Hello there! And no problem.

In Mad Minute is the result of some hard years of creation! It consist of songs that, in their own way, represent MUSHROOM CLOUD and what we are about. There is a bit of everything, from slow, fast, melodic to aggressive. Some of the songs were rewritten from our latest EP and have existed for a couple of years.

I would describe it as Melodic Thrash Death Metal, with a touch of old school influence, especially in the guitar leads.

The album title has a couple of meanings to it.  For me personally, In Mad Minute kind of describes the whole process of recording the album. We only had 2 weeks to get the whole album recorded in Antfarm Studio with Tue Madsen and I was tracking a lot of guitars! With all the preparation that went into getting ready for the recording, I have never been so busy! So that is the way I look at it. A long mad minute of recording!

The band name was something I suggested. I got it from a CRADLE OF FILTH song. We thought that the name would already be taken, so we went online to check if we could find any other bands. We were only looking for Metal bands, so we kinda missed the whole Japanese singer-songwriter thing. We hope we can live peacefully with our Japanese friends. Like for example, there are two bands named SHINING who live a lot closer together (Norway and Sweden), than we do to Japan. So it is possible, so hopefully we won't have any problems with that.

Well, the idea was always to make Melodic Metal music, so you could say it was planned. For me Metal is many things, not just aggressive music. I have always been a big fan of the Göteborg scene in Sweden and all the great bands that come from there.

I prepare all the guitar parts at home and then bring them to the band. We then put it together in the practice space. Morten, our singer does all the lyrics. We first add the drums and guitars together, then start working on the vocals.

I draw inspiration from all kinds of arts. Being it tattoos, paintings, theater. All of this inspires the music I write in some way or another.

Well there is a bunch of musicians that have inspired me. To name a few. Alexi Laiho, Zakk Wylde, Marty Friedman, Gary Moore, the list goes on!

I always liked the sound of guitar strings so I was hooked on guitar straight away. I started playing classical guitar and did a lot of fingerstyle guitar playing at the beginning. When I started to play guitar I was never interested in playing other people's music, I wanted to make music of my own. I never learned to play guitar through covers, so when I began to learn some covers I had already been playing for a few years.

I listen to a lot of different music, but the most unexpected must be a band named UNTER NULL. Check it out for yourself!

The first concert I went to was Yngwie Malmsteen at Train in Aarhus, where we come from.

Favorite live album must be Children of Bodom Tokyo Warhearts.

We hope to do a lot of shows for this album. Our next show will probably be here in Denmark somewhere. We also hope to be able to play outside of Denmark in the future and spread the name of MUSHROOM CLOUD.