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I 100 percent approve our new album, The Dream Calls for Blood. It's very important to understand that we are making albums that make you feel empowered. The feeling and message we are trying to convey is that there are many obstacles that divert you from your dreams and goals that you want achieve and you should overcome the obstacles and issues to be stronger and more confident. All the lyrics and the music supports that.

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We have a very good personal relationship and we became very good friends from the time of our last album around three years ago and we kept in touch all this time. The moment we started to make the album he was easily our first choice to produce this album and make this album even better than the last one. He is also a great guitar player and he pushed me to higher levels of playing. I really wanted to impress him because he is very honest and pushes all the guys to be better as a band and as individuals. He is also very funny and knows how to have a good time. In addition he is also a big fan of the heaviest Metal so he drove us to be the heaviest we can. Jason knows what we sound like because we are an old school Thrash Metal band and he is younger than us and cutting edge in sound, technology and it's very good to have both of these styles combine and find the in-between to get a better sound where the old and the new is fused.

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It's very hard to choose from all the songs we are going to play live from the new album. They are all new and awesome. However If I need to be specific I will go with the title track "The Dream Calls for Blood" and as far as songs that I like to listen where guitar work is involved, "Territorial Instinct – Bloodlust" would also be one of my favorites.

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We basically started in the 80's and technically broke up at the end of the 90's and reformed around 12 years later. The reason for the split was just a wired and faithful situation cause we didn't mean to breakup. The main reason was because of our misfortune with a bus accident that we had while on tour. It was the November '90 tour for our album Act III . In the bus accident our drummer nearly got killed and  it was a total shock and he had to get some extensive surgery and couldn't play drums for like a year so. We just waited for him and supported him the whole time he was in recovery. However many people told us that we should continue touring and we didn't think it was fair, because we wanted to stand by our drummer. And because we stopped touring, everybody shut the door on us including the label, PR and we also got many law suits. After that point the vibe just wasn't there anymore and you should understand that by this time I was only 23 years old and I was touring for like seven years and it was too much for me and for the other band members so we just said "fuck it" and broke up.

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For me it's not a puzzle what happened to Thrash Metal. Basically what happened is very simple: time went by and Thrash Metal came out of the 80's and ran its course in music, time, style and fashion – all of which change and evolve over time like it should. Metal just evolved beyond Thrash Metal and newer genres came out to play. The younger crowd is into more current styles and doesn't want to hear things that came out 10 or even 20 years ago and I think that most of the people that still listen to it are getting old and younger people who find it appealing are rare. However there is a resurgence of it for me and it can be explained very easily: other metal styles ran their course and people are getting back into the older styles. People should understand that Thrash Metal is combing many different styles together so it's more appealing to many people at once. It's very street-level music and all about being one with the crowd. Thrash Metal has a lot of attitude like Punk Rock has, and it lets people release more aggressions.

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Thanks a lot!!!