Buick McKane (a.k.a. Emily) conducted an interview with Ohio's SKELETONWITCH prior to the band's October 29, 2009 concert in New Orleans, Louisiana. Watch the nine-minute chat below.

SKELETONWITCH will bring its brand of "blackened thrash" to New York City's acclaimed "Blackened Music Series" on November 14. The show will take place at Brooklyn's Union Pool and will also feature Relapse's BLACK ANVIL and is part of "The Blackened Weekend," which will also feature appearances from RWAKE, KRALLICE, SHRINEBUILDER and more. Previous installments in the series have featured the likes of REPULSION, PIG DESTROYER, BRUTAL TRUTH, EARTH and PELICAN.

'WITCH guitarist Scott Hedrick commented; "We're very pleased to be a part of the Blackened Music Series. Blackened is relatively new and has already put together some great shows. And we're stoked to play with BLACK ANVIL who we've heard great things about."

This show falls the day after the band wraps up two months of touring the U.S. supporting CHILDREN OF BODOM, then THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER. The group will then head to Europe for a co-headlining tour with old friends TOXIC HOLOCAUST and GOATWHORE.

"Breathing the Fire", the new album from SKELETONWITCH, sold around 3,500 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 151 on The Billboard 200 chart. The CD landed at No. 2 on the Top New Artist Albums (Heatseekers) chart, which lists the best-selling albums by new and developing artists, defined as those who have never appeared in the Top 100 of The Billboard 200.

"Breathing the Fire" was released on October 13 via Prosthetic Records. The CD's cover artwork was designed by Andrei Bouzikov, who has previously worked with MUNICIPAL WASTE and many others.