We’re going. It’s going pretty well. We’ve got our ups and downs, but mostly ups. We had to play in Switzerland on a Monday and that sucks. Nobody wants to go to a concert on Monday. Sunday is much better. And while this music is also about drinking beer and having a party, Monday isn’t the right day for a gig.

 

Hehe you really want us to answer that? Well, I’ll start with saying that the guys from Final Breath are cool. Then Ancient, this band has Italian guys, and the drummer is also a bit from the United States. But this guy, he really is an idiot! In a funny way it’s ok to talk to him but he’s this ‘rockstar-type’ of person. And then there’s the bassplayer, he’s also from Italy. But actually we don’t wanna talk about every single of these guys because after every sentence they say that they’re from Italy. But the singer, he’s the only Norwegian guy in the band. And these guys are just really annoying, every night they start their set with saying: “Elloooo, we are Ancient, from the land of deeeaaathh!” Hehehehe. And they always talk about they’re coming from Norway because they play Black Metal, how cool is that?! They all have that long black hair and those lift up noses. But to make a long story short, we’re on tour with them; I think that’s the right answer.

But the funny thing is, nobody comes to see Ancient on tour. When they get on stage, everybody is heading over to the bar. And there’s maybe ten people left in front of the stage. And they get 50 minutes playing time and they play about 70 minutes. And when somebody drops a coin they say: “hey, we’re finished now, thank you!”. And if another person drops a coin they think they have to go in there and play 50 minutes again, hehehe

 

Well, I don’t have a lot of memories of the last two weeks, I think yesterday was pretty good. Yesterday we played in Hengelo, Innocent. I believe that’s FC Twente right? We always think about the football clubs when we’re visiting a town. But yeah, we played a good show there and the crowd laughed so it was pretty good.

 

The word ‘Vindication’ means that we’re back in business. We’re uprising and ready to play again. And then the ‘1-800’ part is just to make fun of those American hotlines. You know like: “Call 1-800 and get a blowjob!”. Or: “1-800, I’d like to sleep with men too.”

 

Well we were drunk. We played a concert the night before and it got really late and we had to do the video next day at nine o’clock. And then we took another box of beer, really strong beer and we did the video shoot. But the good thing with videos is that you’re not really playing. You’re just standing there, looking like shit. And the guy who makes the video puts in a lot of special effects and everybody thinks you’re a rockstar. At that point we’re just washed up Danish idiots! It really doesn’t matter how you look because the director just adds some fire and tits, and especially the last one always works out, hehehe.

 

One of the guys from my old class said it was ok. But seriously, a lot of people are saying it looks very cool, but then again some cry-baby says: “ooohh, that’s a used plot! You can’t use a mental hospital for a video.” Because it’s set in a mental hospital you know. And it’s done a million times before, maybe a million and one times before, but we didn’t even think about that. The director just did it. But you know what, I’ve got the video for you guys, we’ll watch it after the interview on my laptop.

 

That’s actually from the movie Wayne’s World 2. We just picked it because it’s funny and the song is called ‘Jeff’. Jeff is a cool name like Brian or Hank. We should have called the song ‘Hank’ hehehe.

 

We love doing festivals, because it’s quickly allowed. It’s not like the smaller venues where you have to do a long soundcheck in the afternoon and sit in the bus again and smell like shit.

 

Nooo man! We’re just drinking beer actually.

I think the last CD was like the rock bottom. It was a big change. We were a good band and then a bad one. And now were changed into a good band again. We got the perfect line-up now and we’re playing really good together.

 

I don’t think we’ve changed a lot. We just added some things to it. It’s a better production than the previous albums but the sound hasn’t really changed. And when you listen to one of our albums you can always here that we put a lot of work into it. But that’s also because of the studio, because with our previous album we had to record it in a studio that we didn’t like and we moved our equipment in the studio the night before. We were just like: “Does this sound ok? Yeah, Yeah, fuck it! Just put in on the album.” That’s the main difference with this album.

 

Yeah, underground reviews.

 

Basically I don’t give a shit because when we get out of the studio I know if it’s a good album or not. And I’ve read about 70 reviews about the album and only one of that said we sounded like anyone else. It was like: “these guys are from Sweden and bla bla bla and they sound like In Flames”. And I was like: “what are you talking about?!” We don’t sound like anyone else. And of course I know that every band says: “we’re different, bla bla bla, we have our own sound bla bla bla. But when you put it altogether, they do sound like anyone else. But In Flames is just In Flames.