Actually I wasn't inspired by heavy metal. I've always listened to music when I was young, just regular MTV stuff haha. I started playing drums when the instrument was introduced at school, as soon as I heard the instrument I knew I had to become a drummer. Over the time the musical taste has changed into heavy metal and I've had my first bands, typical first cover bands. Over the time I've switched bands, got more experienced an now I´m with Nothgard.

I wasn't in the band at that time, but the name had to be changed to Nothgard as Nordavind was already used by several bands and so they thought of a new one. The early years were full of line-up changes, writing demo songs and playing the first shows.

Mainly it was the same procedure at that time. Our lead guitarist and singer Dom R. Crey is responsible for the compositions. Even more at that time. When the demo was recorded there were just Dom and bassist Vik in the Band. Nowadays Dom composes anything and then everybody is able to put in his ideas.

Even though I wasn´t in the band at that time I have to admit that I´m very proud of what the band has created with that album and what we have achieved with it. Warhorns of Midgard is a great album that is cool listening to, and it is really great fun playing the songs live J. But I think with Age of Pandora we have created something that is on a much higher level, and not just sound-wise. All the songs are more mature and more technical. We took our time writing songs with which we are 100% confident with.

Thank you. We all have developed regarding our instrumental skills, and I guess that´s one thing you can hear on the new record. We also took our time writing songs with which we were 100% satisfied, and those songs are more techniqual, faster and more mature. We have heared a lot about Trollzorn before and so we applied for a record deal. It all worked out very well and we are very happy that we made that decision as these guys are very nice and good persons working with.

Yeah that´s right. First of all we decided to choose a third guitarist as we wanted to be able to perform the songs live as powerful as in the studio and didn´t want to leave out guitar parts. Actually everything you hear on the cd you will be hearing live, as we sample e.g. the orchestral parts.

Wow, in gereally this is hard to answer as we had quite some shows . We´ve had some very great shows with awesome people and an awesome organisation, like the Metal Frenzy or the shows we played in England or the Netherlands. But I think I´d go with both shows we had in Austria in Attnang. Even tough the organisators weren´t professionals but just a metal-club consisting of young metal fans, everything worked out perfectly. The same goes for the shows and the organisation and the people. But I have to admit, there aren´t many shows that sucked haha.

As an audience member... wow... can´t name one as I don´t visit metal shows/festivals that much. But I had a blast with Nachtmystium and Blasphemer at the Ragnarök festival.

Personaly I love having a digipack in my hand. I don´t like jewel-cases that much, as I think they look quite boring. But in this time you always have to offer a digital music download I guess as you have to go with the time. But I have to admit, that I´m quite suprised that there are still loads of people that actually buy a physical copy, which makes me very happy.

Well if I´m honest from time to time it can be difficult handling the band, the work and the social life. As for me it´s not as near as hard as for Dom as he plays in three really active bands (Nothgard, Equilibrium and Wolfchant). You definately need a good schedule as it helps to manage all the stuff you have to do. But all our families and friends are very supportive and know what we are doing and most of them understand that this is what we want to do and that we sacrifice all of our time doing what we love. Most of us are students that go to university and study

Tough question, but I really don´t want to go into that that much. I think there´s quite some stuff going wrong in this world... Isis, Russia and the Ukraine, Gaza, child abuse... Just to name some current events... I think the people have to change in general. Respect e.g. is a word most people don´t know anymore.

Unfortunately not, until now we focus 100% onto our upcoming album and the promotion. But until now we are very happy how the band has developed, especially musical and sound-wise.

For me without any doubt: Marduk and Mayhem (as I am quite much into black metal ) are and will always be the best black-metal bands out there. Hard to decide on a third one... Guess it would be a decision between Slayer, as Decade of Aggression was my first metal cd I´ve ever heard, Metallica, as St. Anger was my first metal cd I've owned (Decade of Aggression was given to me by a friend), Nachtmystium or Fäulnis... But I´ll leave the third one open.

As for the albums I will go with any Marduk and Mayhem release (not really surprising I guess ). Especially Steel Inferno of Marduk´s Plague Angel is one masterpiece I would love bombing into some faces... In the car I´m currently listening a lot to the latest Nachtmystium and Fäulnis album

We can´t wait playing the upcoming tour with Equilibirum, as it will be an awesome event in great clubs round Europe and we can´t wait to see and meet some fans that enjoy our music! So be prepared to party with us and get your beers ready

Also thanks to Matt Coe for the interview and to YOU for reading this interview!