Very good, thank you. It's warm out here and the day has been nice on all accounts.

N: It’s been really good so far. Although there was one thing, we toured the States a couple months back and our album wasn’t released yet. I think it got released like on the very last date of our tour over there. So the timing was really bad that time. These festival shows are actually the first gigs that we have done after people have heard the new songs on record. The audience response has been excellent. We have been trying out different songs on these festival shows and some have worked better than others. It takes time for ourselves to really get to feel the new material live and what works best. It’s not always feeling perfect but that’s the way it always is.

N: Well, Mikael (Stanne, vocalist) does the lyrics so he could answer this best, but I believe the title is his take on the concept of “fiction versus reality”. It is like a metaphor of us and our music. Six normal guys making music, that will hopefully turn into something very different. It will hopefully turn into a world of its own, a fictional world of course, but still something relating to the opposing, mundane and boring world of every day life. It’s also reflected in the cover art for the new album, which is actually a photo that I took out of the tour bus window, when we were touring the US. It portrays a touring scene but at the same time has elements added, that are not real and are hidden. Put simply, I think the title represents the concept of making something out of the ordinary with music.

N: *laughs* Well, I think he must have had a whole garden of magic mushrooms. Actually, we didn’t have much to do with the whole making of the video. We got e-mail from a German Dark Tranquillity-fan, who offered to make that very video for Terminus. Of course we said yes, because the concept sounded so cool. He made the video very quickly, in just a couple of weeks. We assumed that it would be hilarious, although not so well done overall. But when we saw it we thought it was great and decided to make it the official video for the song. Just because it was different and shows another side of the band. ‘Cause usually our videos are serious, like most bands have. Playing at a warehouse and all that. And the fan feedback that we have gotten for this Lego-video has been so good, and considering how little work and money it took from us, that it was most definitely worth it. It’s funny how places like Youtube allow you to get your band out there so easily without spending a fortune on it.

N: I’d have to say it’s either Inside The Particle Storm or Empty Me. The latter has this mid-part with these very technical, progressive bits and playing, that I feel are quite psychedelic. That song was actually very tricky to cut in the studio. We had to take so many takes for that. So I would guess that if you listen to that song while under the influence, it will sound quite weird.

N: Our mission? To crush, destroy and obliterate, I’d say. Well, I guess like with any other band we try to give the audience the best possible performance. A lot of people don’t really consider that when you are touring, so much time goes into doing nothing, just travelling. Like take a festival show on Saturday, like we have today. For shows like this, we usually leave home on Friday and then fly back on Sunday, while on Saturday you only had 45 minutes to play. So you are really, really focused on that small amount of time you have to give the best show you can. I guess we go into a sort of killer-mode and try to make the best out of it.

N: It would be really cool if it were a blast beat, but I think that the rhythm of life would be more like a steady bass-jam, going at the beat of a heart. But of course different people would have different rhythms. The rhythm of my life would definitely be a blast beat.

N: Beer? Of course!

N: Well, we are a bit alcoholic in that sense, because, you see, we don’t really care much about the quality of beer. It’s the quantity that matters. Like while touring the States we ask for as many crates as possible of the cheapest beer you can find. We do this, even if the locals say that the cheapest stuff is water, and you can’t drink that, etc. If the same amount of money gets us ten crates of that stuff or five crates of some fancy, imported beer, than we’ll take the set of ten, thank you. If for some reason I want to drink beer for the taste, then I think some sort of Weissbier would be best. But we don’t really have demands while on tour. If it’s beer, we will drink it.

N: Well, aaah, that’s a tricky one. I guess something like this day would come pretty close. Thousands of people on a festival drinking beer and enjoying the music. A thing like this is hard to generalize, but I think festivals like these come close to what heavy metal is all about.

N: Thanks a lot right back!