KAMELOT Guitarist: 'We Have Really Young And Crazy Fans'

July 24, 2007

Sea of Tranquility recently conducted an interview with KAMELOT guitarist Thomas Youngblood. An excerpt from the chat follows:

Sea of Tranquility: "Ghost Opera" has come out fairly soon after "The Black Halo" and "One Cold Winter's Night" — with such high praise for both of those releases, how hard was it to come up with fresh, exciting material that could equal or better the standards set by "The Black Halo"?

Thomas: It's been over two years since "The Black Halo", so in our mind it was really later than we wanted. The DVD came out but this was not new material, so we were ready and so was the record company to release a new album. There was no pressure on our side.

Sea of Tranquility: Can you talk a little bit about the new CD, and the concept, both lyrically and musically, behind these new songs?

Thomas: Everything from current events in politics and religion to our touring and visiting cultures around the world. On "Ghost Opera", we used these events for the album as well as some historical references, like in "Blücher".

Sea of Tranquility: The band has been pretty busy touring, especially here in the U.S., over the last year or two. Have audiences really started opening up to the band in recent years, warranting repeated visits, especially here in the U.S.?

Thomas: It's pretty awesome, actually. We are playing the same countries 2-3 times on the same album. The reason we can do this is we bring a new set and show everytime as well as a new growth of fans in between each visit emerges. We hope that we give a show that makes fans want to see us as soon as possible.

Sea of Tranquility: Power metal has seen a strong resurgence recently — what do you think is the reason for this?

Thomas: Not sure, I think its not only power metal but gothic, prog etc… anything not metalcore. We have really young and crazy fans mixed with 30-plus fans. So at least in the States music is becoming similar to Europe in the past years. Very open-minded.

Read the entire interview at Sea of Tranquility.

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