The themes evolves quite naturally. We are not aiming for a record to sound a certain way except the way we sound. Of course we try not to sound the same as the previous records. This time we are almost sure that we are gonna work with a guy and record in his studio. We have been recording everything ourselves up to this point.

That depends on how you do things. Every band finds their way to write songs eventually and if they don't, they will probably not last very long as a band haha.

That would be me (Thomas) actually. I am the one writing almost everything of the music and lyrics and i throw away a bunch of songs even before i play the ideas to Mika and Esben. Sometimes we rehearse ideas and I (or we) don't get the Monolord vibe for it and we toss it out the window. And sometimes we all just like it right away.

That is different from time to time. Sometimes i have a line of lyrics that i start building on. Sometimes i have a drumbeat in my head. Sometimes just a melody. So i am starting out with one of those things, record the ideas and just let it go where it goes.

Not really inspired by any other band like that. Sure i can listen to a good record and wish i wrote just that cool riff but it isn't like "ah this is a good riff, now i must make a good riff too". It is more what i already have in my backbone, what music i grew up with formed my songwriting i think.

If we have a song that i or someone else in the band didn't like we wouldn't play it live. Right now i really enjoy Lord Of Suffering live. Always get a good kick out of that one.

Black Sabbath called it quits so, no dream bands. We have played many great places. Royal Albert Hall for example. There are many cool venue out there but i like to just take it as it comes.

Mika played in Rotten Sound and The Don Darlings among others. I have played in bands since i was 13 or 14. Esben too. The latest before Monolord for me was the boogie rock band Marulk. Me and Esben played together in that band. Esben knew Mika a bit from some project and introduced me to him and he joined me and Esben to put down some tracks of bass on the first Monolord record.

Vænir is an old swedish name for Vänern, which is the biggest lake in Sweden. It is also believed to be an old name for the word friend. So no, I don't think it has anything to do with gods.

I don't know about Sweden. I think you will have to ask someone else about that. We don't play that often in Sweden for that matter. When we do it is probably more exiting compared to if we played here a lot.

Yes! Let's have a blast in September!