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Mr try what went down in your head the stars are in the sh listen to them to them Children of the Night Children of the Night what music Martinson Global glal hello hello Eric how are you I’m good how are you everything is good how is Sweden it’s great summer it’s it’s not as warm as where you are but it’s still pretty good well that’s good yeah in Portugal it’s quite warm to be honest too warm we were in Cordoba in Spain last last weekend and it was I think it was almost 40 degrees crazy even for us that live here you know we are used to the heat sometimes it’s just too much you know yeah there’s no escaping no anyway and before we talk about the new record from Eclipse you guys played Portugal for the first time last year at the mum T Festival how did it go that first show here in Portugal it was it was great um it was well we had a good time uh we I think we need to build the audience a bit more people were like ah who are these guys but I think you know we we should we need to play there much more than we do yeah it was a great show you know I was there and and uh you know it was nice to finally see you guys play here and then actually there was some people that knew the songs anyway so that’s a good sign it’s good yeah yeah we we always play Spain but we never play Portugal which is is strange but you know it’s I don’t know why I I don’t know the reason why but somehow Spain always want to book shows with the clips but Portugal not so much yeah I think it has to do more with the promoters I think it’s the promoters here are either old schooled or old yeah you know when it comes to you know I don’t know it’s it’s hard but they don’t like to take chances you know some of them and those who like to take chances they cannot afford sometimes to bring you know good bands and proper bands so uh you know it’s a bit it is hard being a promoter you can win you can you can earn a lot of money but it’s also very easy to lose a lot of money yeah and that’s something people don’t understand you know because they just say I want this band to play here and but where is the money for that anyway yeah and especially nowadays when people buy tickets so late for festivals and shows they buy like the last week they buy the tickets in Portugal which means that a lot of festivals are closing and though they have to cancel even before before it happens yeah in Portugal we actually for a long time we had the habit of buying tickets on the day you know because it’s I think it’s something to do more with the 80s 90s where you know some shows were cancelled because people because people didn’t understand that if you don’t have enough ticket sales you know the show is to be cancelled and that happened a lot in Portugal so people just decided to I’ll wait for the last couple days to buy a ticket so yeah they tried to avoid the problem but they they they create the problem yeah exactly and you know megal manum 2 uh when did you guys start working on the songs for the for the album because the first one was you know as good as it gets I mean you guys when it comes to making music you’re probably one of the best on the very much well we we we did both we did all the songs uh we had all the songs written uh and uh we split them in two in two we were sitting in a bar in Sydney at an Australian tour and Victor Magnus and myself we were sitting there having a beer just made two running orders of the songs like let’s put four singles on the first one four singles on the second one and then we just you know fill it up and um and and the funny thing this the singles not all the singles turned out to be singles other songs that we we didn’t you know in the demo stage turned out to be singles instead it was it was funny but we so we had all the songs and we wanted to make a double record because it was just such such a stupid idea to make a double record uh I I at a party at my house I was putting on some music some CD and I pulled out Smashing Pumpkins um uh Melancholy and infinite sadness it’s a double record right and I thought why no one do double records anymore they did in the ’90s and they did in the 70s so let’s be stupid and make a double record but instead of releasing it at the same time we knew that that’s going to be commercial suicide so uh let’s split in like a year apart yeah but they they are recorded and they are written at the same time so it’s it’s they are from the same period okay so you already had so it was a very productive uh songwriting for the first you know the first album now that’s two records so you guys were very productive when it came to writing songs because if you had a double record ready and we had like 30 songs it’s crazy it was a we had so many good songs we like how can we even choose which songs is going to be on record like and and and I know for a fact that if you if you don’t release if you write songs and you don’t release them you never I personally I never go back and revisit songs very very rarely that happens it only happened once we did that uh for anthem on the previous record that was that song was written for the the album wired but we never I never liked the demo so we we kind of okay let’s skip this one but then we Revisited at um Meg they are the number one and well it turned out well so yeah it’s always fresh ideas for you when you start working always fresh yeah always fresh ideas why so it’s I don’t know why but it’s just if you don’t do something with it if you don’t record it you kind of lose interest in it because you you as you are moving you are moving you always how you want to write music and and and and make songs changes all the time I don’t want to make the same songs as we did 10 years ago I I would I have no interest in writing those no exact kind of songs because it’s already been written so it’s I always move along so if it’s if you have a it’s never happens that I would record like a three four fiveyear old song never happens so so you never keep like uh or or do you keep like a a backlog of riffs some Melodies um do you keep keep those or you prefer start you know from scratch if it’s a good idea let’s work on it if it’s not a good idea throw it in a bin yeah yeah yeah yeah kind of the last situation I throw it in the bin and just move along and uh I think that’s keeping it it that keeping it’s always keeping it interesting and but I have a in my phone I have all these you know riffs and small ideas that I sometimes put together sometimes but I rarely even look at that I had a I had a a phone fil I must have had a hundreds of song song ideas in that one and I I was driving a go-kart and I had it in my pocket and I completely destroyed the phone so all those ideas are completely gone so there are hundreds of songs that I have no idea what it is but it’s they are they are gone so you you backup so you could have had you know the greatest riff ever and the greatest Melody ever and it’s gone it it was it was destroyed in a rental go-kart but then I got a new phone and then I I put on like safety copy on on the memos because I was like ah don’t bother I didn’t bother on the previous one I kind of regret it does it you know when it comes to Melodies and Rifts they can happen anywhere any time of the day or do you prefer to have like a specific time to put you know ideas together I usually usually it’s like office hours writing because you know it’s it’s life it’s so much things to do so I I need to S sit down be focused just right but I you know sometimes I think sometime I just pick up the guitar in my in my living room yes you know having some morning coffee and yes and it’s all of a sudden this great idea comes comes along but I said a lot of it is just sitting down working trying to write a good song does it take time I don’t sit wait I don’t sit and wait for inspiration with red wine and and candles does anyone get inspired by red wine and candles anyway I don’t know I think that’s the when people think about writing music I think that’s what people imagine it’s going to be like but real life is it’s it’s it’s it’s a lot of hours writing very bad songs and then all of a sudden something good comes along sometimes you can spend a week and there’s like zero good songs and sometimes you write two great songs in one day and I don’t know why and I think that’s the beauty of it yeah and you know for these records you know you write you wrote the songs at the same time do you remember which one which song was the quickest to you know get done you when you got the idea and finish recording and the and the opposite and the longest one that you almost gave up or something yeah well definitely on the first record that’s Anthem as we wrote that already for Wired and we we we spent a lot of hours getting that right and uh on the new one um let me see the running order of it and I I I will I will let you know well it’s good that you can that you can remember that you know yeah I can remember but I just there’s a lot of songs right but all these like falling to my knees I wrote that having in my sofa in the living room just writing sitting down having coffee in the morning I wrote that song like instant and it sounded like um it it was not a hard rock song it sounded more like a Ryan Adams not Brian Adams Ryan Adams song it was more like a singer songwriter song and it’s but I really liked it and I then I went later that day I woke up in the studio and I did like a hard rock version of it and it was like this is fun it was a fun song so that was a very quick one and there you know I think a lot of these songs are quick songs uh I think the best songs always comes very easily yeah when you struggle with a song and then you you know you you can you can spend a lot of hours on like production or like fixing Minor Details but the the the basic like the the skeleton of the the basics of the song should be found quite easily cuz when you’re really if you’re trying too hard then you know it’s not right yeah it’s you got to have flow so I’d say most of these songs were written in flow yeah and you know the ones the ones who didn’t have flow they are not on the record well it makes sense yeah is it you know on the song I mean you guys are like you in Sweden you guys are perfect when it comes to Melodies you know I don’t know like a Swedish band even black metal bands they are good making music in Sweden but when you write is the melody the most important part of the song because a Melody can work in a heavy heavy song song in an acoustic one in electronic music is Melody key in the song when you write for me for me absolutely the melody and and the rhythm of the melody and the melody is what drives the song you know without that there’s there’s just guitars and and and like even if you have the greatest guitari of all time if you don’t have a great if you don’t have a it’s got to be a song as well so you know there’s so many songs we’ve had with great Rifts but we can never make it into a proper good song cuz it’s it turns out boring cuz but even you know even with this simplest production if you have a good Melody with good Rhythm it’s done you know you then you have everything yeah yeah so so I’d say yeah the of course we love you know guitar Rifts and all that stuff but it’s you know without the the melodist there’s I don’t think you have anything yeah and you know it sounds like an American band they always have this there’s so much like not every American band but they have all these like it’s so yeah yeah everything is so awesome and cool and and they just overdo it with like power overdo it but it’s like there’s no substance to it you know personally I get bored with it instantly yeah but I think there is a you know a difference to the European style of let’s say rock to the American style I I think I think we Europeans and I’m not saying that all american band are like that but I think we appreciate a lot Melody but like in the US I don’t know what it is it’s you know sometimes I you know I can give me any Swedish band any time of the day and they’ll write a great song and something that really stickes in your head like the American bands it’s just one of those that you’re listen yeah it’s a good song but it’s forgettable you know it’s not memorable it’s it’s a lot of production smoking mirrors yeah yeah I I I I I really think think but of course that not all American bands of course there there are a lot of Great American bands and there’s a lot of [ __ ] European bands as well so both have the everything right yeah I’m not saying that all European bands are great because there are some really bad ones out there yeah exactly and you know you you’re very prolific songwriter and you write for you know just not just Eclipse but to you have other projects and sometimes you write for other artists when sometimes you when they ask you to write a song and you present a song and they decide to change something does that hurt you no not at all usually when people make changes even if it’s if I’m I’m I I work as almost a full-time mixer I mix records all the time and I think all the time when people have ideas it’s usually a good one most people have that especially good bands they have good good bands have good ideas and uh sometimes you know and sometimes it just put the worse and it’s like oh no don’t do that but you in the situations I’ve been I think most people have they they like take it for what it is and they yeah they of course they do their own thing you know it’s the same thing with when they Ronnie Atkins with Nordic Union the the project I have with him and and what you know Jeff do his own twist of my melodist and the thing and they make it their own and I think that’s that’s that’s how it should be yeah and uh you know you talking about being a mixer mixing records um you know we are in the digital era where you know you get plugins that emulate anything like the old school you know classics whatever compressors and effects um are you very much of a digital guy or I see you have like the Marshall amps there behind you so you must like some proper Hardware stuff how how do you how do you like the B mixing is the mixing is 100% digital no I don’t do any I only do the analog thing going in but the rest is I do all the all the plugins only plugins and I think it sounds great and it’s uh I think that if it’s really hard to work on like old mixing desks now they cost a lot they’re very expensive to run they always break down and uh and people want to make you know as people are are they they they with everything they digital you can just make small changes all the time like like if you mixing complete analog it’s like this is how the mix turned out and there like ah can I have a half DB of more vocals no we can’t because the mix is done and you can’t you can’t go back and and like fix those small things so people had to leave it for what it is now everyone want to change like can you make the third Tom hit in the second fill into the chorus a bit louder it’s like yes like stupid things so which which has no relevance to the music at all but they want to make all these every every want to make all these minor changes which as a mixer drives me insane as well but because everyone is listening to their own instrument all the time but that’s another story yeah so short long long answer but it’s a I go I’m digital so oh here’s here’s here’s the nice mixing desk and yeah the computers and the monitor I don’t know some big gun over there over there cool that’s nice I’m in the studio right now do do you have a a goto Plugin or or a brand that you you know I see waves you know there’s a lot of um you know people using waves but like FB filter as well as some some very nice plugins you ever go to a brand or specific plug-in that you like to use in every mix that you do I I I always mix most of the mixing is done with waves um SSL the newest SSL strip that’s said 80% of all the EQ is done with that but I have everything I have universal audio and have I use Fab filter Pro Q3 all the time love that one I use that for mixing and mastering and I use it for I I I have shitloads of plugins but I only use a few because I I like it like it’s you know you know you know what to do with I I go for I have like these are the reverbs I use and I you know if if I want a room Reverb I just go for I have one and sometimes and that usually works and if you don’t I have always had like the same effects set up all the time which makes it you know it’s it’s fast and it’s easy I know how it sounds and I it’s you know even if I I can try out eight different delays but it will you know it will still be just a delay right instead of spending time on finding new stuff all the time it’s better to go with what works yeah and and with a live and playing live do you go digital as well is it easier to you know we see the camper stuff that a lot of bands use these days to create their or to emulate their sound in the studio with the patches and stuff um what is your go-to live gear normally we go digital yeah we are digital now we we did that we moved early 2020 we we stopped using amps but in the studio it’s always amps every single sound is amps uh I think that’s it sounds better it gives more it’s gives it more identity I you know I I I send my amps for modifications and I’m really picky with guitar sounds and stuff but it live it’s when you go especially when you play festivals when you not on your own tour it’s it’s it’s very hard to find a good sounding amp and you have to mic it there’s no time for it so it’s it’s better to go with you know live people got to be happy if they can hear the guitar at all sometime you know how many how many times have you gone to concert you can’t hear the guitars you can’t hear the guitar solos or anything it’s better to go with something simple make it work make people hear what’s actually played you know I I remember going to ven back in the day we’re talking about 2000 2001 or 2002 and I remember seeing Royal hunt play there with John West and um you know I couldn’t hear the voice of John for most of the show they didn’t play that long and it was was one of those experiences that I was like yeah it ruined from me you know I love the band so much and not being able to hear his voice especially John W voice you know it was heartbreaking yeah it is it is U you know it’s been same as you we’ve seen so many concert with so shitty sound and how many guitar solos you know guitarist is playing a solo and you’ve never heard a note it’s just it’s just drums and and Noise all the time so we go we we with the clips we go for very simple setup you know we have the you know the Helix line six Helix Stomps yeah very simple it’s easy traveling we can bring it as a carry-on luggage which means we will never lose we will always have our sound and it sounds the same every night cool what was the miking guar amp you know if you move the microphone 1 cm or to the side it sound completely different it’s every like eh so many details with this is just a cable in here’s your studio guitar sound right now and especially if you’re a perfectionist if you like you know if you know the sound if you know your sound if something is out of place that must really piss you off yeah yeah there are so many things that can go wrong so this is easier but it’s a well I’m not I’m not a perfe perfectionist live at all it’s like I just want need I I I want as little technical problems as possible it’s more more of that but it’s like playing guitar I never I like never sit down playing guitar with my live sound I always play guitar through ABS you know it’s it’s it sounds right but it doesn’t feel right it’s more it’s more like a I always play with abs when I’m home did you when you played live what was the you know the worst festival live show that ever happened to you where if anything could go wrong everything did go wrong that day or night did it ever happen like a really bad show yeah we’ve had really not completely bad shows but I remember back in we had backing tracks uh for keyboards and intros back in this must been 2008 and it was so hot it was a festival in Sweden it was the hottest day of the year and we had we had the backing tracks from an iPad and the iPad just before went we went on stage it says termal failure and we never we never rehearsed for the eventual that like the the intros wouldn’t work so we’re like how do we even start the songs that was a good lesson like now know you know if if there’s something wrong with the int machine and stuff like okay we just start a song like this now we know how to do it but back then we had no clues we like we everyone just looking at each other like what the [ __ ] do we do know you know I remember there was you know a band that I work with and um they they had the intro on the iPod but the iPod just didn’t work you know the whatever happened and you know this is was 30 seconds before the band was due on stage so they’re like what we do what we do and we’re like just go [ __ ] old school you know you know just start playing something and go for the song and that’s what happened you know they they realized that it’s the intro is not going to play so let’s go you know old school yeah that well it happens all the time and there you know sometimes there’s like with the guitars with the Wireless Systems just stop working someone at a festival someone put on another system and it’s the same frequency and there’s a jam and it’s like it’s like it’s just go with it it’s just it is what it is it’s just music and yeah and with the ALB one coming out in September uh touring plans what are you guys going much on the road for these record as well we are starting with a starting going to be a European tour especially Germany in September well this Festival the whole summer but then there’s going to be a tour in September then we go into America and then we’re going uh for another run in December it’s going to be at four dates in Spain as as as far as I know there’s no date for Portugal yet but there’s more coming even next year so there the year is more or less fully booked that’s yeah which is is really good and um yeah and we continue next year very good we we will not release a record for a long time we released two records in in one in one year so it’s well it’s it’s it’s old school you know I back in the day back in the 880s that’s what bands did they release an album every year but obviously it’s different circumstances now anyway so um you know back then they had to do that and the other projects you know you mentioned Nordic Union wet um is there anything on the can for those projects or something that yeah wet wet is already a whole album is already done and recorded it’s completed I think it was completed already in March but because of the eclipse releases we had to postpone it to I think it’s going to be end of February okay yeah but it’s um and I know it’s easy to say the latest album is the best but it’s been some time now and I think the wet record is probably the best wet record so far I really like it it’s I really enjoy listening to it it’s more rock and roll it’s more rock than usually it’s cool it’s cool cool I’m looking forward to hear it Eric thank you very much for your time all the best for eclipse and all the other projects as I said at the beginning you know you probably are one of the best when it comes to write songs and proper Melodies you know I absolutely love listening to your records so I’m looking forward for this one and whatever brings next from you I’ll be listening thank you very much thank you very much have a great day and I hope to see you soon all right thank you all the best thank you so much by bye ER face Children of the Night he will live through the centuries to come and I have left good night night