Coming to the Meads of Asphodel next, you released the latest Meads album Running Out of Time Doing Nothing which unlike the two previous releases, doesn’t have a singular lyrical theme running through the en�re album. What were the reasons for approaching the latest album in this way? The previous albums, Murder of Jesus the Jew, and Sonderkommando took years to research and the content had to be so precise. Both were dealing with historical founda�ons and both immersed in Jewish misery. The Jesus albummore lost in a theology swamp, and the Sonderkommando pushed into a taboo box where usually only NSBM bands use the subject for propaganda purposes. It becomes apparent when researching the two subjects how all consuming the Jewish race has affected the world. Its core religion spawning Chris�anity and Islam. Even today the Middle East boils in hatred, so nothing new then... I wanted to be free of a specific concept with the new album, to write about whatever was in my head. My Mother was dying during the final stages of the release, so it has some very deep stuff lyric wise. The album touched on the Middle East, as well as the American Indian genocide, and at �mes, lyrically dri�ing into a dreamy surreal world that I rarely explore. The newMeads shirt is a reflec�on of my sorrow. I always used to visit my father at the cemetery and sit on a bench. His grave was by a tree and nowmy mother is with him. I was with my partner one day who blurted out, ‘We are all running out of �me doing nothing’, and that struck deep inside of me, and so the album �tle was born.
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