Ida: The pleasure is all ours and we're doing just fine. Everything is going great so far with the new album so we have nothing to complain about in that department.

Niklas: Sure, we are both from a small town in southern Sweden, and happily married since a year back. This is actually our first musical endeavor together, although we have always shared a passion for creating and playing music.

Ida: We have both learned to speak and read Yiddish at the University in Lund, but it is a language I've been in contact with in my childhood as well. For example, my grandfather used to sing for me in Yiddish when I was really little.

Niklas: Well, it's just a cool name really. It's the plural form of dibek, which is a demon like creature from the Yiddish folk lore. It possesses the soul of people and is quite evil, so we thought is was a band name that kind of fits with the metal genre.

Ida: We had discussed doing something together for a long time, but we just didn't know what, and we really wanted to create something new and unique. When I started studying Yiddish at the university it suddenly hit me, why not do metal in Yiddish? Niklas was of course totally onboard with the idea, so we called Magnus and started working on the first song, "Oyfn veg shteyt a boym".

Ida: Writing metal songs in Yiddish? I don't know, maybe, maybe not. The interest for the Yiddish language is quite big now, so it feels like quite god timing.

Niklas: There is actually at least one band who has done covers of Yiddish folk songs with hard rock style before us, but we are the first to present original metal material in Yiddish, so in that sense it is the first Yiddish Metal album. Of course we hope the metal world will appreciate the fact that we are doing something unique and that many people will enjoy our metalized klezmer, but there will certainly be those with negative opinions, there's really nothing you can do about that and over all we have gotten great response so far. The majority really seems to like what we are doing, which of course feels great.

Ida: It's not a concept album or a record with a special message, rather a compilation of different songs with very varying topics. However, the album title, which means "As a bird and a golem dances" stands for our musical combination, metal and Yiddish folk music. It represents our goal, to present a modern side of the Yiddish language and still preserving and honoring the culture.  In our own songs we use elements from the Yiddish folk lore, like the golem and the shretl, but we are also lifting modern and every day issues, so the album is an expression of new ways to use the Yiddish language as well as new ways to express the tradition and culture.

Niklas: Yes, definitely. I think we have created an album which works as a whole. With that said there's of course a little difference in the tone when you compare covers and original material, but I still think that we've integrated everything to one piece.

Ida: Since we are all friends I'd say that the relationship as a band is very good. Niklas and Magnus have worked together before in a couple of projects, and Magnus and Jacob is as you say both members of YGGDRASIL and has worked together in PANDEMONIUM as well. So, we all know where we stand as musicians.

Niklas: We have actually already started to write material for a new album, but right now we have our focus on the release of "Az a foygl un a goylem tantsn" and all the promotional work surrounding that. Hopefully we'll be able to take Dibbukim on tour in the future, but our main goal for now is really to get noticed and to spread our music to as many people as possible.

Thanks for all your support and kind words, we really appreciate it!