Hello
If you have any questions to the blog, please post it here, and I`ll do my best to answer.
ole
Hi Ole! Thank you so much for your post! Its really exciting to get to peek over the shoulder of you guys and get a glimpse of the creative process. I licked up every letter of Östen & Anders' posts, and thoroughly enjoyed yours.
From reading the post I don't really have any particular question, but would still like to try and coax you into writing some more.
So here goes:
1) You mention your different musical background. Just how different is it? What are some of your favourite albums?
2) Is there any of the new tracks that you feel a special fondness of & that you could let slip some more details about?
3) How representative is The Emerald Piper of the new album? I vaguely recall you mentioning in an interview somewhere that there's more of a rock attitude overall.
4) Speaking of The Emerald Piper - was it chosen for the Wacken setlist om the grounds of being one of the most live-friendly tracks of the new album, or simply because it was closeat to completion?
Ok, veering a bit from the topic of your post here, so I'll leave it at that.
Really glad you're in the band! You're a bundle of energy on stage, and I much look forward to finding out just how that will manifest itself in the composing.
Best of luck!
Hello pellevin, and thanks for your interest!
1) When it comes to favorite albums or bands, it changes over the years. But it is a nice "biography" of where my musical journey has gone, and made me the musician and music-lover that I am today. I can mention a few albums that has meant a lot to me before, and has played an important role in shaping me. (random order)
Deep Purple - Made in Japan (live),
Led Zeppelin - IV
Jethro Tull - War Child
Peter Gabriel - So
Clawfinger - Use Your Brain
Seigmen - Total
Michael Jackson - Bad
Dream Theater - Images & Words
Extol - Undeceived
Green Carnation - Light of Day, Day of Darkness
Extreme - III Sides To Every Story
Marcus Miller - The Sun Donīt Lie
Mastodon - Crack The Skye
2) Hmm, I love all the songs now. They have all been subject of strict selection process, and if I or anyone else in the band didnīt approve a song, then we would have continued the working on it. But there are a few that stands a little closer to my heart. I can mention the song called Year of the Rat. That was the first song that was originally my idea. That makes it a very special song, because it sort of proved to me that this could work.
3) The Emerald Piper represent one of the musical directions, but not the main direction of the album. What we mean about more rock attitude is that we have several songs that are more "to the point", and faster.
4) The Emerald Piper is an amazing live song. We have played it five times I think, and every single time the crowd really responds. We had some new songs we wanted to play this summer, and The Emerald Piper just proved to instantly kick people around.
Thanks alot for your kind words and your support.
Have a great week!
Ole
