I'm excited but not as excited as a kid on Christmas, I've had my excitable moments.

It sounds like a SLOUGH FEG album so it's not that different, it's not a straight forward heavy metal record. I get bored easily making the same music over and over again so this was made to entertain myself.

After 8 records it gets slower to create I guess, how often do IRON MAIDEN or JUDAS PRIEST put records out? They've done quite a lot. With the first few records you have a lot of stuff you've just been playing around with and a lot of inspiration, when you put your first album out you have around 2/3 albums worth of music but after a while your label just says to you ''oh you need to write a new album'' and it just gets tiring.

The lyrical content is about technology, people changing and resisting to chang e but how people aren't using their mind as much due to having technology around all the time. There were so many science fiction books about this in the 1950's but everyone seems to have forgotten about it even though people are becoming like those books, not being able to think their own thoughts.

Well it's always hard to write but gets easier with every album, with ''Digital Resistance'' it was as hard as it could be.

Underground music normally seems to get a good response, people are very loyal to the new wave British heavy metal sound so we put out a single on vinyl and people really seemed to like it.

If I had to pick it would be ''Analogue Avengers'' as it has everything I enjoy featured on it.

We do but only have time to do a few short tours due to budget and time restrictions but we're doing some shows in Europe, festivals and a few shows in America.

Yes absolutely, no problems at all! It hasn't been any different to any other labels we've been signed to in the past but people have said that once you end up on these big labels that they have a reputation for exploiting the bands but so far no problems have occurred. Metal Blade gave us a similar deal like our old contracts with budget and promotional stuff but it's much more exhausting.

The original SLOUGH FEG line up only lasted 6-8 months before we brought brand new people in and only two of us were left when we went to California where we had a steady line up for around 5 years then the other original member left so for most of the journey. The band has pretty much always been my idea, people have contributed ideas which has helped a lot but the past 10 years there hasn't been much change line up wise but due to doing SLOUGH FEG since forever it's just become my idea.

Me and my stubborn attitude I guess but for most of the years it was anger and no one wanting to hear heavy metal.

It's inspired by Irish mythology but there was a comic called 2000 A.D and a character in it is called Slough Feg, they just did a 30 year hard back where they mentioned the band.

I use a Gisbon Les Paul, 1960's re-issue and a old 1977 Marshall amp. I plug right in and turn it up as loud as I can go!

As a kid my parent's made me learn to play piano which I hated when I was around 7 but after grade school I began playing American football so I couldn't do the piano lessons any longer but as years went on I quit football so they said I had to take up an instrument again. We had an acoustic guitar lying around the house so I started playing around with books and had lessons for 2 years. It took quite a while to pick up an electric guitar as I had to buy it myself.

It sounds like good old British heavy metal but really you have to listen to it and judge.

It's pretty obvious who it is but JUDAS PRIEST and IRON MAIDEN.

Cheers Emily