Do you find it harder to top yourself as a song writer after several years and severals album?
Sometimes it gets difficult but you have to be in the right state of mind. A creative mood is always good when exploring the guitar or experimenting with scale blending. How many songs did you record for SCARS OF THE CRUCIFIX? Will your Japanese fans get their own bonus tracks? Every song we recorded is on the album. There are no bonus tracks. IN TORMENT IN HELL lacked a bit of that Deicide trademark for some really intense and damn catchy song structures. Did you somehow keep this particular album in mind when trying to prove with SCARS OF THE CRUCIFIX that you are not old and tired in 2004? I’m still trying to get over IN TORMENT. That album had real potential but it was rushed. We had no time to write song structures correctly. We didn’t even have time to write proper leads. We just wanted off of Roadrunner Records. They didn’t care about Deicide anymore. They were more interested in bands like Slipknot. Also, we wanted to prove to ourselves that we still can write good songs and en
