• EVERGREY HAVE RELEASED THEIR BEST ALBUM OF THEIR CARRERE TILL NOW. MORE HEAVY AND DIRECT THAN EVER ARE HERE TO STORM YOU WITH THEIR BEAUTIFULL MUSIC. WILL YOU RESIST?

• Well,  the band was formed back in `96 by Tom and out former guitarrist Dan. At that time their life wasn´t too good, they were both unemployed and things were´nt going their way so everything was grey….And what name would fit their band better then Evergrey at that point?

• I would say that it´s melodic metal with alot of emotion. The emotion is the most important element in our music without doubt! We often write about darker topics so our music has a very dark sound for the major part. Then we use some progressive elements but I would definitly not call us a progressive band. Perhaps in the true meaning of the word then……our music progresses for every album.

• It´s not a real concept, at least not in the same way as In Search Of Truth. It has a theme that runs through the album and that is about death. It´s about losing someone close to you and how that effects your entire life and how you deal with that situation. How you have to rebuild your life and soul without that person-recreate your life. That´s why we chose the title Recreation Day.

• As I said they all handle death in some way, not always as in the fact that someone has died but also a great loss of some kind.  I think it´s a topic that everyone thinks about every now and then and it is something that everyone can relate to so I think the songs will have a lot of different meanings depending on who listens to them. Unfortunately all of us has experienced a tragic loss of some sort the past 2 years so it was a subject that we all could really relate to and it was something that we felt that we wanted to write about som everything came really natural for us.

• I would say that the main differences is that we have added some more heaviness and energy to this album. We have also concentrated in making good songs and we have therefore sometimes cut down on some musical passeges if it would benefit the song. You could say that we got rid of the bullshit J
• We made alot of gigs on In Search Of Truth and we felt that it lacked a bit of energy live so I guess that´s what made us add that to Recreation Day. The liveshows are now really intense!! J

• Hard to say, that´s a matter of taste. We are very pleased with the result of Recreation Day ouraselves. We chose to produce it ourselves this time together with Fredrik Nordström. The reason why we did this was because we really knew how we wanted the album to sound and as I said, the result turned out just the way we wanted. We brought the guitars to the front of the production to add a more crunchy and heavy sound,  finally you can really enjoy the awesome riffing J

• I can´t say that we have any direct influences that influence us to do the music we do today. We have in my opinion a very unique sound and that is created by our visions. We never force anything out of ourselves, what we write is what comes natural. But of course we are influenced by the things that other do, I believe that everything you like influences you and gives you hunger to create something on your own. But as I said, I can´t mention anyone that inluence us to do our music the way we do. Hm, 10 bands, that´s easy J I’m a big fan of metal, the hard part is to chose just 10!! Well, here we go: Queensryche, Death, Paradise Lost, Cannibal Corpse, Dream Theater, Candlemass, Symphony X, Bolt Thrower, Pain Of Salvation, Emperor, Nevermore, Oops, that was 11 J

• Nope, as I told you only in the true meaning of the word. Progressive is a word that is too often used in todays scene. As soon as someone uses different drumbeats and/or technical stuff they´re progressive. I don´t buy that definition at all.

• I believe the future of Metal is looking strong. I don´t know how the music will develop but everything comes in waves. I don´t think that using electronic stuff will ruin the Metal at all. I have never felt that there should be any limits for what to do is right. Some people seem to think that there are certain rules that you have to follow if you´re a Metalband, for me that is just nonsens. I consider myself to be a musician and I will never ever aloud anyone else to tell me what I can do or can´t do. Such boundaries will only kill music instead of making it evolve.

• 1. My Harley
• 2. The book, The Godfather by Mario Puzo
• 3. My basses, of course
• 4. My stereo (otherwise the 10 records would be useless, would´t they?)
• 5. A brewery to make beer J (Is that aloud??)

• 1. Pantera “Cowboys From Hell”
• 2. Dream Theater “Images And Words”
• 3. Paradise Lost “Icon”
• 4. Death “Individual Thought Patterns”
• 5. Nevermore “Dreaming Neon Black”
• 6. Devil Doll “Dies Irae”
• 7. Queensryche “Operation Mindcrime”
• 8. Ark “Burn The Sun”
• 9. Symphony X “V”
• 10. Candlemass “Best Of” (Too hard to pick one)

• I really don´t know. Saddam must be taken from power but I´m not sure the way it is done is the best. The future will show. Of course it´s terrible that a war is going on…..innocent lives of the civilians are always tragicly taken.

• I see myself living the life I want too, just as I am doing now and have always done!

• I love watching movies, I do it as often as I have time to. I really don´t have a special genre that I like more then the others. A great movie is a great movie!

• I don´t have the interest to make a movie so I have actually never thought about that. Don´t know…….I leave that to others J

• We are going to try to tour as much as possible with the new record. We will hopefully make two bigger tours in Europé and at least one bigger in the States. So far we have some shows planned for Europe, not a full scale tour but some smaller Headline shows. We are later going to head out as a support act for a bigger act so that we can reach out to a wider audience. Keep your eyes on http://www.evergrey.net there you will find all the info about shows etc, etc For now there will absolutely not be any projects, we are all 100% focused on Evergrey. But who knows what the future will bring?? If so it would be something different from what we do today. I have alot of friends withing the music scene so finding an interesting lineup wouldn´t be that hard. I haven´t thought about it so a lineup is impossible to day, it all depends on what kind of music that would be created.

• Right now I would say:
• 1. Carnal Forge
• 2. Symphony X
• 3. Candlemass (watch out for their upcoming album)
• 4. Nevermore
• 5. Soilwork
• 6. Meshuggah
• 7. Pain Of Salvation
• 8. Testament (Chuck Billy is back!!!!)
• 9. Masterplan
• 10.The Haunted

• I hope everyone will take the time and check out Recreation Day. I truly belive it has something for everone.  I´ve heard from alot of people that hasn´t really been into our music before that loved Recreation Day so I guess it offers something new. But it also seems that all of our old fans love it too so it´s still Evergrey. Check it out and I hope to see you all in Greece sometime soon!!!!
• Stay Grey….

KOSTAS : "This last lines are for you, thank you for your time, I think you are playing fantastic, keep up the good work and always look at the future optimistically. Good luck with "Recreation day" ( I am sure you wont need it, because I think it will be another great album!!!)"

• Thank you very much for the interview Kostas, hope to see you soon, until then… - Mike