It feels great. We’ve had some ups and downs when it comes to labels. We feel that Inner Wound has a genuine interest in the band. I’ve worked closely with them regarding the artwork, and the result really exceeded my expectations!

Fabian lives quite a long way away from Malmö, and has a lot of other things going on. I think it was a mutual feeling that his heart wasn’t in it anymore. We miss hanging out with him, but this was probably for the best.

We’ve known Linus a long time, he was the natural choice when Fabian left.

He performed a long solo at our gig in Nürnberg. The crowd loved it! I think he picked up on that and got a bit carried away and nearly broke some of his pedals at the climax of the solo, he was jumping insanely all over his gear!

The new album was already in the mixing phase when he joined the band. We are all looking forward to working with him on some new material.

As usual it was written mainly by Johan Reinholdz (guitar) and myself, Martin Hedin (keyboards). Maybe I’m a bit more responsible for this one. Some of the songs are written indiviually, but most of them are collaborations. Each of us has very different influences, so we often end up with something interesting when working together.

We’ve recorded all over, in the studio, at the school where I’m teaching, at my place, at Johans place, in the bedroom etc. We started in June 2010 with the drums, some of the songs wasn’t even done yet by then! In December it was time for vocals. I was on holiday in Finland and the mixing was supposed to begin in January. So most of the vocals are recorded over the internet!

As usual I produced the album myself. This time we decided to do an analog mix. It’s a whole different thing than mixing in the box, so it was a natural choice to mix with my friend Markus Nilsson. I think we spent about four full working days on each song! But it was truly worth it, since Manifest Tyranny really outclasses our other albums sonically.

I had a lot of ideas for lyrics and came up with the idea of a concept album. It deals with things that bother me about the way things are in the world. The war in Iraq, the corrupt banking system, false flag operations, the complicit media etc.

I could go on and on about this. The lyrics are pretty straight forward, so you’ll get the idea when you read them.

Yes, very much so. Sofia Bennrup (Johans girlfriend) did some great illustrations for the booklet, and Markus Sigfridsson put it all together and did the cover artwork according to my ideas. A very enjoyable collaboration!

Yes, we think so. We’ve always tried to do new things. Not necessarily new things under the sun, but new to us.

This time we’ve gone in all directions. Some passages are angrier than you’ve ever heard us, but at the same time there are more quiet parts than our previous releases. But of course you’ll still be able to recognize some typical Andromeda elements here and there!

The label came up with the idea to do a limited edition in the form of a wooden box. I haven’t actually seen the real thing yet, but I think it looks very cool!

I feel that this is a very strong album. We’ve also made a video of the first song - Preemptive Strike. I think that will help getting attention. With our new line-up and our new label, we feel stronger than ever, and we’re very hungry to go on tour!

Hope you like our new album, and be sure to check out our facebook page for more info! See you on tour!

Thanks a lot for your time!!!