Hey Lior! Thank you for the interest! I'm fine and I hope you are too! As you said, we are in the song writing process for our new album. We are very excited with what is going on and how the songs are shaping up. Everything seems to work perfectly and the ideas are coming flawlessly. There are some new songs that came out and we feel that we are very close to something good. We work with the same way we did in the last albums and the result seems very promising. But we won't enter the studio before we feel that we are 100% sure that we have "something really good to say". We take our time, and don't rush things.

Well, it was about time!!!!! For us, this was a nice trip back in the times when during the progress, "stories" came out. The procedure of all the necessary things that had to be done for the reissues was refreshing. Each and every one of these albums is a "picture" of our lives back then, showing who we were at that period of time. But also, it was a strange thing to see our progress through time, from one album to another.

In these last years the band made a big progress in all levels and made several steps forward. We've seen our fan base becoming bigger and more devoted to InnerWish, but the most important thing is that we feel that we are stronger than ever and we are lucky enough to have a stable line up for a long period of time. From time to time there was a discussion about reissuing our first albums, because we felt it was something we had to do. Lots of fans where asking for these albums and I believe that it was kind of an obligation towards them.

The main think here is that we are lucky. We are lucky because we belong to a label that understands who we are and what are doing. They respect "InnerWish" as a band and as individual persons and they show us that in every part of our cooperation by any way they can. And the most important thing is that they respect us as artists and they don't behave us like we are a "bag of potatoes" (haha) that they only have to sell!!! Of course, Ulterium is a label and has to have income and follow the "rules of trading", but from the band's and composer's side of view, we feel the need to know that they like what we are doing and represent it with respect. I've been in this "business" for quite a long time and all these years I've heard lots and lots of stories. Believe me, what we have with Ulterium, is the most precious think to have in this "business"! But to get to your question. We had a show in Oslo and Emil (the label's mainman) came to see us, so we also had the chance to talk about the reissues and plan everything, face to face. I think it took us about 5 minutes and few sips of coffee to arrange everything.  As simple as that!!!

All the releases will be in CD and Vinyl. The main idea was to give something extra to the fans. We made some changes when it comes to the artwork and the inlay and I think that the outcome is great. We also added some liner notes, trying to "tell" the story behind every album and describe each period. There was a lot going on and back then and many stuff couldn't be written because we would need to create a small book hehe. For the artwork and inlay adjustments, we worked with our good friend George Zacharoglou once again, who is a great graphic designer and responsible for the art in "Silent faces" and "No turning back". Above all, we can totally communicate with him, tell him what we need and simply he delivers because he knows his job perfectly. He made everything seem so easy even though we had to do at the same time 6 different formats and as you can understand there was too much to be done and pay attention to. Overall, I believe the fans will appreciate and like our and George's work!

The packaging though isn't the only thing we worked on for this re-releases, cause all of the albums are remastered also. We worked again with Peter In De Betou, who did the mastering in our latest album, "InnerWish" and he delivered once again, both on the CD and vinyl editions. The final result in more powerful and punchy and Peter did the best he could. We hope you also like it! From our side, we are very excited with how these albums turned out and can't wait to get them in our hands.

Well, from the way I understand it now, "Waiting for the dawn" was the beginning of this magic trip, "Silent faces" was the break through to the rest of the world and a big lesson for more professional conditions and ways to see things and "Inner Strength" is the most complete album of them three and probably the one that established our style of song writing. Of course there are so much more behind every album and there are many stories behind them, but for sure, each and every one of them stands for what it is and it will always be there for us to remind us who we were back then and where we come from.

Can't lie to you, so…. YES! Haha but that would be tricky. Because in any case, whatever changes you make, there are things you loose and things you gain. We talked about rerecording and stuff, but these albums stand there for what they are and represent the energy, passion, diversity in periods, youth, whatever you want to call it of InnerWish at every step of our career. So we wouldn't do that. Because the main thing that we were going to miss, it would be the magic behind them. Of course the sound would have been better, a lot of stuff would have been better too, especially with the way we see our music now, but let's keep the past the way it is, shall we? J

Oh… it's really difficult to choose. There are lots of songs that I like and we still enjoy playing live and listening to. But with the "gun in my head" and if I had to choose two songs from each album I think the list would look like this:
1. Waiting for the Dawn ("Waiting for the dawn" album)
2. Ready for Attack ("Waiting for the dawn" album)
3. Silent faces ("Silent faces" album)
4. Dancer of the storm ("Silent faces" album)
5. Feel the magic ("Inner strength" album)
6. Gates of fire ("Inner strength" album)
I already don't feel good with this list.  I left so many songs out of it. Shit!

I think that the most difficult period was at the end of 1998, if I remember well. It was then when me and Manolis where the only members left from the first period of the band. There was just the two of us and we had to start everything from the beginning. I can still remember that it was a hard and disappointing period with many failed attempts to find the right persons to get this band going. But we had great confidence to our dream and we never gave up. There was no possibility to stop doing this thing. We just had to find the right persons to share the dream with us. Then Antonis and Fotis joined the band and brought the steadiness and the passion we needed to go on. To be honest, everyone who came in this band gave the best he could and helped the band to grow.  But it would be unfair not to mention that Babis and Lefteris where the guys that helped the most. Their contribution is huge and for a long period of time. Especially Lefteris was the one that helped the band be more extrovert. With most of them we still are friends and feel them as part of our family.

There was a thinking of doing a special show in Athens for the 20 years of WFTD, but unfortunately unpredictable factors didn't let us organize it the way we wanted. So I think we missed the timing for it.

As I told you before, we are very close to finish the song writing process. Probably in the middle of next year we'll enter the studio and hopefully at the end of the year we'll have a new album out there for you. For sure, we are working a lot on it!

Thanks a lot my friend. All the best to you and Metal Temple and thank you for your support!!!