Nuno Bettencourt On Extreme New Album: People Starvation Rock N' Roll Like This

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JAKARTA - In an interview with Tiago Ribeiro, Nuno Bettencourt spoke about the success of the global chart of the new album Extreme, Six, which was released last June 9 through earMUSIC.

Six landed in 10th position on the Billboard's Top Album Sales chart with sales for the first week of 12,500 copies. The set marks the band's band's first studio album since 2008.

The last album for Extreme to occupy the Top 10 position was III Sides To Every Story, which debuted at No. 10 in October 1992.

"I will compare our album to anyone's album; I feel confident," Nuno started.

"And I think the album itself - don't care about me or Extreme - if I hear the album and it's not us, I'll think the same way about the album now," he continued.

"I think this is a well-made album. The songs are there. I think it's chemistry and guitar playing. But more importantly, what's really there and connected to people is rock and roll mythology."

"That's what's really missing in guitar-driven music."

"When people see guitar players in a band with songs and arrangements and videos and everything, it's almost like seeing something that... People say it's very fresh, but for us, it's like the past."

"This is more of a reminder than anything else that you can still be excited to do all that. And people tell us they're starving - they're hungry for rock and roll like this in my opinion."