Any live shows are scheduled? With which bands would you like to go on tour and with which bands it will be good for Hagal to tour? (not necessarily metal ones)

We have played a lot of gigs here in Hamburg and other cities in northern Germany. The bands we would like to go on tour with and the bands it would be good for us to tour with are nearly the same: Taake, Nagelfar, Einherjer, Enslaved, maybe Satyricon or Darkthrone…it have to be metal ones, you see.

On the photos inside the booklet of the cd you stand in the middle of a forest in the night, holding something in your hand. I believe it is a knife or so…Why is that? The other members also have been taken some very sophisticated photos, with no corpse paint at all. What kind of attitude you have and in which ways it is different from those of the other bands?

It is a Viking drink horn in my hand. We wanted to make pictures as natural as possible. Why should we hide ourselves behind corpsepaint or alike (like many other bands do)? We stand proudly behind our music, and we shot the photos outside in the snow because of the lyrical concept of “Karg”. We look the way we look everyday, because this music is our life, and that´s what we want to express. If a band uses corpsepaint and it fits into their lives, than it`s totally okay…but when they use this stuff, just because of their faves doing it, than it`s just embarrassing.

Do you know any new good bands we should check out?

Check out Funeral Procession from Germany, I know them and they`re great. And Nagelfar, from Germany, too. They´re gods!!!

 

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