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My idea for this album was to let go of the force, in a way, without the skill and without the experience, but create directly from the source like we did in the early days with Emperor. We had no experience, we weren’t really skilled at what we were doing, but the conviction and the passion were really strong and we built on top of that. I think I wanted to get back to that way of creating, and, to put it bluntly, to make a pure black metal feeling album by totally different means.
http://www.metalsucks.net/2013/10/16/exclusive-interview-ihsahn/