Pepe: "I think it’s going well, I’m having fun."

Joller: "This is the fourth night, it’s just starting. We’re all a bit hung over from last night."

 

Joller: "In Belgium, at the Vosselaar."

 

Joller: "Really good, there weren’t that many people last night, but it seemed like everybody had fun."

 

Joller: "For 3,5 weeks."

 

Pepe: "Exactly, to keep people updated on our funny days."

 

We’re still waiting for the drunk photo’s…
 

Pepe: "Oh yeah, I think they’ll come today actually from last night."

 

Pepe: "Yeah we sell all the merchandise ourselves, so people can come talk to us any time. You should stay for the afterparty too."

 

Pepe: "I think we get positive response. They react really good. They’re kind of watching like (Pepe is doing a hesitating face) “is this cool?” and then “yeah it’s cool”. Of course some people don’t like it, but that’s how it should be, we can’t satisfy everyone. Some people like the changes and some don’t."

Joller: "Generally mostly positive. People are aware that it’s different now, but it’s still Hatesphere. People seem to like it."

 

Joller: "A whole lot of fun, but it’s hard. Big shoes to fill after Jacob."
 

Joller: "Haha well actually… I always listened to Hatesphere and always went to the Hatesphere shows that were in Copenhagen, my town. So, I’ve been a fan, yes."

 

Joller: "No, I never talked to them."

 

Joller: "Yeah I saw it, but I didn’t wrote them. A friend of mine knew Dennis and said I should try and make a call, so that was it and we played a set together."

 

Joller: "Yeah. I practiced on 5 songs. We played them and they seemed to think it was all right, so here we are."

 

Pepe: "We got quite a lot of interested people, lots of males."

 

Pepe: "No… You should’ve like…"
 

Pepe: "No, there weren’t any females actually, but there were lots of interested people. People weren’t that good though, but it was very cool to see that many were interested, there were males form the US, from Basil."

 

Pepe: "We asked for an e-mail and they did. Then we just choose the best, contacted them and asked if they would come. Some of them never wrote me back after that, maybe they were too scared. At the auditions we had people from Italy, Scotland, Germany and Denmark coming."

 

Pepe: "We had like 10 for the auditions."

 

Pepe: "No, like two weekends. Joller didn’t actually apply for the job in the beginning. So we didn’t know that he was there. We choose another singer and he suddenly said he couldn’t do it and then we contacted Joller, because through Dennis we had heard we should check him out and we did and luckily he was good."
 

Pepe: "And the cool thing was he is from Denmark as well. The guy we almost choose was from Italy, that’s a long way from Denmark."
 

Jakob: "Yeah, it was kind of funny too."

Pepe: "Joller was totally unknown to most of our fans. That was cool to get a totally unknown person who kicked ass."

 

Joller: "19"

 

Joller: "I’m in 2 other bands."

 

Joller: "Unfortunately I’ll have to quite one of them, because they’re also coming up and I don’t have the time to be there a hundred percent. I would be a burden to them so we have to take our separate rows. But it’s okay, I’m still in one other band, going strong."

 

All: "Oh yeah!!"

 

Pepe: "Actually we promised this guy not to publish it."

 

Pepe: "You wouldn’t even believe it. Actually the other guitar player Jacob, during the audition, he had to leave the room because he was laughing so hard. He couldn’t do it in front of this guy, he sucked so bad."

 

Pepe: "Why we choose him to come was because he was from Arhus where we live as well, or where I live, and where our rehearsal room is. It would be so easy. Anyway, it was quite fun, now we’ve got something to laugh about."

 

Pepe: "It could have been very funny. He actually mentioned in a mail to me he didn’t want us to publish it. Even before he came to the audition, because we had let him know we would videotape it. He was like “okay, as long as it doesn’t end up on YouTube” and we then we were like “no of course, it won’t”. But when we heard him we understood why he said it…Are you gonna write this in the interview? I think he knows who he is."

 

 

Pepe: "That was because of the American tour. Dennis should have played the drums in that one, like a stand in. Our other drummer couldn’t make it that time. That’s why the other band members went away as well, because they didn’t have the time for it anymore. So we had to have in Dennis for that tour and Micheal had the same problem as the drummer, he had kids and all that. So we had been in contact with Mixen as well."

 

"Yeah, In Aarhus where I live we played three weeks ago and all of them were there."

 

Pepe: "I don’t know."

Jakob: "I’m actually going to record there in the summer with my other band."

 

Jakob: "It’s called The Downward Candidate. We’re not signed yet, but we’re recording a whole album trying to get us signed."
 

 

Pepe: "Almost, yes."

 

Pepe: "Yeah, of course it’s going to be a bit different, but that’s the charm. It wouldn’t be fair to anybody to make the same album. We don’t like to experiment that much, but we still do some different stuff. I don’t know how this album is going to sound yet. The other band members had some influence, because I wrote the songs with the drummer for example and Heinz wrote a bit, but it was mainly me who wrote the guitar riffs. So, we don’t know what the direction is going to be, but it will still be Hatesphere."

 

"No, we’ve been rehearsing on the new songs and we’re doing that on tour as well."

Joller: "Haha yes, but the plan is I’m going to write lyrics for the album. It’s not something new to me, I write the lyrics for my other bands too."

Pepe: "It’s good that our bass player is like half American, well he’s not, but he’s got some American blood."

 

Pepe: "Yeah, I think he can be our judge."

Joller: "I think we’re going to sit down together and write some stuff."

Pepe: "As long it’s something about blood..."

Joller: "Beer."
 

Pepe: "That’s going to be so cool."

 

Pepe: "We did once, we made a football song. It’s on our website, you can download it there."

 

Pepe: "AGF. We wrote this tribute song, for a tribute CD. All the songs were in Danish. It’s called (something in Danish), translated it means ‘when is it Sunday again?’. It was fun and it became another song of us, it’s called 'We are the Enemy' which came out on the Killing EP, but I don’t quite see the point in putting a Danish song on the album."

"Yes!"

 

Pepe: "Yeah, I check out all the websites, but they’re on a break now and they’re like doing test games."

Joller: "They’re preparing for losing."

Pepe: "Joller is always betting on the safe winners. Kind of lame, but that’s how he is. I like to follow my heart."

Jakob: "I don’t give a shit about this."

Pepe: "He’s just ignorant, he comes from another part of the country. He can’t help it."

 

Jakob: "I like a lot of other things, but football…"

Pepe: "Like pizza..."

Jakob: "And my girlfriend and myself kind of sometimes as well. I like fishing actually. It’s a hobby of mine from way before I ever started playing music, I went fishing a lot."

Joller: "We should go fishing."
 

Jakob: "Yeah exactly, I don’t do it very often now, but I do like spending time with the ocean."

Pepe: "Haha ‘spending time with the ocean’. Wow!"

 

Joller: "Haha, yeah they would be about the ocean. The thing I like about football is you get drunk and yell for hours."

Pepe: "It’s kind of like a Hatesphere show."

 

Joller: "Most of us like to walk around, just see where we are and check out the sites. I went to a café today and had a cappuccino with Mixen and just relaxed in the town."

Pepe: ‘Spending time with the town’

Joller: "Experiencing other countries. Of course watching movies, we can’t walk around all day."

Pepe: "Jakob and I were very active today. We went into the city as well and found a fitness centre. Pumping iron."

 

Pepe: "Yeah!"

 

Pepe: "I wouldn’t call it high, but I call it not bad either. There are so many people playing football in Denmark, like in Holland. I play in a club now, but it’s very small, a just for fun club. We started it with a couple of friends. When I moved to Arhus I had a break for 2 years and then a friend of mine asked me if I wanted to come play."

 

Pepe: "The last three or four matches I played the attack, how do you call that? I attacked people, but I forgot the word."

Joller: "A striker."

Pepe: "I love you man."

 

"Musically or personally?"

 

"What we’ve been experiencing so far is that they’re cool guys and that’s the most important thing."

Jakob: "There is no room for assholes when you’re on a bus like this."

Pepe: "I like Dismember a lot actually, that old school Swedish death metal sound."

Joller: "Yesterday I was out there headbanging almost half of the show, really drunk too."

 

Pepe: "Swedish bands, we’ve been touring quite a lot with them and it’s been great fun. And Slayer of course."

 

All: "Yeah, Entombed, At the Gates."

 

Pepe: "It’s not like we’re going to tour like tour tour tour, but we’re gonna play as many festivals as possible. Some new fans can join the band now that we’ve got some new faces."
 

Pepe: "Even 15 year olds."

Jakob: "And 50."

Joller: "Right, no it’s just showing the new face of the band."

 

Joller: "It’s weird when you’re practicing, but when you go play live the important thing is to have a good show. Still it’s hard to learn all the songs walking around with my mp3 player."

 

Joller: "No, I haven’t had the time to sit down and talk, unfortunately."

 

Joller: "Nerve wrecking. I think I went to the toilet 8 times that day. We had one show, my first show and then the day after we played at the Danish Metal Awards. It was kind of stressful because I joined 12 days before. I had to learn a full headlining set, of course I was really nervous, I’m still nervous…"
 

 

Joller: "Right now I think it’s 'Disbeliever' and 'Only The Strongest'."

Jakob: "For a long time it has been 'Damned Below Judas' from the new album."

Pepe: "Tonight it’s the first time we’ll play that song live, a premiere. 'Damned Below Judas' and '500 Dead People' is always good."

 

All: Singing: “I’m gonna miss you.”

Pepe: "I mostly got metal CD’s actually."

Joller: "I got the Pussycat Dolls, I actually kinda like some of it."

All: "Haha!"

Pepe: "You’ve got a Danish band called Aqua."
 

Pepe: "Yeah amazing."

Mixen: "Amazing piece of shit."

 

Mixen: “I’m a barbie boy, in a barbie world.”