I am fine thanks for asking.

Yeah, it has been a while now.

Well, this is not a comeback album really. Actually, a lot of people have been asking the same question over and over. Yeah, we have been active all this time; it is just that we have really been recording in the studio due to personal issue within the members of the band. Instead of moving one or two steps forward, we found ourselves moving steps backwards. The last four years has been really tough but I feel that all the old problems were all behind us now and therefore we were able to record our new album and it was just fantastic.

Yeah, we have been performing. Basically, we did local shows here in Australia like Melbourne, Sydney and the east coast. The fact is that we really didn't get a rightful opportunity for something big outside of Australia was because we didn't have a label behind us, it has been like that for almost six years.

Yeah it is really good to get great feedbacks from people regarding our absence, it made us feel special that people really cared that we weren't there.

Yes it did. The album has been in the making something between five to six years.

Well, not really. I started writing songs for the album back in 2005 but the majority of the album was completed later on. There has been a period of time that wasn't too productive for the band. We kind of did in our own pace, we didn't have any sort of pressure from label and such.

Nuclear Blast Records.

It is, ha ha ha.

No not at all. I think we are in a better position than we were back then. We can do what we want, play what we want. Although, it was great to be in a label such as Nuclear Blast as it was providing us with gigs and spreading our music around the world. It did great things for us for sure in overall but as more of our albums came out, the attention we got went slowly downward. It is really hard to be on a label when you are with eighty to hundred bands that releases like seventy albums a year and therefore it is hard to keep a certain concentration on every single band.

Yeah and I was great. We also liked them. First time we came there in 1998 and we received so well whether it was the fans, media and the industry in general. As once an unknown band from Australia we didn't expect such a warm welcome. It was really cool.

I think it is the similar style. We never meant to change it in any way or to alienate our style, our sound or anything we stand for. We love playing old school Heavy Metal music and we think we do it quite well. That is the main reason why we didn't want to change anything or try anything else unlike other Metal bands out there.

No, we weren't actually. All of those acts, the newer ones as an addition, were influenced by older bands just as we were. However, unlike the new bands, we have been around from 1993, a lot of bands back then have been trying to pursue the same dream but faltered. As for us, people would mock us for playing such a style of music because of the fall of the genre as it had a hard time fitting itself. Bands like Nirvana and Pearl Jam rose back then and it seemed that there were two choices: extreme Metal or Alternative Metal and we were just stuck in the middle. However, we didn't care about that as we enjoyed playing what we played.  A few years later, our style of music was more or less trenched but we didn't care, we made sure that we would stay loyal to our own image.

We have always been determined; bands do exist for being like that. If not being determent so what we could have been.

Sure. We have grown and matured since the beginning. The song writing elevated for sure as it is not in the same level of an eight year old.

Yes I think it did. Of course that there are a couple of songs on the new album that might be considered clichés, but those were specifically written as a tribute for the era. Those were typically 80s Metal songs. However, we had other songs that were more matured than in the past. Our style didn't change dramatically as it remained traditional Heavy Metal yet with a rather more modern day production and that is what we tried to accomplish. Production is a big part of being accepted to the ears of the modern day listeners and that is something that has to be considered when releasing an album. You have to be crazy on not considering the times. Although I once liked the older kind of productions, when we did Headless Horsemen, Nuclear Blast encouraged us to go forward to the modernized productions. In the end, we did things different but in the same vein as in the past and people liked what they heard. It has been great.

I think that basically he was in a bad position at the time. He was very young at a time and has personal issue, he was in the same age as my brother that is also a member in the band. His comeback was a revelation to us. Justin is practically another brother and even when he left the band he was still around it in a way. When we had The Headless Horseman album, he used to come up on stage with the headless horseman outfit when the song was playing and it was kind of cool.

No, not really. I didn't want to focus on another band besides Pegazus as it keeps me quite busy. I know guys playing on other bands and projects but for me Pegazus is everything.

Yeah for sure. There is so much to do in a single band. On the outside it might show different but still there is a lot I can assure you.

The idea, originally rose in 2005, was to have a long tribute song followed by long guitar solos, something like three minutes. I wanted to try and bring in some of the guys that I appreciated as guitarists from the 80s and I attempted on trying to get the really big names from back then. I just found people that were basically accessible and would give a lot more for Metal in a sort of low profile kind of way and that would have to say more with their guitar playing. Watson is one of my favorite guitarists from the 80s.

Yeah he is. But the first time I actually saw him with Night Ranger he played hard and reminded me of more of Randy Rhodes and he was playing Metal and awesome. Ross The Boss, an awesome guitar player, I always loved his style. Manowar with Ross The Boss was so cool. Shankle took over for Ross The Boss, he was an unknown guy really and the fact that he still around in the scene gave me the chance to get in touch with him and he accepted my proposal. So we had three guitarists, a Hard Rock guitarist, Ross's style and the shredding outputs of Shankle. Incorporating all of them made the song to sound great. The fourth guitar solo was mine was a sort of a reserve although I didn't actually mean to play it. However, the guys in the studio told me to place one in. The song was written five years ago as a tribute for the 80s era where everyone were for Metal and we were playing it live since then with my own guitar solo. Therefore, we thought we needed another version.

Yeah, that is what we are all about. That is a Pegazus show, we love the audience and we hope for its involvement. We aren't just performing we are sharing the Pegazus show with the crowd in order for them to have a good night.

At the moment we are booking shows for a European tour later this year. We are coming to Europe in early October. It is going to be in the main countries of Europe along with special shows.

Yes, from time to time we do. Of course we are a Metal fans ourselves and we play stuff that is from our favorite bands. Usually we put no more than one cover on the setlist like Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath.

Well, we actually haven't ever played a Dio song. But we could. We once played "Time Machine" of Black Sabbath. I would love to do "Stand Up And Shout" as it is a kick ass song. Dio's style is almost the same is what we did on "In Metal We Trust".

Thanks again and we will talk again soon I hope.