You’ve been touring around Europe since the album was released, how have the shows been going?
ED: We did three shows in Europe and they were all festival shows but it’s too early to say. We played the Kings of Black Metal festival in Germany about a year ago [which was Watain’s last show before working on Lawless Darkness], and it’s very weird for us to stay away from the stage for as long as one year, because we feed off the live performances. Since that show, it’s been pushing from within all the time. These first shows that we’ve done for the new album have been about opening the gates again and letting all of it out. Of course they’re really special in that sense. It’s been overwhelming. MO: In a sense, would you describe the live Watain experience as ‘magickal’? ED: That depends on one’s interpretation of ‘magick’, but to me there is magick in our work, and it’s magickal work that we’re doing on the stage in the sense that there is communion between us as persons, as humans, as artists, and something that is far greater than ourselves. Magick to me is the bridge between th
