Hey, you´re more than welcome! You may know that I´m a big fan of Greece anyway, so I always like to doing interviews with metalheads from this blessed country.

Very, very good! I´ve just returned from another trip to Greece with my bloodbrothers in BATTLEROAR. Then I had some great days chilling at home. Right now I´m listening to "Master´s Hammer". Nice day indeed.

I came up with that name in 1986 when I was fooling around with several ideas for several future projects that I had in mind back then. Back then it was quite unuasual to have a bandname containing "of". Of course there were bands like FILEDS OF THE NEPHILIM or A FLOCK OF SEAGULLS or whatever but in the metal genre this was pretty uncommon. I liked the sounding of the name from the start and I always loved the word "winter" anyway. As a child winter always was the most magical time of the year to me.

I would never label myself as a real singer. I´m just a metal fan who´s also singing somehow. In 1990 nobody else wanted to sing in my doom band where I was playing guitar so I had to try it myself. I "learned" to control my voice better by singing along to albums like "The Spectre Within", "Meliass", "Awaken The Guardian", "Hallow´s Victim", "Nightfall" or "Into Glory Ride". My best friend then mentioned that my voice is kinda similar to Mr. Scott Reagers so I focused on singing along to old VITUS even more. As a band our main influences are still the same as when we started: old BLACK BABBATH, CANDLEMASS, TROUBLE, PENTAGRAM, old MANOWAR, CIRITH UNGOL, MANILLA ROAD, old JUDAS PRIEST, WITCHFINDER GENERAL andSAINT VITUS.

Well, it was recorded with nearly no budget and surely in a rush but it reflects the band as it is now 100%. We love every note on this recording. It´s pure, perfect unadultered underground doom metal. Not too many bands nowadays still play this kind of music the way we do which makes us pretty original in a way, haha.The EP features 4 tracks, from pretty fast to painfully slow. It´s only available on vinyl, limited to 500 copies.

Sure! All 4 songs are brandnew. No recycling here. I think that these 4 tracks are among the finest songs we´ve ever written. I´m pretty proud of them and I love to play them live. All of them.

Sure I am! I read EVERYTHING I could get hold of in the mid 80´s already. I also read some biographies or other articles about Lovecraft and I watched ALL the movies that I could get hold of as well. Lovecraft is simply fantastic in the meaning of the word. Otherworldly!

Nope. We have not even rehearsed more than once since the release. We´re a lazy bunch of old fuckers really. We have talked about writing new songs but maybe first for a 7" release or something. There was no talk yet about a third album. There maybe will be one in 2020 or later. can´t say yet. We don´t make plans. We´ll see what happens.

Mhh, I don´t know really. I´ve lost touch a bit in the last years. We have a great scene for all things metal over here so I guess that the doom scene is alo pretty vivid and strong but I don´t know any new german bands, or at least no name jumps into my brain right now. Festivals like Hammer Of Doom or Doom Shall Rise are pretty successful so there sure must be some people interested in the best music this side of heaven.

That´s an easy one, haha. I always was a slow and lousy guitarist and I´m slow when it comes to learn things so doom obviously was the first metal genre that allowed me to become a sort of musician. Plus I always loved the mood of doom and the lyrics that helped me through many bad times.

Nope. Not really. If you love doom, playing doom will just come naturally to you as well. I sure can give no real advice to anyone out there, I´m not a teacher. I am a fan in the first place.

Most of the times, Jörg our guitarist comes along with 3-4 riffs and then we, as a band, try to get the parts in order and arrange them so that it becomes a song that we all like. Sometimes Dennis, our drummer or I have a song idea, then we try to work on that as well. I write all the lyrics.

Yes, sure! You can´t write a doom song and cry about the state of the world when you´re in love and butterflies are soaring through your stomach and head! You sure need to be in a perfect state of mind. Bitter but motivated, desperate but with enough power to be creative.

I always focus on whatever is main priority at the moment. We never tour with DAWN OF WINTER and we rarely tour with SACRED STEEL these days. So there´s no need to cut anything in favour of another project.

I´ll hold back my last words ´til the day I die. Then I´ll mumble something like "Shit, it´s pretty dark" or "Fuck, I shat my pants", or "Oh no, the monotheistic idiots were right, poor me". For now I´ll just say: THANK YOU for supporting us and thanks for the nice interview. Was fun.