Day Zero

We left the house at 730 to pick up friends and head to the airport. We picked up Scott then headed to the u-district to pick up Herb. After waiting 30 minutes for him to get ready I realized I left my fest tickets at home. My stepson Tony utilized the radar detector in his souped up Dodge Charger to get us there and back to the airport in record time so all was good.

I took a couple of Tylenol PM's before getting on the plane so I slept well through both flights. Everything on the trip to Baltimore was smooth and without incident except for a mechanical incident which kept us on the tarmac in Chicago for an extra 30 minutes. My mp3 player kept the crying children at bay and I stealthily vaped my nicotine continuously while I was awake.

We arrived in Baltimore at around 930 AM, spent a little time in the hotel room then headed out for lunch. We wound up at a large sports bar called “Luckie's Tavern” and had some beer, crab cake sandwiches, deep fried pickles, mini-crab cakes and more beer. Good food but the service was a little slow which was puzzling since the lunch rush was over.

Chris Slack - First off, what is the question that you are the most tired of hearing during interviews? I like to check so I can avoid asking it.

Chrigel Glanzmann – I don’t care, I really don’t care. Maybe a month ago I was like fuck, I can’t do it any longer. I mean it’s always the same when a new album is released all the interviews start and from this year from the beginning of the year until now I have had like 140 interviews about the new album. Probably something like “Can you tell me something about the recording process. A question like that which I answered 140 times. Like two months ago or something I was like oh god no,I can’t do it anymore, not one more time. But really I don’t care, there are no questions you can’t ask.

CS – Eluveitie has been doing their thing for quite some time. Over the past few years the folk metal thing has been getting a lot bigger. A lot of bands are getting together and doing a similar kind of music. What are your thoughts on that?

CG – I don’t care. To be honest I don’t think that much about it. For us in a way that good that this type of music is evolving and growing. I notice it is growing over here in the states in the last couple years.  In Europe it’s kind of exploding in countries like Germany it’s the biggest metal genre of all. Pagan metal tours are the biggest shows, much bigger than death metal or whatever. So it’s good for us, but yeah, I don’t think that much about it. I mean none of us personally listens to that kind of music. I mean we don’t know much about the whole scene or whatever.