Hi there! Thanks for talking to us.

Yes, this year signifies the 10th aniversary or our demo recording entitled Catharsis which formed the basis for what we do today. In those days we were troubled by a lot of bad luck regarding getting signed. First we couldn't get a deal, then we got one but the company went under, all the usual stuff. We fought hard with this in many years until our first album The Spirit Tower finally came out in 2006.

That's a good question. Being six people in a band certainly poses its challenges but it works well for us. As you suggest, the biggest problem is building it up and agreeing on the basics and we did this along time ago.

The album has been received really well. We've gotten an enormous amount of good feedback and the reviews are very positive as well. Obviously there are exceptions, but those are the game rules.

Angel VI is a fictitious character that the album's lyrics revolve around. It's not a concept album as such, but still most of the songs feature this character in some way. The lyrical universe is too comprehensive to describe here but I can highly recommend diving into the lyrics to suck up the atmosphere of the album for oneself.

Yes, we did and it included most of the things you mention. We've tried hard to create a hard and atmospheric album that draws the listener into a disturbing universe. We're pleased with the result and with the fact that a lot of people also seem very positive.

No, I don't think we'll be re-recording old songs for the time being. We have done that before - in fact we did a few oldies for The Spirit Tower. It's a lot more liberating to start from a clean slate, so I'll think we'll stick with doing completely new stuff, at least for a long while. The main reason is that it tends to show when you redo an old song in comparison to new tracks. Especially with our kind of music, it's important that everything fits together well. In that way, we think the new album is more coherent.

I don't find it so hard, really. We've been doing this for many years and I think our most important influences were founded in the beginning. Our style has always felt natural to us and we feel very confident about it. Because our genre is relatively small, I think people sometimes tend to forget how similar bands in other genres sound. In regards to the songwriting, we try to get everyones opinion, but usually 2 or 3 of us make the final decision.

An old band member came up with the name 15 years ago. The band style has changed a lot since but we always thought the name was catchy so it stuck with us.

I would agree that in Death Metal very few bands have found a good use for keyboards, but in our genre it's an absolute must. We work a lot with creating different moods and emotional settings that are not possible without it.

While I don't think we'll do a classic Black Metal kind of song, we do have themes on the album that are heavily inspired by it. We are aware of our roots and we try not to stray too far off most of the time.

Thank you. We try not to get too drunk before a live set - that usually helps!

Not necessarily. I think it's only about half of my favourite bands that I've had a chance to see live. We love playing live but we don't have the size yet to do cross continental tours.

We've played with the two big Danish acts ILLDISPOSED and HATESPHERE. We are currently working on setting up dates with ILLNATH and COMPOS MENTIS and the first date in Copenhagen has been set.

In fact it's going very well for the popular Metal genre at the moment, with many bands getting international contracts. Since Denmark is so small we don't really have our own sub-genre here, like Sweden and Norway have Thrash and Black respectively. We're very proud however that we currently share label with KING DIAMOND that you mention.

We're looking forward to support out new album live in the coming months. Hopefully we can even reach Greece next year.