Alan: Yeah, it´s going well. This is only more or less about a week since we´ve started and it s all been very positive. I mean, it´s hard to pull people to shows these days, you know. But it´s been all very good., even the mondays, tuesdays and wednesdays, so it´s all well, we cannot complain that much. 

2. You´ve been playing quite often last year in Germany, compared to the earlier years. What´s the reason for this? 

Alan: When we started with the band back in 1994 - 95, with the first album - we weren´t really prepared to go on tour, we changed labels and it just never happened. There wasn´t really that much contact with the scene in general to organize that kind of things. From about 1999 on we started to play a little bit more and a little bit more. We still don´t play all the time, a Primordial gig is something you´re probably only going to see  once every year or twice, in most areas. We want to keep things a bit interesting for people, not tour all the time, but still tour enough to keep people interested. We were young, didn´t have the experience and we did not know how to do things like that, years ago. But now, a bigger label gives bigger opportunities. 

3. Now, you probably might know what I am going to ask you - you were on Hammerheart Records, and then Hammerheart just dissappeared somehow, and they were strange stories about the label. Now you´re on a bigger label - so what do you think about that? 

Alan: Well, it´s kind of sad what money does to some people and that´s all I really have to say about Hammerheart. I am very glad to be away from all the  troubles we´ve had years ago. It´s a bit sad we don´t owe our own albums, but they´re there, re-released through Plastichead Records. But with Metal Blade it´s great, they have good people working there, all musicians who understand what it´s like to be in a band. They don´t promise you what they can´t give you. They are very honest guys, which I like, and at least  you don´t have to worry that they´re not doing their job properly. So if, after being on a label like that, people are still not buying our albums - well, you know. But for us it was nice to finally not have to worry and just be sure in being on a bigger label. 

4. How did people like the new album so far - what were the reactions, and what do you think about it today? 

Alan: We knew, we had to do something different, so we were finally able to have it looking exactly what we wanted it to. So it looks very different to most albums that are out there. It sounds different to the most albums, we just wanted it to sound like if standing in our rehearsal room and we´re just sick of albums sounding like they´re recorded by a computer, just soulless, horrible plastic music with that nothing that stands for nothing. So it´s nice to have a bigger platform with a bigger label and a bigger distribution. Here it doesnt´t sound like everything else,  doesnt´t sound like it´s played by a computer, where the lyrics and the music actually mean something. For us, it´s just a chapter in our story. I don´t know what the next one will be. It´s not perfect, but we weren´t looking for perfection. Just something real, with character. 

5. Alan, thank you for the short interview - you have to get on stage now, so have fun!

Robby