Extol are a band that is not content with doing the same thing over and over. With each album, they continue to grow as artists and while this may annoy some fans who favored one particular album over the others, Extol can never be accused of allowing themselves to become stagnant. From the early days of a more Death/Black metal sound to the current state of semi-progressive thrash, Extol have always challenged themselves and their audience.

Peter: Well, it’s just a very natural development for us. All of our albums have been quite different, I think, from eachother. From "Paralysis" to "Synergy", we wanted to go more in a technical thrash kind of direction and also on the new album is a huge development. It’s all very natural for us the way we mature and the way we write songs; we do whatever we have on our hearts, you know. Just being ourselves.

Peter: Well, yeah, of course I can understand that people didn’t expect that. However, people should expect that we do different stuff all the time because we always do. So at least by now, people that have been with us for a long time should know that we always try to challenge ourselves and do new stuff all the time. It’s just very, very important for us to be ourselves and write the music that we like and if people don’t like it, meh. We can’t listen to everybody.

Peter: Exactly.

Peter: Both I would say. Of course we want to promote the new stuff whenever we’re on tour and just released a new album, so it’s the same now. Today, we’re mostly going to play songs from "The Blueprint Dives" and because it’s the new album, those are the songs we want to promote. But we still play old stuff, but if we have a forty-five minute set, we won’t play thirty-five minutes of old stuff and ten minutes of new stuff; we’ll do it the other way around.

Peter: Hmmm... don’t think so. Probably not.

Peter: (laughs) Yeah, probably.

Peter: It was very disappointing for us because it was a show that we had been looking forward to. Things just happened where we were hit by a tornado and it was snowing, (laughter) it was just terrible; we had no chance of getting there in time, so we just found it best to cancel it and stay where we were at the time.

Peter: Yeah, exactly.

Peter: Well, at first when they left, we were kind of bummed out, obviously. I mean, Christer, my brother, we started this band together with David eleven years ago and just felt weird that he wasn’t going to be in the band anymore. And also, Ole has been a big part of Extol for a long time. But then when the new guys came in, it was just amazing. We just found the chemistry at once and all the way up to now it’s just been amazing, amazing fellowship and a great time writing songs together, so now it’s all good, for the best for everybody, for Christer and Ole as well.

Peter: Well, Ole is a full-time musician, he does a lot of different cover bands, but his thing is his solo career, which is more like a funk band. So that’s why he didn’t want to go full-time with Extol because he wanted to focus on that. My brother, he’s still in a band but they’re not taking it to that level. He’s starting to become a teacher now, getting married and all that good stuff. But he’s still in a band called Benea Reach; I don’t know if you’ve heard of Self Mindead...

Peter: They’re kind of the new Self Mindead. So he’s still doing music.

Peter: Long term... it’s very hard to see far ahead, but we’ll be touring here for another one and a half months, we’ve already been here for one and a half months, we’re going back to Europe for touring more over there again, we’re going to Japan in October for a three week tour there. After that, we don’t know. When it comes to spiritual stuff, we just want to get to know God better everyday. That’s just part of life. Getting to know eachother, sharing life as we are called to do as Christians, you know. Just building great fellowships and stuff like that.

Peter: No problem. Thank you, man.