To make a long story short: Over a couple of pints in a pub discussing why today's music mostly sucked. This was around 1995.

Heavy Metal. Or maybe Classic/Old school/British Metal. Nowadays there are some reviews of other bands where they describe the band as Wolfish etc so I guess we have a specific sound. I would describe that sound as raw, well sounding, melodic, energetic, simple and straight forward.

The reaction in Sweden has been good. In Europe and the USA the reaction has been great, to say the least. We're pleased.

Mikael [Goding, bass] or Daniel [Bergkvist, drums] usually come up with one or two riffs that we try out in the rehearsal room. It if grooves we build a song around it. I usually glue the good parts together and fill in the missing parts of the song. Most often I write the vocals and lyrics with some help from Daniel and/or Mikael. Each member comes up with riffs of their own but the magic happens when we play together in rehearsals.

I am a student of psychology and what happens in the depths of the human mind inspires me the most. Also I write a lot about death. I guess it comes from me being afraid that I will not be able to do all the things I want to before I die. Death is final and something that concerns us all weather we like it or not.

We don't consider ourselves a Power Metal band. We are a Heavy Metal band. We're simply not interested in templars, dragons and such as most Power Metal bands write about (I guess?).

Your band shows a high level of musicianship, did you take classes or are you self taught?

We are self taught, except from maybe some classes when we were kids. After Black Wings (2001), I took some singing lessons from an opera professor and that was great. I quit because I could not afford to continue. In my opinion, musical training cannot destroy your feeling as long as you have a genuine talent and a mind of your own. On the other hand it is not necessary with classes and training if you do have the talent and work hard on your own. I once applied for music school but got refused and I can't tell you that I am sorry for that now.

With Wolf there is a story every time we're on the road. I particularly remember when my passport was in the wrong tour bus on the Saxon tour and I had to hide in our bus at the Swiss border. They looked over the whole bus but didn't find me. I am surprised that they did not hear my heart beat and found me.

It must be better than the nineties because the nineties sucked. But I am not interested in the Metal scene of today. There are too many bands and I have too little time. But I am pleased that Judas Priest and Iron Maiden are back together again. Maybe Mercyful Fate could reunite?

I think all genres of Metal help the larger Metal world. Well, not Nu-Metal, because it is not Metal anyway.

Even if I consider myself old school, I can't figure out how we could manage before Internet. I am glad that I don't have to type this interview on a typing machine and send it over by snail mail.

We are writing songs for the next album by the moment. There will also be a Swedish and a German festival gig in May.

It was Daniel's idea. First of all it is a great song. Secondly, we did not want to cover something obvious like a Priest or a Maiden. Thirdly, the lyrics fit well into the album and offers the album another dimension, I think.

We like predators and are sponsors of the official predator association in Sweden, trying to preserve wolves, wolverines, bears and such in the natural Swedish fauna. But first and foremost we wanted a simple but powerful name.

Stay heavy, stay true! Thanks for supporting this hard working band.