Page 18 - Metal Hammer Issue 334 - UK (May 2020)

DELAIN

Delain are loving “I DON’T KNOW
life on Napalm
WHAT DAY IT

IS ON TOUR”

be just a project. Now we’re 15 years later and
Delain have grown so much. If I could go back,
I’d tell myself, ‘Hey dude, this is going to be the
next 15 years of your life at least so go all in, this
is the real deal!’ There’s so many crossroads in
life and you’re always going for the long-term
thing but one day you wake up and it’s such
a big part of your life and it’s amazing.”

FIND A LABEL THAT LOVES YOU
FOR YOU
“When Roadrunner Records were sold and we
were at Warner all of a sudden, Warner got a lot
of bands alongside all the bands they actually
wanted out of Roadrunner like Nickelback and
such. I had the idea they were like, ‘OK, we
have Delain, let’s see what we can make of it so
people will buy it.’ They were looking into what
we could become, which was very different
from our own vision. When we were talking
with Napalm Records, it was a night and day
difference to that because they wanted to work
with us for us, for what we already were. Of
course we have our disagreements from time to
time, but we really noticed what it was like to be
with a label with all the best intentions for us.”

TOURING LIFE ISN’T ALWAYS EASY
“You become a family of sorts when you spend
so much time together on a bus, and everyone
develops their own little habits to keep
themselves sane. Touring can be loads of fun
and it usually is, but it’s also very tiring at
times. One of my things is I don’t really sleep
well when the bus is driving, so at the
beginning of the tour I’m usually alright but
a few weeks on, I don’t know what day or time
it is. It gets really weird but everybody has their
own routines and it’s just a matter of giving
each other the space to do what you need to do.
In the end, it all comes together during those
hours on the stage. There’s always days off
where we go on hikes to nature parks. There’s
not a lot of them but we always try to do it.”

OUR NEW SONGS MIGHT
SURPRISE YOU
“One Second is going down so well live already,
I really like singing with Timo and it’s great
being able to do that song together, I’m so
happy to have that little duet. Combustion is
really nice for me because I finally get a break!
I think Let’s Dance will become a favourite,
it’s kind of a party song and it gets people
moving very quickly even though they’ve
never heard the song before. It gives off a vibe
that people can automatically roll with and
it’s very nice to still get that kind of energy
back from the audience.”

APOCALYPSE & CHILL IS OUT NOW
VIA NAPALM PRESS