Where you guys nervous on your first North American tours with Amon Amarth, and later Nightwish?
Those tours where amazing, we played various shows, small and large, but the American fans are so open- minded. No one knew who we where on those tours, but in total we must have played to over 200,000 people and out of that lots of people where buying the merch, and we gained a whole new fan base. And we still get loads of support on Myspace, and Facebook, with fans saying how much they enjoyed our shows, and turn people who have never heard you before, especially when you play with bands who sound so different. It is their shows, to earn the support of the crowd was phenomenal, and I think those tours in particular marked a big change, and a step up for us. But also like I said, it is like a dream to get to play with the bands that we grew up listening to, NightWish, In Flames, Soilwork, to meet them, and know them on a personal level is pretty amazing when before they where just pictures in a CD sleeve or something like that. But to tour with them, and open up all these big venues f
