Johan: The differences between these two bands are mainly that The Crown was more aimed on speed and this band is more aimed on mid-tempo heavy metal with death metal vocals, a lot of catchiness and a lot of grooviness that wasn't a part of the Crown sound, I think.

Johan: The goal is to reach every high level possible. Of course, you want to make the best out of your band and you want to be successful. We play kind of extreme music, but extreme music is getting bigger and bigger in the world and a lot of people are getting to notice extreme music more than they did before. After this excellent debut album, which I think we did, we're going to tour as much as possible and then we're going to do another album, try to top this and try to climb the stairs even higher.

Johan: Yeah, exactly. I mean, the album will be released on the fourth of April in the United States and you never know what's around the corner, as you said, and it costs us a lot of money if we're going to go there and it costs Nuclear Blast a lot of money to bring us over, but if they say that we're doing well over in America and they want us over, of course we'll say yes. Touring America, it's something you want to do once a year.

Johan: We did the Children of Bodom tour for seven weeks, those were kind of different bands, a good mixture of bands; we play extreme music and of course Children of Bodom and Ektomorf are also extreme, but a bit more melodic when it comes to Children of Bodom and everything. But this tour with Hypocrisy; Hypocrisy is very old school and Soilwork is doing that new style of music, In Flames stuff, so this is also a very good mixture. It will draw a lot of people, I think, a lot of different people and I think that our music is very good to play in front of all the metal audiences in the world; either if they love Kiss or if they love Cannibal Corpse. I think it's very important to play our music in front of all kinds of people, so that's what we're hoping to achieve; to reach out to every people in the world.

Johan: I don't even know if people had expectations because we are a newcomer. Of course, I played with The Crown for many years, but I mean as a new band, we were newcomers, we were debutants on Nuclear Blast and everything, but the reviews have been awesome; almost a top score on every magazine, so I can't complain. I think the audience that saw us live also thought the same thing. I think the album is going very well in the stores and everything; hopefully it will turn out just as good in the States.

Johan: The funny thing is, when I first started to talk to Andy Siry at Nuclear Blast in early 2005, we actually had the same views and the same thoughts about an album cover and what this band was all about. He knew a guy that he thought could make our visions very, very cool on an album cover, so he did that and I think he did a great job; it's very detailed, the way I like, and it reflects how this band works, within our heads at least. We are the newcomers of the world; we're coming from nowhere to crush everything in our way and we'll show the world that we are a force to be reckoned with. We are five dudes in the band, it's basically One Man Army, the front figure, with his followers, The Undead Quartet, so that's basically what it's all about. I think we will hire the same artist the next time we record an album.

Johan: In the Summer of 2004 when I started to write the music, I was all alone for six months before I decided to put the band together, then I referred to myself as One Man Army. I thought about doing it as a solo band, but when I discovered that the music had some great qualities, the demo went great, I decided to bring it to a full band with five people in it and I just basically put some more words into it. But the whole idea of the long name basically comes from me being very inspired by rock 'n roll music in the sixties when they had a different name on the frontman and a different name on the rhythm section. I think it's very cool to bring that into death metal. Also, the name itself, One Man Army, is like the Rambo figure running in front with his followers, so it's like a mixture of action and horror. It's got a really cool vibe which I want to put in the music as well. There's a lot of action, you know.

Johan: (laughs) Of course there are softer metal bands out there. The lyrics deal with a lot of personal things that I've been dealing with over the years, but I've mixed my personal stuff with fantasy to bring a bit of distance to it. But metal is supposed to be the music of the devil or whatever. When they started to do a bit of the heavy music is the sixties and also when Elvis started, he was the devil, you know. I think it's cool that you can still do that kind of cool thing, like it's the devil's music and even if it's cliché based and everything, it has to match what the music is all about; it's heavy music, it's fast music and everything, you can't have love themes in the lyrics. It's not going to fit the whole concept, because then people would definitely start laughing because the whole concept is failing, if you know what I mean.

Johan: Thank you.