Was that like going back to the old days of Edguy when you were just starting out?
No – even when we were starting out, we recorded one after each other. It was new for us. Everyone could take time to record on their own with headphones and could focus on playing. That’s what you want to do as a young musician – it’s exciting. You can work on your own. Everyone can record over and over again until its right. But it’s much better for the overall feeling to not work like that. And that’s funny because that’s what every musician has to go through: First of all you explore the technical possibilities and then get together and say; ‘Hey, finally – after all we are a heavy metal band. We’re supposed to be five people standing looking at each other and just playing’. And the big advantage is when you play in one room – everybody at the same time – you focus much more on the whole entity. You play much more with your heart and your guts, than focussing on your fingers and thinking about your playing. That adds a rough edge to the whole thing. [DS] There’s a lot of theatrics
