You cover “Solitude” by Black Sabbath on the album. (Beau�fully). How do you go about choosing a track to cover? When planning what we wanted with this album, we agreed on not doing any compromises, meaning we wanted the album to “decide” what was going to be on the album and not. When seeing how it was panning out, we thought we needed a song to close the album. “Solitude” has been in the Green Carna�on sphere for a couple of years already (we were working on it for another, acous�c project), and when one of us suggested that one, we were never in doubt. Its mood and its lyrics are perfect to close this album. We could have chosen to put in one or two new songs there, but the album “decided” (and needed) this exact song. How important is it to you to perform live? I’m thinking of the concert under the dam and your performance at ProgPower USA, both of which were pre�y spectacular. It is very important, but not for any price. We are extremely ambi�ous when it comes to our live shows, and do need specific stuff to be able to convey what we want and need to do. And we are a band that like to do a bit spectacular stuff, and we are joking we are a “more is more” type of band.. haha. But, yes, we put a lot of effort into our live shows, and I think it is worth every minute of it, when hearing about people’s experiences during our concerts a�erwards. Do you think that the current world situa�on will change the way that music is performed and consumed? Yes, I am quite sure it will, but I am not sure exactly how yet. For example when doing the worldwide live stream concert in May, which was originally going to be a normal release show in Kris�ansand, Norway, I was thinking about why we hadn’t thought about streaming the concert to the en�re world in the first place. I don’t think streaming concerts will ever fully replace “the real thing”, but I hope and thing that we will bring something posi�ve out of this very challenging situa�on for the world.
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