I'm great, just relaxing just got back from the Graspop festival and all.

Great actually, im very excited. I've only read like one or two reviews to far and they all say lovely things about it so im hoping for lovely things. I think the fans are gonna love it, I think its gonna be a great thing to play live, its gonna be something new for us to do finally because we played our last one to death, so its great to start the whole cycle again.

Well I actually just heard that on the radio one day and was like "I have to turn this into an Alestorm song." We have covers some weird songs in this past but this is probably our most bodacious cover. This one will show us the real "metal nerds" because it has a rap section and an awesome accordion solo so, some people will like it and some won't!

Yeah, we've been playing "Surf Squid Warfare" a bit. We're gonna be playing that a bit but right now all we are playing are festivals and I think when people see us at festivals they want to see the stuff they know, they want to know the songs so we try to stick with the older stuff right now.

Yeah this weekend or something we are announcing a UK tour, but right now that's not announced so shh.

Yeah actually we are gonna make it pirate themed, we have gotten a few pirate based bands like Red Rum. We wanted to get Swashbuckle on the tour too but they're out doing their own thing.

Yeah actually, they're pretty great I gotta say myself!

Actually, we are working to get them on our European tour with us. So I guess we will see soon what happens there.

Yeah it blew up quite quickly actually, one day we were this small band and the next we are signed to a big metal label and sent out touring, some of our old members learnt that apparently traveling and making a living playing music isn't for them apparently but I think we have found a stable line up now with Elliot and Garret and the rest of the crew.

Of course, and its already planned to happen. That's still sort of hush hush though, don't tell anyone until we announce it [laughs]

With all the traveling we do I've learnt to sorta speak a universal broken English accent that everyone can understand. So until I start drinking and get incredibly Scottish everyone can understand me!

Not exactly an album release show, Heavy MTL does line up with the release date in North America though so it will be sort of a special show, probably won't play to much off the new album though!

No I don't think so, we might play a new song, maybe "Hangover" but that's about it because people come to see us play songs they know, you like to know the songs being played, so we will play our old songs like "Nancy the Tavern Wentch" and "Keelhauled" but we will also play "Drink" and maybe something else.

Powerful piraty goodness, with some great drinking songs of course!

Well we all came from other bands so we all had an idea of music, and we all love to tour and drink and play our music so id say we have come more professional about our work and we are able to play it drunk perfectly at this point [laughs]

Drunken madness and fun, we like to just hang out with fans and drink until we go to bed. Best part about playing live is just hanging out at the bar with the crowd after the show and drinking with everyone its awesome!

You know I've always wanted to do that but no one has come to us yet, maybe they don't like the idea that we give off of irresponsible drinking? [laughing] oh well, it will come sooner or later, we are a pirate band! Whether its Ale or Rum or whatever we will take it if it means we get our own alcohol!

Thank you mate I hope you have a good day, and I hope you enjoy the album. We have a video for "Hangover" coming out before the album drops so watch for that to come, probably about a week or so before the albums due! Thanks again, talk to you later!