• It's a great pleasure for me to have an interview with open-minded musicians as IRON FIRE. I think that their music is nothing new, but at least is sincere and a good proposal for the persons (like me) that love the classic heavy metal. I suggest you to giv'em a chance they worth it!!! Here is the chat that we have with guitarist of th band  Kristian H. Martinsen .

1. GIVE US A BIOGRAPHY OF THE BAND

• -Well, Martin Steene, Jakob and I live in three very small villages (Slagslunde, Knardrup and Ganløse) about 30 km. from Copenhagen, so we met each other little by little, and we began playing metal in 1995 or something like that. As the band became more and more serious we decided to record a demo-cd to get some more gigs around the country, but we also sent it to different record companies all over Europe, and suddenly we were in contact with 5-6 companies, and after almost one year of negotiating we signed a deal with Noise rec.

• -I would say we are a Heavy Metal band with strong influences from Thrash metal, Rock ’n Roll and of course Power/Speed Metal. I don’t know if it’s possible to call the new album original at all but we have hoped to diverse a bit from all of these typical HammerFall copies out there. Martin is a great Running Wild fan, and I guess he’s inspired by them. I am not crazy about Running Wild at all. I like listening to alternative rock like Radiohead, Placebo, etc… (of course I like metal too!!!)

• -A lot of people really liked the album but all of them were telling us that we were nothing but a HammerFall copy cat. In March we were told that Thunderstorm had sold about 10.000 copies around the world, and we are very satisfied with that.

• -The first album was a typical ”True Metal” debut album with alot of fast songs and one ballad, but the new album has got alot of different feelings and untraditional sources of inspiration, and I hope it diverses our sound a bit from all of the others. We didn’t approach the song-writing differently, Martin Steene is still the song writer. He’s just changed his influences a bit. Now he’s not afraid of being inspired from Testament on one song and Bon Jovi on the next, and I think it’s great.

• -Martin got very tired of writing about Dungeons and Dragons, so after writing 4-5 of the new album, he decided to change the lyrics. They are all about being on the edge in some way whether it’s because of war, love or anything else.

• -I’m not sure, cos I don’t write any lyrics for this band. I hope there is a lot of people drinking beer and having a lot of parties. and beautyful women of course!!!

• -I’m sorry but I am not sure to understand your question correct, but I will try. Well, I’m still not the songwriter in this band, but I think it comes very naturally when you form a band playing covers of all your favourite songs. Little by little you believe that you are good enough to create your own classics.

8. HOW DID YOU CHOOSE THIS BAND NAME? IRON FIRE AND THUNDERSTORM ARE WORDS THAT HIDE AND SUGGEST POWER.

• -We were talking about a lot of interesting band names, and first IronFire came up as a joke, but after a while we choose it, because it’s very easy to remember, and almost everybody knows what it means – and they can guess what kind of band we are! Thunderstorm was just the title of the lucky song that was chosen to be the title track of that album, but you’re definately right!

• -I haven’t got the time to read books these days, and everytime I open a book my eyes won’t stay open more than 10 seconds, unless it’s about Winnie the Pooh or Donald Duck. If I was a book character I would definately be Cujo the killer dog!!!

• -It would be great fun making a soundtrack, but also hard work, I think. I wish I could have made the sountrack for The Crow or Pocahontas    or maybe Titanic.

• -I would love to play some of the big European Festivals like Wacken, Dynamo, Roskilde, etc. but when starting up this band when I was 12 years old we all just had one big dream about releasing a record, and now we have just released our second album through Noise rec. Sometimes I still can’t believe that people all over the planet have the possibility to listen to me, playing guitar. It’s a very funny thought.

• -It would definately turn us into professionals, but wouldn’t you like a job where you do the thing you like the most everyday instead of sweating in a boring office? I would!

• -Goddamn that’s a hard one! I guess it would be On The Edge or Miracle from the new album or Battle of freedom or Riding free from the debut.

• -Metallica, Pantera, Megadeth, Kiss and Robbie Williams, AND I’M NOT HAPPY UNTIL THEY DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

• - I’ve just bought the second album from an English band called Muse. I like it a lot, it’s a little harder than Radiohead, but yet a really good rock act!

• -Martin Steene is the leader in the band, as he was the one starting it all up some eyears ago. He’s also the songwriter, but when he comes up with an idea for a song we all put it together and gives our different opinions about it. I would like the band to be 100% democratic but Martin has always wanted to be the leader, and as long as he’s not behaving like an asshole it’s fine with me.

• -We have played live several times in Denmark, Sweden and Germany, and we really like it. It’s fucking great to go on stage in front of people singing along with you, no matter if it’s 50 or 500.

• -If you like heavy metal with big fucking balls and everything else a good band should have we are worth a chance. I hope. Our next album is definately going to be a quite tough motherfucker, but schhh – don’t tell anybody!

• -Every lyric of Del Amitri describes my personality perfectly! Their songwriter Justin Currie is in my opinion the best composer in the world.

• -Hi IronFans! Take care of yourself and each other!