Mårre: Are there any plans for a new record? Do you work on new material during the tour?
Michael: We are currently working on our upcoming album. We will start to record the album in September and it will be released early 2003.
Mårre: What are your own influences and favorites in music?
Michael: I really have a wide spectra when it comes to music. I listen to everything from the 70's Rush to today's Black and Death Metal. I can't name one special influence. You get influenced by everything you hear that you like. But a couple of favorites are Death, Pain of Salvation, Symphony X, Cannibal Corpse, Yes, Rush, Paradise Lost, Dream Theater, Ark, Testament...
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"There is a concern that the Internet could be used to commit crimes and that advanced encryption could disguise such activity. However, we do not provide the government with phone jacks outside our homes for unlimited wiretaps. Why, then, should we grant government the Orwellian capability to listen at will and in real time to our communications across the Web?""
-- JOHN ASHCROFT, as a U.S. senator, from his Aug. 12, 1997 op-ed piece in the Washington Times, "Welcoming Big Brother."
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