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Waiiiittt a minute. I meant to say MONDAY the SEVENTH! Someone else's interview will be posted on Friday... Lalle Larsson's, to be precise. You guys should check his out too, though

No problem. I hope you all can't wait till Monday!

Sean from Progressive Ears posted this:

As you may have heard, tracking for the next Beardfish CD is done so I took a minute to holler at Rikard and ask him to tell us about it!

PE- How would you describe the musical direction on the new Beardfish CD?

RS- We've tried to create a progish hard rock monster! There's a bit of heavy metal twists and turns in there and I don't think David and I have ever done so many guitar dubs, haha! But there's also some 60's pop oriented stuff in there, think Love or The Zombies... there's a jazzier song too that features a sax player... There's also of course a real prog monster called "And the stone said; If I could speak" which had the project name Prog Majestic!

PE- Was there any concious plan to write a certain kind of CD?

RS- Nah, not really... I can't say honestly that we knew from the beginning how it would turn out when we started rehearsing the first song. But once we had the first few I think we felt like we wanted to keep it groovy, more riff based and to incorporate a rougher sound.. It's been a fun ride!

PE- What past BF CD would you say this new one has the most in common with?

RS- None of them, and all of them!

PE- When do you see it being released?

RS- In the fall, if we're fast enough with the post production it could be released in late August, early September!

PE- Is it too soon to share the name or a few track titles?

RS- I don't want to share the name in the (not likely) case we'll change it, but some track titles are: "The Platform", "Akakabuto", "Without Saying Anything" and "Ventriloquist"

PE- What's the average length of the tunes? Anything approaching epic porportions?

RS- There is a 15 min track (the prog monster!), the others are everything from 4 to 8 mins in length. And there is no title track, a first for us!

PE- Did you keep the F word to a minimum this time in hopes of radio play?

RS- Haha! No, but it doesn't pop up everywhere either. It's not Destined Solitaire... it's more aggressive but with less cursing!

PE- Would you say this CD picks up where Destined Solitaire left off?

RS- Hard to say... Maybe! It's like.. the songs are quite different from our previous ones, but they still sound Beardfish. Hard to say!

PE- Was there any theme you wrote around this time?

RS- Yeah; death, the ice age, love and life.. oh and extinct animals!

PE- Are we visiting Gooberville again?

RS- I'm sorry to say, no! We'll get back there eventually but not this time around!

PE- Musically how would you describe the new CD?

RS- Like being trampled down by a mammoth... and liking it!

Well I had to do something, after all the work we put into it.