Killing a person with a 8 cm ling blunt knife is a bloody affair.

To a large degree I don't even like most metal music I hear.

Personally I don't understand why the metal press even bother, but I guess it is good they do.

I am too conservative to use another studio than the one I am used to, so I "had" to travel all the way from France to Norway every time I wanted to record an album. That was about 3,500 km each way in a Lada Niva with a cruising speed of 90 kph.

My own growth comes not (just) individually, but mainly as part of a greater change for the better.

If I like the music then at least some others will too, and that is all that matters in this context.

I think the "dawning of a new era" sounds a bit pretentious, and to me it's simply a step closer to my roots, and thus yes - I do feel liberated by this. I know many dislike this move, and I suspect that it is not really the dawning of a new era, but rather a move to a style which sells less records