Can you tell us a bit more about the recording process for this record, like who was it done with and where was it done? Well Matt and I booked a studio in Cardiff at The Atrium University and got our friend Ginger involved who engineered it and recorded it. Basically we didn't have any songs planned really, we went in and said okay let's try and write a song a day. Myself and Matt jammed and then formed a song, and by the end of the day I put the drums down and we carried on doing that for eleven days. So basically we had all the drums done in eleven days, as well as all of the songs written and then Matt recorded the bass and guitars in four days, and then we got Liam in to do the vocals, we got all of his vocals done with Matt in just five days. It wasn't recorded on a huge budget, it was done quite modestly, but we obviously wanted to put our musicianship into it, and make the playing as good as possible, whilst also being as real as possible.
What are the main themes and influences that run through your latest record 'Vultures' ? Well I can't really say because there's no sort of influences that we really drew upon that we purposely put in there, it was generally just stuff that I guess came out naturally. We're both Pantera fans and Slipknot fans and Liam’s vocals have sort of got a rage against the machine punky tone to them. But yeah I think the thread that runs through the album has got a sort of spirit of rock 'n' roll metal. We don't take ourselves ultra seriously and we just do what we love. No one worships the devil in this band, I mean, we just laugh at the devil and sing about him occassionally...
What does the future have in store for Axewound? We're off to the states at the end of November for a few weeks, and then well that's obviously the end of 2012. Hopefully the world will still be around by the end of the year and then after that we're definitely going to be doing some more touring next year. Its going to be more difficult because Bullet and Cancer Bats will be more active obviously, but you know we have an album out, which we want to promote and it has an international release so we will be venturing into other corners of the planet to show people our Axewound sound.