Thank You.. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. That pretty much it, haha. All in all it's of course nice to talk about something you really love to do, by that I mean music.

Of course I do prefer Isolation Songs. I think that's the whole point of doing albums. I guess you really don't wanna make a worse album than previous, haha. But seriously, I think IS is more mature, more tight entirety that has developed really naturally in it's final form. Simply it's just better album.

Our music consists of atmospheric yet heavy riffing with a dose of beautiful melancholic melodies, despair and rage. Of course I recommend to listen to our music and defining based on what you hear.

That's always a hard one. I cannot name just a one or two or even fifty biggest musical influences. It's a thing you can't define. Let's put it this way, our musical influence can be a big decision in life, seeing a great gig, Napalm Death, a holiday trip, Ulrich Schnauss or a goddamn hangover. I just can't name a biggest influence just because as I see it, defining a biggest influence don't walk hand in hand with the way we make music. Of course everyone has their personal heroes in music. Mine are mostly from pre-teen years and they are Ace Frehley, Cliff Burton, Josh Homme and my late uncle Antti, who for example did not ever play any instrument, but he pretty much got me into music and to play guitar, and my style of playing has nothing to do with their styles in playing or in life, they just made me do things differently. Anyway the influences are pretty much subconscious I think. Like, you get the certain feeling and some melody or riff starts to play in your head and when you grab a guitar or whatever instrument to create a song out of it, it's subconscious what mixes it in your head and makes you play it in a certain way.

Thanks! Five weeks in charts was totally not something we would expect to be happening in a million years. I really don't about the commercial success, and it's one thing I actually never, ever think about. We definitely live one day at a time. As cliché it is, this is the thing we all love to do and we will always think about our well-being as a band and how fun it is, before how many records we have sold.

If you think about the writing itself, it's not always easy, obviously. If you have ever written music you know that it isn't. Thinking album- wise the whole songwriting process as we do it, usually goes on pretty naturally and I guess that makes it somewhat easy as well. I think it's more question of how you end up doing it with a certain people.

We actually don't plan anything, at least for not that long period of time. Of course there's always thoughts and maybe dreams how we'd like to see that things are in ten years from now. Those kind of thoughts are aging in our heads and they pop up if the time is right or they seem to be sensible in some point. But, if I try to answer the question, I'd say that in our hearts. Even we still exist as a band or not. Hope we do.

For example, I don't know if I consider odd timings and strict musical virtuosity progressive at all. I think it's the way how you express your music, not how you count it. It would be much easier to answer this question if I would know in which genre we belong.. for me the genre definitions remain pretty unnecessary. Everything is brought to you with so goddamn easy-to-consume- style nowadays. There must be like million bands that are really good and do honestly whatever they do but they are put out in a way that makes them look very cheap and disposable. That's a crappy way to deal with someone's art. To the question what makes us stand out, I say the simple fact that we sound like us and nobody else. I think that's a lot nowadays. When you put your heart in your music really believe in what you do, that's enough and it really shows and just that should be enough to make you stand out from other bands.

No. I mean, personally we are at some point politically conscious, some of us more, some less, but as a band we do think that's not our cup of tea. We like to keep music and politics separated in Ghost Brigade.

Alcohol really gets consumed, as we are Finns..haha. I think we're pretty basic people when it comes to partying. Party when it's possible. I mean not that much when touring, but if there's some spare time we won't actually say no.. My personal tipple would be vodka straight up.. If I get to choose a brand it would be Zubrowka. It's polish vodka spiced with bison grass. There's actual cane of that grass in the bottle and the flavor is really one of a kind.

Chuck Ragan - Feast Or Famine, Jesu - lifelines EP, Sleep's Holy Mountain, Steve Von Till - A Grave Is A Grim Horse, Unsane - Visqueen

It would be rather easy to put someone like Hitler, Stalin, some Hutu rebel or someone else who is responsible of a goddamn genocide. Those people deserves to be erased from the history, but wouldn't that be like postponing their unacceptable deeds to be done later..? Ok, I'm boring, I started to analyze :) But this is one matter I really thought about after seeing some movie, I don't remember which one it was but it made me think about how history would change and would it be good thing. Will everything happen eventually? How many times more horrible the consequences will be? And so on.. I'm not sure I answered the question, haha! So, I could just say Hitler or make it personal and say the guy who fucking poisoned my cat.

I don't have a fave joke. I hear them so much that I always forget everything. This just came in to my mind.. Doctor calls to his patient: "Hello, I think I accidentally prescribed antidepressants to your diarrhea.." Patient: "Yeah, you know, I started wondering.. I've been sitting here with shit in my pants for two hours and it doesn't bother me at all.."

Thanks! Cheers! Eat, sleep, ice-skate, run, smoke, make love, sew, whatever makes you happy and never compromise. Peace.