“To be honest when the damn virus has hit us I had just a week to be worried about my plans, well, our plans together, indeed Roine immediately took the chance to propose us to make new music for an eventual new album. I was happy, but at the same time I was worried that it would be too soon for a new release; I mean, yes, we had a beautiful tour in Europe and some concerts in Japan supporting “Waiting For Miracles” album recorded last summer and released during the fall, but I felt we didn’t played that music enough (I still think that).
I was worried that music this time would happen almost in a forced atmosphere, because the lockdown, but then a week passed after the decision we made to create new music and BAM I got the first demo song from Roine which has smashed all my worries. I even didn’t listened that for its all length that I had to run to the drum kit and started to play along it, and let me tell you, IT HAS BEEN ONE OF THE MOST INTENSE MOMENTS OF MY LIFE, I’ve started crying while I was playing that song.
I understood that we would play our asses and heart off this new music, nor that we didn’t do that in the past, but this time has been something really different.
In some ways I’ve personally played with a different mind setting, I guess the most observants will notice that.
Being said that I’ve listened all the songs that everyone were proposing day by day and some of them were perfect to me, some were just ‘different’ from what I would expect and it’s incredible how those songs (that didn’t impressed me in the beginning) are now some of my favourites ever and I couldn’t stop singing them around
I know I’m not the only one to feel very emotional and excited, the all band at one point exposed their heart talking about the new songs.
It hasn’t been an emergency plan, this has been and still is a great way to do amazing art.”
“The songs, the playing, the vocals, the lyrics, the solos are the probably the most inspired ever in the band’s history.
This album will be special, it’s different, varied, complex, technical, emotional. It will leave you with a huge smile on your face, I know!"
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