Usually the more we suffered during the making of the album, or writing it and the better gut feeling - the better it usually turns out. Which means: I'm really tired of the album! (laughs) But, I have a good gut feeling about it. JOAKIM: Yeah, there are several, I have a good feeling about it! But, you know, having been there from the songwriting process to all of the recordings.I'm sort of the musical director in the band, so I'm there for every second of everything. From that point, the songwriting was pretty hard.but fun though! As we moved into the recording process, it was probably the smoothest recording ever done! It's getting harder and harder! I guess this goes for any musician in any band who has done more than three albums. So it's pretty easy to forget that the popular tracks or tracks that we liked that turned out good that we have in our catalogue that we're playing live.we're comparing this one album, or this one song against all of those together. It's being compared to our greatest hits and everything that we've done before.

So, there's always a whole bunch of performance anxiety for us, and especially when we're comparing every song that's written, we're thinking: ' s this good?'.

And! Some of the songs that I didn't really think turned out that well might be someone else's favourite song. Intellectually, however, I realise that's impossible because: we're humans! Some songs are gonna be better than the others. JOAKIM: Hmm, how should I say 's always a bitch to write an album because emotionally you really want every Sabaton song, every single one to be the best one we ever did.

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