 Amandu Sneestrom from Bloodbath in Catatonia. I play the Black Store 101 series and also the Plymouth. For me the whole summer festival season is standing out. I mean Bloodbath is an active band where we're touring. We're lucky enough to just get together, get all the guys together from their own active other main bands. Hit some festivals, just a one long extended party basically. So I mean we never toured or anything so basically the festivals for us is our tour. That's how we always had it. First of all I can't really put into context that we've been around that long. I would never have guessed that being around for that long. The band started out just as a side project. It's a fun thing to do. It's still a bloody fun thing to do. It just moved up from being a side project into more of a serious thing. And I think musically we've been through the whole kind of everything in death metal basically. The touching up on the Florida stuff, the Stockholm stuff, the really brutal stuff, the heavy stuff, the fast stuff, everything. It's like a chameleon really in metal which is touch upon what we enjoy basically. It's a big freedom to do that. No one's telling you to do anything. It's just appreciation 100% for Bloodbath. So it's a very liberating band to be in. I would probably think about death metal 30 years rather than 20 years. Because my biggest memories is from the late 80s, early 90s. That's when the first peak for death metal was really big. And incredible releases came out during those years. And then 10 years later death metal kind of went a little bit away. Music, you know, I wouldn't say trends but it kind of cycles back and forth what's bigger and for the moment and stuff like that. But these days I think death metal is just as big as it ever was. The interest is out there and some of the legendary bands are still doing it. And there's a hell of a lot of new talents out there actually to whoop my ass any day. Back in the day that was more like, what do you call it? The competition wasn't a fierce actually. These days young guys 12, 14 years old will knock you off. It's crazy how the evolution turned like that. But it's all good, it's very healthy. It's all about music in the end anyway. Good fucking music. I think one music kind of led to another like I grew up with having metal music. And somehow down the line you always seek what's heavier, what's more brutal than this. And kind of automatically led you into thrush metal. And the thrush metal bands kind of open up for the death metal thing. So it gives a natural kind of progression into what's more extreme. And then on the sidelines you have the black metal thing going on and everything. And the doom metal thing going on and I kind of just embraced it all basically. And also tape trading was a big, big, big reason for finding out what was out there. Because the internet wasn't around, not invented yet. So it was all word of mouth tape trading and the scene was really vibrant back then. People met in the record stores. The local record store was actually like the Blubbermouth where you heard rumors and exchanged all the news. So it was a cool time, just very primitive. I think with every singer we've been having they brought something different toward the table. Michael, Peter, Nick, they're all excellent singers, good frontman. But they have a very distinguished, different kind of style. So I never compare them to each other. And I never will. I just appreciate that we're having them in a band. And these days we're working with Nick. He's been in a band now for four plus years. And we just cut a new album. Actually it's going to come out this fall. And he's on that as well of course. I think we're having a blast. Nick is really fitting in. We were friends before he joined the band. So the social thing is actually even just as important these days. Because when you're working that close with someone and you're traveling with them, you really got to get along. And Nick's funny guy is a great sense of humor and everything. So I love having Nick in a band. I love having Nick in a band. With Bloodbat, it's more about keeping up the legacy of a death metal tone. We've been always representing the Swedish sound kind of more or less. We always incorporated the legendary Boss HM2 pedal. And we always morphed that with the Black Star amp, per se. So you keep like the overdrive pretty low on the Black Star. And you color the EQ and the level from the pedal into the amp. This colorization, that's just basically the trademark Bob-up. So if it ain't broken, you're not fixing it. In the studio we do live, we use whatever we get our hands on basically. We're not too fuzzy about it. We can get anything to work. But obviously the HM2 pedal is not involved with Canada. For obvious reasons. There's no chainsaw going on in there. Same guitars. Same guitars, just a different kind of attitude. But yeah, I guess it's still, I mean, same fingers moving on the fretboard. It was probably Michael from OPAP that hinted about it and said like, you know, the classic Marshall thing, if you want the modern version of that, you see Black Star. That was dead on at the time when he said that. And yeah, it's been smooth, it's always worked. And I love the little practice amps and everything, just a good line in general. Our old gigator play used to have the 200 watts. I always had the 100 watts, I think it's enough for me. No, it's just been working excellent actually. And I always loved the British to the US kind of modern thing. I always loved that. It's just that one fucking knob can do that much colorization. That was a huge turn on, like a selling point for me. The next thing on the map for Bloodbath will be a brand new album, our fifth full-length album. And as I said before, we only been doing festivals though, but now that's going to change into touring actually. Yeah, so we're going to bring it up a notch. Head out on two tours coming up for 2018 and 2019. So the next tour on the corner, it's going to be in December with Craig, Thor, Timmy Borger and the HitRid. Catatone is a little bit on a hiatus right now, so not much immediate plans, but in the long run we're probably looking at making another album at some point. And once that's done, we always end up in a cycle of three, four years touring. So it's going to be a lot of... I'm going to get busy for sure.