How has Vinland Saga been received around the world?
Liv: We’ve been amazed at the response from around the world. It’s sold well in places we weren’t expecting like Australia and Japan. antiMusic: Lovelorn was released in Aug of 2004. You really cranked out the new record which is amazing considering all that went into it. Liv: We felt really inspired after finishing our European tour at the end of 2004. That was the first tour of Leaves Eyes. And the response from the audience was just fantastic. So when we returned shortly before Christmas.I just expected everybody to go home and to spend their time with the families and turn up sometimes after New Years. But everybody turned up in the studio early, eager to start composing new songs. So everything happened very fast. We needed about two months longer than for Lovelorn. So, it seemed like after we had written about 8 or 9 songs, we realized that the Vinland Saga was going to be a bit more complex than Lovelorn. We were a little bit worried, though, how toyou always want to be betterto
