Jonas - (smiling) Sweden! Definitely.

Jonas - Sweden came in second in the hockey World Championship and Finland came… I don't know, way below. So, just that tells you that Sweden rocks and Finland doesn't. (laughter) But seriously, they're great guys, Children Of Bodom. We're having so much fun and right now I couldn't imagine a better band to share a bus with, because we're having so much fun and every night is a crazy party.

Jonas - Yeah, it's basically been how the crowd on this tour has been responding. It's just amazing to us. The first opening act, when we go on stage, it feels like we're the headliner. We've had such a great response and we always go out after the show and talk to the fans, have a drink or whatever and I think they appreciate it as much as we do. We hate this kind of diva thing, where you just sit on the bus or try to be anonymous, like you're trying to be better than you are, but it's silly. You're as much a person as I am. We just want to go out there and talk with the fans and have a good time, you know? I feel that the crowd has almost as much impact as we do. It's kind of a game; when we go up on stage and deliver our music to the crowd and they give us feedback, we're going to be even better to them, so it's like this kind of game going on. That's pretty cool.

Jonas - Yeah, there is. We don't have nothing scheduled yet, but we have plans, so hopefully in the Fall / Winter, we'll come back.

Jonas - Prefer to tour with? (pauses) Kiss. (laughs) You know? We'll just see what happens. It will be good, anyways.

Jonas - I think it was the last gig on the last European tour. In Germany, I think. As a big finale, they brought all the members of Therion and Evergrey up on stage and did this cover of Udo. Everyone had a blast and it was just a cool thing, basically.

Jonas - That was actually the director's idea. He came over to Tom's house one day and I accidentally came to be there at that moment, even though I wasn't in the band then. So he said "I've got this pretty cool idea, but I can't explain it until you've seen it on the screen, so you have to trust me on this one." He explained what he could and we thought, "yeah , let's go for it," because he did the Master Plan video and he also did the Blinded video. When we say the results of the video, it was like, "yeah, that's awesome."

Jonas - I don't know, actually. The recording and mixing process was only like nine weeks and then they did the pre-production. I don't know how they managed to do that, because I wasn't even in the band at that time, but I was still around almost every week of those nine weeks because I liked to hang around and watch the process. But all of the members felt that they could have done the album so much better than they did. They had this timeline and they just did it and when they were finished, they were like "I don't even want to hear this shit anymore" because they were so sick and tired of it. They were living in the studio for like forty-eight hours in a row, working. I saw them and they were fucking worn out as hell. I honestly don't know how they did it.

Jonas - Why not?

Jonas - It's pretty unusual, when you think about it. A metal band just doing all the heavy shit and then just put out what I think are three very good acoustic songs. That's like a whole different image and contrasts the other stuff.

Jonas - The lyrics are really Tom's thing; he's written all the lyrics on this album. Since the Recreation Day album, he's wanted to do a whole album on the Catholic priest child abuse thing. But we felt like we didn't have the knowledge or the research on that, so we did this album based on fanaticism and cults. Tom has written all of the lyrics and its a subject that we all feel involves us all and we get so pissed off, and I'm not pointing at any specific religion, all those leaders that try to pick up members to their cults and try to brainwash them, all that stuff. That's a pretty big thing for us.

Jonas - Thank you, man.