I'm good, I'm Good.

Thank you very much.

Yes, it took us 5 years to make this album, and it was really frustrating at times. Now we're completely happy with the results. We threw away all of the material that we usually had done, in 2013, and completely started over, and that is why it took us so long.

Well, I guess the main difference in our approach to writing on this album is that we actually wanted to write songs instead of a strict album concept. I still invite everyone to listen from beginning to end, but we wanted to make song that you could still enjoy by themselves, out of context.

Instead of retelling old stories we were inspired by certain Scandinavian and Finnish mythology and rework them into new stories. And the general concept around "AGE OF GODS" which is the title translated, is the ancient times when people started to form their own belief systems, because they want to explain what is going on around them in nature, so they created "gods" as an explanation these different aspects of nature.

Well, that happened almost 20 years ago, so I can't fully remember. We didn't want to label ourselves with anything that already existed, we wanted to be different I guess. Now we just call ourselves pagan metal. It's a very nice general term that doesn't really say anything about the music except that it is Metal.

As our drummer once said, every good metal band has to have a bad name. I don't really know why we ended up with the name Moonsorrow, but I know it was taken from song sorrow of the moon.

That is a tough question, beer in the long drinks, whiskey in the short. I do not like to drink liquor much, because it gets me too drunk. My favorite has to be an IPA.

Freedom, I put it that simple. I consider myself more of a pagan than a Satanist, but there is a lot of satanic philosophy in my thoughts and view of the world.

Well that's the stuff that opposes freedom, basically. I have no sympathy for these monotheistic religions to control the flock. It's the easiest way to keep the masses in check. You can use it as your politics.

I just did a count, can't remember, 30 something, I have been in over 40 so far.

It's hard to say. Theyre so different. We just came from china, and playing there is just amazing. It's so new to a lot of those people. They've changed a lot. They do like to redo the lyrics lot, I don't why. But they are really opening up to it.

Visas can be a real pain the ass. Getting them isn't the problem, but it takes a long time.

Well there are several. China would be one of them, we played in Herbing 4 or 5 years ago, and we were the second non-Chinese band to play there, so they were really excited. Russia and Mexico as well, they went beyond crazy. I would love to go to South America.

We have been trying to work it out for several years, it's really hard to find reliable contacts. It's a bit like the Wild West when it comes to contracts. We don't want to get ripped off. It's so expensive to tour.

Also in planning. So far we only know of our European tour and some festivals. We do plan on it, but it is uncertain. It's a complicated issue, we gotta take off work, get everyone there, find the funds. We can't wait though, it's been too long.

Musically, the only thing we 5 members have in common is black metal from the 90's. So that must have been a great influence. Emperor, enslaved. Of course Bathory was a great influence, more so the Viking metal than the black metal.

Well it was something we all had in mind. In the beginning it was just me and my cousin, we listened to a lot of actual folk music.