Good! Just returned from a nice European tour. It was short but we hit some great festivals and key cities where we've been wanting to play so it was productive.

It's not much of a departure really from the other 2 albums. I think it sounds better because I've learned more as a studio engineer but as far as the songs go, it's what you would expect from Bloody Hammers which is fuzzed out melodic horror inspired rock.

I had just returned from playing House Horror Festival in Austin, TX. It's a festival put on by the author Corey Mitchell and rock star Phil Anselmo. Being around all these great filmmakers and musicians for a weekend  was just a really inspiring. When I got home, all the songs just sort of came out of me over about a week. I didn't have to force anything.. it was a very natural flow of music so I went right in and started recording them. I have a little studio in my house so that helps to get things done quickly.

Nothing much other than many songs before were wrote over time. They would come to me a little at a time. All of these came at once.

I like all of them. I would never release anything I didn't like. The fans seem to like it all as well.. it's hard to get them to agree on one song when I've asked.

It's just natural for me to write darker sounding songs no matter what the project name is. It's just what I like so it shows up. Growing up stuff like Sisters of Mercy, Bauhaus and Gary Numan were just as important as Black Sabbath, Dio and Alice Cooper. I'm influenced by all sorts of stuff.

I was kicking around lots of names. The first debut was going to be just an Anders Manga album but it was just too extremely different so I came up with some names. One day when I was riding around in my van listening to Roky Erickson singing, "I Never Had that Bloody Hammer". Bloody Hammers is a tribute to his song.

I like simple stuff... music where people are showing off skill for the sake of showing off skill isn't my taste. All the ones I mentioned earlier are the key ones but also there is Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Tom Waits, Misfits, Joy Division, The Beatles, Dio, Ramones, King Diamond, Sigur Rós, Metallica, The Doors, Slayer.. so many!

In my opinion it's more the imagery than the music. I've never purposely sat down the in the studio with the intention of trying to make an album sound like it was from the 70's. I just mic stuff up and record. Whatever it sounds like naturally is how it ends up on the record. I just dial in sounds I like and start recording. I know some bands sit and study old Sabbath records and screw with amps and mics until they get something close. That's not for me. I want my album to sound like a Bloody Hammers album.

 I think the imagery is just my taste and probably nostalgia to me. I used that type imagery even when I was doing Darkwave music starting 15 years ago. I just love old weird horror novel covers and movie posters. Anything horror, occult or sci-fi from the 50's – 80's.

Generally I like the artwork above all else. Many posters that I love are actually horrible movies but there are some I like as well.

We're looking to tour more for sure. The biz people are working to line up something for the fall now for us.

Thank you for listening if you have, if you haven't check it out if you like fuzzy, moody rock and roll.