No New Turisas Album Until 2010

It seems as though TURISAS will not release a new album until at least 2010. Lucem Fero has issued an interview with TURISAS vocalist Mathias “Warlord” Nygård, conducted in September by Welsh interviewer Anthony Morgan. The following is an excerpt:

Obviously, TURISAS’ sophomore album The Varangian Way was issued during May 2007. Are there any plans to issue a third full length?

I think it’s going to be awhile before we issue our third album (laughs). At the moment, we’ll be touring for quite some time.20Right now, our plans are to finish this touring cycle alongside DRAGONFORCE by the summer of 2009. Following that, we’ll take a break to start focusing upon writing new songs, and subsequently entering production. From mid 2009 until the end of 2009, there’ll likely be a gap. We won’t tour much, but will focus upon writing new tracks, and cutting our third album.”

So TURISAS won’t likely release its third album until 2010?

Yeah, that sounds realistic.

Whilst on tour, have you penned lyrics or anything similar?

“In some respects, it’s a constant working process. Ideas are floating around. However, this is what happens during my average day; I wake up, have to do something, and then have to subsequently conduct an interview. I then have roughly forty-five minutes of free time , but following that, I have to do something else. My free time is so splintered out that it’s really difficult to work on material, and I can’t work in that manner. If I have fifteen minutes spare, I can’t work upon a track, and then embark upon another task. So that I can wholly focus upon writing, I need to have a longer period of time free, and can’t be disturbed much. In our case, writing tracks whilst on tour isn’t something which really works well. There’s many other tasks to be completed; I’m reading a lot, and that is building a picture within my mind.”

Read the whole interview here.

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