Our friends over at Hardkern.de have recently launched an intervieew we did while were in Europe over the summer.

Here’s a clip from the interview:

Hardkern.de: 6 years have been passed since your last release. What took you so long?

Over the past 5-6 years we have been touring, more touring, songwriting and recording. Three years touring on the last album, then one year off, six months making demos and finding a new label, then a year writing and touring on the new material (new places like Brazil and Australia and of course Europe festivals in the summer). That was followed in early 2005 with pre-production and three months recording the cd with Cameron Webb and finally three months of set-up time for the label to properly market the cd worldwide. Yes….that takes us from June 2000 to May 2006 in one paragraph. Time goes fast!!!

Hardkern.de: It was the same with your further releases. Don`t you think your fans become fed up with such long waiting periods?

I think that our fans would have been really pissed if we would have put out a crappy cd. I think it was better for us to wait and do it right.

Hardkern.de: The title of your new CD is “Our darkest days”. Did you have such a bad time during the last years?

As for the title, these are dark times that we are living in. All of the political strife in the middle east. All of the problems we are having in the U.S. with our government. There are also a numbers of personal struggles that actually gave us the bulk of the influence for this album title. The album title is very relevant to current events for the band and the world. We slowly started working on the songs in 2001 but most of the work was done in 2005.

Click here to read the entire interview!