full-length “Uglier Than They Used Ta Be” in 2015.

Three years in the past, Crane informed Eonmusic about UGLY KID JOE‘s enormous success on the again of single “Every thing About You” in 1991: “‘Eye of the storm’ is an efficient method to put it, as a result of it simply was all occurring at a lethal quick gait. And it was lots — it was lovely and likewise very difficult, as a result of there’s lots of people that encompass the enterprise of music which are filled with shit. However if you’re 23 [or] 24, you do not know tips on how to negotiate that, so on one hand, it was tremendous enjoyable and we did all of the issues you must do at that age, and then again, it was an excessive amount of for me. However we survived it, and I can cope with all of it now.”