The band exploded out of CBGB (Country, Blue Grass and Blues, a club that was a forum for American punk and punk-influenced bands such as The Ramones, Misfits, Television, the Patti Smith Group) in the late 1980s and landed on MTV, the cover of Rolling Stone and stadium stages around the world with its Grammy Award-winning, multi-platinum debut album “Vivid” and its hit single “Cult of Personality.”

After great success, creative differences led to the breakup of the band in 1995 allowing each member to focus on solo work and individual creative projects. However, the band re-formed in 2000 and three years later they released the critically acclaimed album “Collideøscope.”

Now, with the release of their first new studio album in five years, “The Chair In The Doorway,” on Sept. 15, via Megaforce Records, they are back and fierce as ever. The band will perform Wednesday, Sept. 2, at the Bottle & Cork.

Band members include Corey Glover, singer; Vernon Reid, guitarist; Doug Wimbish, bassist; and Will Calhoun, drummer. Glover took a few moments recently to answer questions about the new album and this tour.

Michael Sprouse: I’ve read that this tour is occurring to promote your fifth full-length album, “The Chair In The Doorway,” which will be released Sept. 15. What would you like the public to know about this new album? What 5 words would you use to describe it?

Corey Glover: Let’s call it “a gathering from the heart.”

MS: The members of the band are now between the ages of 44 and 54 and it’s been nine years since the band’s resuscitation. What changes are most noticeable in your audiences and/or your fan base between now and the late ‘80s when the band found mainstream success?

CG: We have a wide-range audience that comes to the gigs. A lot of parents with their kids are coming. Guitar Hero 3 helped make this connection.

MS: As individual artists and as a group, in what ways musically do you feel that you may have evolved since that time?

CG: We think things out much better due to us having conversations with each other. Everyone sees the video and thinks we’re a band from the 80s or we broke up or we’re not together. But it’s not a reunion thing. In some form or another, all of us have been playing with each other. Will and Doug have a band that I would sit in every now and then. Vernon had a band that I’d come in and do some stuff. Even in those times when we weren’t together we were still playing together. I think we were a little more concerned about what needed to be on this record, and what needed to be said.

MS: How has the tour been to date? How long is the tour and what are your next stops?

CG: We played with “The Roots” to start the tour off. We will travel to 19 U.S. States plus Toronto, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico and Chile. We start our European tour in mid-November of this year.

MS: After your show, what impression of Living Colour would you like current fans to take away from the experience? What about attendees who may be seeing Living Colour for the first time?

CG: We are just like you...the real workers that live in this thing called life. Let’s share a moment together and take with us these frequencies of peace and love.

Lofty sentiments aside, the dynamic, high-energy, musical potency of Living Colour certainly hasn’t diminished over the years. Billboard Magazine says of the group’s latest album, “Longtime fans of the band should be pleased with the new material,” as it “retains Glover’s signature, impassioned vocals, rounded out with a mix of hard rock, funk metal and blues-influenced arrangements.”

Living Colour will appear live at the Bottle & Cork, located at 1807 Highway One, Wednesday, Sept. 2 with doors opening at 8 p.m.

Tickets are $20 in advance; $22 the day of the show.

For more information visit tickets.deweybeachlife.com or call the Rusty Rudder at 302-227-3888.