In this album there are many different Rock & Metal influences, but I believe that we still have our own personal touch and style we acquired throug time. 6/Who is composing the most? You have different parts from different music genres... Nacho: Most of the music is composed by Jose and Dani, since they are aside from great musicians, fabulous producers, although it´s also true that the rest of the band had great importance in the making of the album. 7/Have you thought of changing band’s name? Jose: Yes, of course we thought about it, but this is the name we started out with and we believe we have good past. It´s true that when we started out LOTR wasn´t so mainstream, now as everybody hears the name they automatically relate to a famous band. We believe Arwen must go on and we will work hard for it to happen. 8/Did you use old ompositions or you made the mall for that album? Jose: Yes, there is one song that was intended for “Illusions” but was not recorded since our lead Singer at the time did not want to record it, but that song has changed a lot throug the years. The rest are all new songs. 9/Who did this amazing cover artwork? Have you had input? Dani: The album cover was made by a great artist called Nekro (http://www.nekro.es/). With some very vague ideas he was able to produce an idea we really liked and are very happy with the result. 10/Can you explain the album title? Is there a special theme with the songs? Nacho: This album is the expression of all we had inside and wanted to show, some how all we had in our “souls” and also it´s related to some of the song´s concepts as personal reflections, intímate feelings or judgements we make of different situations. 11/You have a video, who directed it? Is it helping selling the album? Dani: Soon we will be launching a lyric video to help the CD launch, and a few month later we will release the official video as next single. 12/What is the scene like in Spain? Do you prefer playing abroad? Jose: The scene in Spain is as in every other country, very difficult right now. If you add the fact the band´s lyrics are in English, that makes it more difficult here in Spain as the audience prefers lyrics in their own language. The truth is, we never had a specific target, and since our begining we tried to open up to licencing out of Spain, towards Japan, Russia, USA, Mexico and Europe, and we will continue trying to work in that direction. 13/Your music is composed of several styles, does it help getting live shows with different bands? Are they ones you’d love to play with? Nacho: Even though the album styling is pretty wide, and could work with many other kinds of bands, it´s really too soon to know if this is an advantage or an added difficulty. As for the bands we would like to share the stage with, I belive any of us could say they would love to share the stage with many different bands like for example : Alterbrigde, Devin Townsend, Kamelot, Angra, symphony X, Ayreon…. 14/Is there a country where you have the biggest fan base? Jose: according to some real data we have, our biggest listener pool comes from Spain, Mexico and USA. After that comes Europe and Japan. 15/Are you involved in other bands? Do you guest in albums?
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