Mircea (guitarist) answered our questions.

How you finding the UK man?

Pretty good. I mean the tour has been going so well so far, a lot of people have been coming to the shows and it’s such an honour to be opening up for Fear Factory. We have the same management as them now and we have been looking forward to this for a long time. Everybody is really happy with the tour, and we haven’t toured since doing all the festivals in the summer. So it’s really good to be coming back again, and especially to the UK as it’s a cool market and we want to let ourselves be heard.

So the tour’s going well?

Yes definitely. We have never sold as much merchandise as we have on this tour; the UK seems to embrace us more and more. We where here last year with Soilwork and that was like our UK debut, and this is our second chance. It’s been cool, for instance last night Burton had some problems with his vocals and he asked Michael (vox) to help him out with almost the whole set, and he was like ‘oh fuck, this is amazing!’ We are huge Fear Factory fans, we grew up listening to them - indeed they are one of the reasons we exist.

Where are you guys from and how did you form?

We are from Denmark and we started out being as a three-piece. I came from a death metal band, and the current guitarist and drummer used to be in another band, that was kind of Carcass grindcore style. We started hanging out and trying music that we wanted to sound different ‘cos we got fed up with death metal. It’s so static, we wanted something dynamic and new, and so we hooked up made a couple of demos with a singer and bass player. Problem was we borrowed them from another band so we had to find a new singer who was Michael and a new bass player (Thomas) and we did a second demo and then with that demo we got a record deal with Nuclear Blast. After that we wrote a lot of songs and made the first record MECHANICAL SPIN PHENOMENA. We then we toured and stuff then made our new record THE AUDIO INJECTED SOUL and that’s about it so far…

You’re out in support of the new record THE AUDIO INJECTED SOUL and that’s out now, but obviously you’ve had a lot off time to write the new record, so in general how did you go about it and what are you trying to convey with your new music?

We had a more straight forward approach to the new record and there is a lot more of a rock and roll’ish vibe to it, if you know what I mean. I guess we kind of on the first album had a lot of technical stuff that went into it, but at this point we feel we don’t have to prove we can play our instruments. So we went for a more melodic more accessible approach, not something so schizophrenic, it goes into a whole different dimension in sound; the samples and keys are sill there but the songs are not so complex, we took a lot of that out. We just tried o make a better CD.

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And influences on it?

We don’t get a lot from music, but movies and atmosphere, things you see like paintings and illustrations. When we write songs it’s about letting your feelings out, on that part we are more influenced by everyday life than other people’s music.

Any thoughts on the late great Dimebag?

I’m really really sad to see that something like that can happen, but the fact is he’s dead. I mean when we where told on the tour he’d been shot everyone was like ‘yeah, whatever…’ - we thought it a joke, but in reality life can change in five seconds so you’ve got to be careful.

Last year you guys where nominated for the Danish Metal Awards in three/four categories. How did that feel?

It was cool, it’s really good to know that people buy and listen to our music, it’s cool we can satisfy people to the point where we gain such recognition.

How do you guys relax and chill on the road?

When we are not touring we are constantly looking for another tour. I mean we are a band that are in it 24/7. You have to be constantly in the media, especially being such a young band like we are (we only have 2 albums) we have a long way to go before we achieve such status as bands like Fear Factory or Machine Head or bands like that. And it’s all about sales and that primarily comes from touring. But when we are not, Michael actually has day job, I’m studying multimedia design degree, and the other don’t do shit except sit at home, the drummer has a child so we have busy lives…

If you could play with anyone alive or dead who would it be?

I think Dimebag would be awesome especially now, we played with Damageplan early in 2004 and I can’t understand that this has happened.

But yeah, the Machine Head tour last year was awesome and we played some huge shows - that was definitely our biggest tour…

Fave drink?

White Russian. It’s a vodka thing.

Finally, where do you want to go?

We want to just make a living off what we do. We want to go to the States, which is our primary market, and we are finally going to get to do that this year which should be cool (Canada too). I think we would love to get on Ozzfest and maybe play Japan.