What does a record deal with Nuclear Blast mean to a metal band?
I think it’s cool, I mean it’s one of the main metal labels and we have a good team of people saying that they understand and like the band and they have pushed us a lot, opened a lot of doors for us since Inwards, because that’s the album that first put us on the map internationally. The album came out in North America, came out in Japan, it was really well promoted all over Europe and we had like, I don’t know, some couple of “album of the month” type of thing and I guess it also has to do with the fact that each of us was very motivated and eager to push for the quality of the record and that’s something that is very important. I mean you, as a band, you can do your very best but maybe people never hear about it because you don’t have the key to open the door to the market. But I think that at the end of the day… I mean I personally don’t think the quality of an album has a lot to do with what name of label is on the back of the CD. I think that… It has to do with the band, the
