We tried to arrange, play and produce all of the songs in a way most suitable for the song. There were no intentions to press songs into a pre-planned scheme like "hard-rock", "melodic-rock" or "whatever-rock". There was a lot of work arranging, recording, listening, rearranging, rerecording, we spent quite a long time recording and mixing. Still I would not say it was difficult. We always had the feeling we could improve and when changing something was necessary we went for it.
Describing the merits of the new album in words doesn't come easy to me.
I think that's up to the listener. Hopefully people will give it a listen and decide for themselves, there's something to enjoy for fans of various kinds of rock.

We started writing and recording in November of 2006 and finished by March 2008.
2 or 3 sons were written before that time though.

The lyrics deal with a wide variety of issues. From personal songs like "Tell me how it feels", "Help me" or "The vow", to more political songs like "King of scum" and "A fool's crusade" and situations everyone sometimes experiences like " I don't wanna wait" and "Keep from falling". "Download a Dream" is about blessings and shortcomings of the internet.

I hope we improved. With all the albums the goal was to make the best possible album.
Now when your doing promo work for an album people tend to say; "this is the best album we ever did". Sure that was the goal. On the other hand I still like most of the songs of the previous albums. Naturally all the experiences of all previous albums are part of a new one.
Dream And Deliver is an effort in combining traditional values, such as songwriting, good performance and careful production, with a contemporary and powerful sound.

Now we're looking forward to the European release, working on promotion for the album. I hope by fall we'll see how touring-plans will develop.

No.

That is like asking: "which one of your children you like best and which ones you don't like at all". Impossible for me to answer. Funnily from a lot of reviews I read of the new albums, people don't seem to pick the same songs over and over again as their favourites. Some mention "I don'`t wanna wait", " "A Fools Crusade" and "King of Scum" as their favourites, some name "Same Star", "The Beat" and "The Vow" whereas as other like "Dancing when the night falls", "Download a Dream", " Tell me how it feels" and "Help Me". Yet another circle of people pick "To Everybody", "Keep from Falling" and "Download a Dream reprise". "Stronger" for example gets quite some airplay.

We hope to go on tour with the new album, but dates are not fixed yet.

Ok, this is the story about how we started to work with our new bass-player Francis: The very first day something happened which is very rare in a musicians career. I played Francis a demo of "The Vow". He said: "It's a good song, but there's something wrong in the part at the end", I asked "what?", "The way the vocal-line turns is the wrong way around" he answered. I was stunned,'cause Olaf and me had been changing that for hours and Francis immediately, without knowing the original, wanted it to be like the initial idea. Moments like that kept coming and we were in a real working situation from then on.
It was clear as daylight, we have a very similar understanding of music, working together is sheer fun and improving the music a lot. So it was only logical for Francis to take over the bass part as well as having a lot of input when it came to arranging and production.

Ok, to all the listeners of Metal Choc, if your not familiar with Dreamtide, take a listen and give it a chance, could easily be there`s something you like.