The album was recorded here in our hometown Oulu around the turn of the year and it was mixed at Grooveland studios in Lahti, Finland in February. We prefer recording in Oulu, because this way you are able to live as normal life as possible when you're not working in the studio. We are still working on the cover art, otherwise everything is already finished. A Dead Heavy Day will be released in August.

In my opinion there's much wider spectrum of different kind of songs on this one. What I mean is that on one hand there's some really heavy and aggressive stuff on the album and on the other hand there are some really melancholic and melodic songs, but I don't think there's going to be any major surprises. I see A Dead Heavy Day as a natural growth from Lust Stained Despair.

Well, I think there are some really great songs on our first album, but the production is a bit toothless. On Lust Stained Despair our roots started to show more and more. What I mean is that we grew up listening to bands like METALLICA and IRON MAIDEN and if you listen closely you can their influence on the second album. The major difference between the second and the third album is that this time we had a whole band participating in the recording session. When we were recording Lust Stained Despair our ex-bassist Janne Kukkonen had just left the band and Antti Remes and Janne Markus hadn't joined us yet, so there was only Ville, Marco and me when we started working on Lust Stained Despair. I think you can hear the difference on the third album in a positive way.

Leppaluoto left because he wanted to concentrate on his other band CHARON and Janne left for more or less personal reasons. I used to play with Antti in a band called SOLUTION 13 and when Janne left, I suggested Antti to Ville, he said Ok and that was pretty much it. After playing so long together, it's really easy for Antti and me to work as a rhythm unit.

As you know, Ville has written the most of our songs, so it was kind of natural choice. The third album is produced pretty much by the whole band and who knows, maybe we will use a professional producer in the future...

I think it's just natural development. We grew up listening to bands like METALLICA and IRON MAIDEN and I think it's their influence what you can hear in our music.

In my opinion it's quite natural that people compare us to SENTENCED, because Ville is our singer. There are still four totally different individuals in POISONBLACK and I think the chemistry between all five of us gives us our own sound. I won't deny that having Ville in the band has opened us many doors, but I don't see us claiming their glory or anything like that. They were a great band and they are good friends of ours, so the whole subject feels kind weird to me...

Oh, this is a tough one! There's so many of them! Let me see... I've always loved to play Raivotar live, so guess that's worth mentioning... One of my favorites is a song called The Days Between from the upcoming album... It's quite impossible to name just one; it depends so much on what kind of mood I'm in that particular day!

Well, LORDI is not really my cup of tea, but I think HIM has many great songs. In my opinion Finnish metal is sort of trendy right now. After this trend is over, I think the best and most original bands will survive and still continue making exciting music.

There's so many of them. All of us in POISONBLACK have very different music taste, so it's really hard to name just a few. Let's say everything from RHAPSODY to MOTORHEAD and everything in-between.

For me it's first time, but Ville has been there before with SENTENCED. He has told us only good things about Greek fans, so all the rest of us are really waiting to get there.

I think it's going to be lots of fun! They are an excellent band and they really cool guys, so we don't mind at all playing with them.

While taking a look at your official website, I didn't see any other performances except from the two Greek dates and the one in Finland.

Aren't you going to play any other shows?

Sure we will, but after the new album is released. We are going to take this summer quite easy and load our batteries for the next fall. I think we are going to play quite many shows after the album release.

SOLUTION 13 doesn't exist anymore. That band sort of dried up already a few years ago. Marco is still playing in KALMAH and Antti also plays bass in a band called MARY.

You're right. None of us makes the living completely out of music. Marco is still studying, but the rest of us have daily jobs.

Man, this is another one! Music has been big part of my life since I was a little kid, so it's really hard to say... I guess I would have tried to find a job with lots of traveling. I have always enjoyed of being on the road and visiting different countries and cities.

Like I mentioned before, Ville has told us that Greek fans are really devoted and enthusiastic. Therefore I'm expecting the crowd to be quite wild there. And who knows, maybe we are going to have a wild party after the show?!

I would like to say thank you to our Greek fans for their interest and support! Keep it heavy!