.::SCRATCHtheSurface Webzine::.: One Man Army

After almost three years in torpor, Swedes One Man Army and the Undead Quartet emerge with a new album entitled “The Dark Epic” that shows a reinvigorated group determined to make up for the lost time. Below, vocalist Johan Lindstrand fills in the details behind the making of their latest work.

So why did it take the band three years to follow up your third full-length “Grim Tales”, I understand that the departure of long time guitarist Mikael Lagerblad in early 2009 was one of the major setbacks right?

“Yeah it was. He left us back in 2009 after the last tour for ‘Grim Tales’. He was one of the main songwriters so it kinda slowed down the machine for a while. But during Mikael’s final months I wrote “Inside the head of God” and recorded it at his house ‘cause I wanted to get on with the 4th album straight away after the touring was done. But when all this happened everything was just put to rest and now when looking back at it this was the best that could happen album-wise ‘cause we had a lot of time to figure out what we wanted to do and also having a new guy in the process also took more time. But as I said, this has definitely been a winning situation in the long run for this band.”