• What is your favorite song of this album?
Andy: My favorite song is “New Vampyre”
Stephan: Black knight
Andreas: Soul alliance
Torsten: My favorite song is Black Knight
Günter: I go for the ballad (Misery affection)) and Black Knight
• What was the hardest part of recording this album?
Andreas: To record the different instruments for the songs isn´t that
hard because we got used to work in a studio and it’s also fun to see a
song growing. Still the hardest and also most important part is to find
the right balance between all that instruments and the vocals.
Torsten: Working out a mix that shows every aspect of the song is very
difficult - because on the other side we will never be able to show
every detail.
Günter: Like always the mixing process. For me it is also the arrangement.
I do not only arrange ma keyboard tracks that I play. I also arrange all the
orchestral voices and instruments. And this is a lot of work. But it is also a
challenge and at some point it takes you to another sphere.
• What was the song that you enjoyed the most to record?
Andy: a) Misery affection- because I had the chance to perform such
a wonderful duet with the talented and unbelievable singer Julia
Steingass. b) The King and the Children of Lost World – because there
was such a big space and a possibility to show a huge pallet of different
emotions and performance styles. This song has composing wise a very
big range and was so very very interesting to perform for me.
Stephan: Black knight – I like the mix of the heavy riffs and the acoustic parts.
Torsten: Soul Alliance - first of all, I like playing these bass-parts - I
hope we will play this song live very often. The other reason is that in
the end this bass-parts worked perfect in the mix.
Günter: New Vampyre – because it was not in the theatre-production
and was new in the process of the record. So I could play and invent
new stuff to that cool song.
• Are you already satisfied with the answer from fans and people around
the world?
Andreas: It´s great to have this response after all this years. It’s the
fans who make it possible to be able to go on as a band. Nothing is
important like that.
Günter: Yes, very much. The fans really like this one.
20