Curated By Loredana ‘Louie’ Garra
SEVEN THORNS are:
Mads Mølbæk - bass
Björn Asking – vocal
Lars Borup - drums
Gabriel Tuxen – guitar
Asger W. Nielsen – keys
Hello Lars! Hello Seven Thorns all!! Welcome on Spread
The Darkness. Let’s go with the interview!
Lars: Hello to you and all your readers 😊
1. On April 1st you updated your Facebook page
(👉 https://www.facebook.com/seventhornsofficial)
with an announcement about the new album. Will it be "Pure Power
Metal" or will you surprise us with... something completely different?
What can you anticipate?
Mads: We have moved from back in time to forward in time.
Where Symphony of Shadows had an overall vampire theme the new album will take
you to the future. We have tried to play with moods and sounds and add it to
power metal. You can expect classical uptempo power metal songs, midtempo
songs, heavy songs all spiced up with futuristic sounds to create the right
atmosphere and mood.
2. Your latest album “Symphony of Shadows” was out in 2018
via Mighty Music… I would like to know who were the Seven Thorns back then and
what are they like today?
Lars: Corona has taken it’s toll on the band. Right now we
are trying to re-organize the band and get back to the time before [corona].
The upcoming tour with Serious Black and Magical Heart will help us gat back in
the right mindset again.
3. You have played in numerous concerts and festivals, including
the prestigious CopenHell, and have shared stages with bands such as Primal
Fear and Freedom Call. What anecdote or fun fact can you tell us? Are there any
special moments that you remember with particular emotion?
Mads: What happens on tour stays on tour 😀
There has been
really many highs. Playing Maelstrom Festival (the biggest metal festival in
Sri Lanka) in 2015 and then a few days later playing festival in Stavanger,
Norway. From tropical climate to cold in less than a week.
Lars: I think that having played shows and festivals with
some of the bands that I was fan of when I was a teenager has been a huge
highlight for me. And playing on some of the big European venues and visiting
cities where I most likely wouldn’t go to, if I wasn’t playing a show there.
But we have been part of a lot of really great things because of the music.
4. At the moment, you have a show scheduled in July @ Rock
das Ding festival and a tour in December 2022 w/Serious Black. How do you feel
about playing live again after over two years?
Mads: It is almost three years since our last show on the
tour with Freedom Call. It will be so relieving to come out again. And Rock Das
Ding festival was really great – meeting old friends getting back on the stage
and just deliver power metal. The last almost three years has been really hard.
5. I really appreciate the "Symphony of Shadows"
clip and the reference to classic horror iconography. How did the idea of
combining the visual and the meaning come about?
Our text writer “Dr. P” is responsible for all the words in
the songs on the album. Terkel Christensen (our video maker) did a really great
job making the lyric video. We told him we wanted a lyric video on speed – a
video that expands the lyric video theme and we think he did exactly that. The
lyrics for the song (Symphony of Shadows) has a double meaning and the video
points it out very nicely – especially when the letter “h” evaporates from the
word “chord”. Read the lyrics and enjoy the wordplay.
6. Let's take a step back in time: 1998, the genesis of the
band. How did it happen?
Lars: I had just finished playing in a hard rock band and I
have had a dream for a decade about playing power metal – Helloween style, so I
thought “now is the time”. So I talked to a friend of mine who played guitar
then and we started Seven Thorns. Then nothing happened for 5 years and he had
already quit after the first year. I paused the band when he left and joined
another hard rock band so I could come out and play some shows but eventually I
found that the ambitions of that band didn’t match mine and re-started Seven
Thorns. And this time I was lucky and found Jesper (guitar) and Mik (vocals,
composer).
7. And after this blast from the past, how do the Seven
Thorns see themselves in the future (another 24 years)?
Lars: We will release our new album soon, continue touring,
play shows and festivals, make a new album and go new places and so on – just
the way we love it. And eventually, in 24 years, we will be touring retirement
homes across Europe in our wheel chairs.
Thank you, guys! And, as usual, hope to see you soon
playing in Italy!!
Thank you and we are looking so much forward to playing in
Italy and we hope to get it on tour program in 2023.
Metal is Your Destiny! (cit.)