Hi guys! “Kamikaze Love Reducer” will be released on January 20 (my birthday), is there anything you can disclose for us about that?
JM: Happy Birthday,to you!
Well..Apart from being the best album we have done so far!?
Not much...except that we are very happy with the outcome of the record and it felt damn great to get that feeling when we heard the final result and... damn... this album rocks!

What are the differences between "Kamikaze Love Reducer" and your old works?
JM: I think that we took everything a bit "futher" this time...I mean,we never played a slow song like "When this world is dying" before or the "Irish" touch we have on "The black river song”.
It´s more Rock´n´roll this time but still in the "old" Psychopunch style! Personaly I think that this is the best album we done so far.

Mumbles: This time we managed to do 3 months work in 3 weeks!Normally it´s the other way around.
We´ve taken it a bit further production/song wise now.

"When This World Is Dying" is a song featuring a rythm which is slower than your standards. How has it been given birth and what is it about?
JM: Made it years ago,pretty drunk playing on a acoustic guitar. Then when we played in Italy 2004,we were sitting on a balcony having a few beers just jamming with the guitars and I played it to the guys.
Mumbles got so exited and said "we just have to record this one"! So,we did and it turned out fucking great!
What it is about? Well... broken hearts!

The album is produced by Pelle Seather (Hives, Pufball, ect.). How did it happen you chose him?
JM: Well..he is an old friend and we worked with him on the 3 first albums, so we know each other really good and he is a great Producer.
We also felt that it would be great to record the new album in our hometown to save a lot of stress instead on going somewhere else.

Mumbles: Pelle did our first 2 1/2 records and we didn´t have the time to travel this time,also ´cause Pelle is a good guy and very professional.

What do you want to achieve with "Kamikaze Love Reducer"?
Mumbles: Attract new fans and keep the old once happy.
JM: I agree with Mumbles! Fame and glory ;o)
But also to show everyone that we are still around and we know how to Rock!

Are you planning to shoot a video as well?
JM: Guess that is up to the recordlabel.
But we hope that there will be a video from this album sometime in the future.
Mumbles: We are,but no one else at the moment as it seems.

What character better embodies the "Kamikaze Love Reducer" concept?
Mumbles: Don´t know, Donald Duck?
JM: Hmmmm... no idea..

You have changed label, how are things going with Silverdust Records?
JM: So far everything is working out damn fine but of course who doesn´t want more!? “We want it all”!
Mumbles: Swell,they treat us just fine. Rockbands can be very difficult to work with sometimes. But we do things in mutual agreement... most of the times..

I really love your albums layouts, who’s the artist who draws them?
JM: The 4 first ones are made by a guy called Henrik Walse(He also made covers for The Hellacopters,The Nomads,Hives and so on). Then the artwork on "Smashed on arrival" and the new album "Kamikaze love reducer" is made by a great guy and friend from Germany, Timo Wuerz. And yeah,they look fucking great all of them!

You have played a lot around Europe and last July we saw you on stage with Hanoi Rocks and Fuoriuso in Venice, what are your memories of that gig?
Mumbles: Great, just great. Good wine, nice women and great people.
JM: Yeah, it was great and I agree with Mumbles on that one!
Hanoi Rocks is a great band, to bad we didn’t´have the time to talk to them that much. But it was great seeing them live again!
Fuoriuso... damn nice people and cool band.
The crew at the festival,the people... everything was great and we do hope to come back real soon.

Peppe: I was pretty tired and had a hangover that wouldn't disappear. I think the same was for the rest of the band so our performance was average at the most. If you liked our gig then you should come see us next time we're around because I can promise you we will be smashing. The experience over all was nice though. Very nice people in Fuoriuso and the crew at the festival.

What are the pros and cons of playing in Italy?
Peppe: The pros: the magnificent Italian ladies, quite possibly the most beautiful and sexy on the planet. The cons: ...There are no cons! Wohoo!
JM: So that means that we hope to come back real soon ;o) Well,you also have very nice people there,so that´s also a “pro”.

What kind of impression did you have of Hanoi Rocks, Fuoriuso and the Italian audience?
Mumbles: Everybody were alright. Fuoriuso were funny as shit but they didn´t understand my French that well-(Laughs!)!
Peppe: Hanoi Rocks was a lot more vital than I expected them to be.
Very cool to see Mike Monroe and Andy McCoy on stage together. The most impressive playing came from Conny Bloom though, his bluesy leads blew me away.
Fuoriuso looked good on stage and performed well enough but they are not exactly up my alley musicwise. They do possess the most important quality though: they were incredibly nice guys and good drinking buddies. So we would love to meet them again some time.
The Italian audience was just fabulous ;)

JM: Hanoi Rocks were fucking great and Fuoriuso were also good but as Peppe says..”not exactly up my alley musicwise” but they did what they do real great!
The audience was great... to bad there weren´t more people there to see 3 fantastic bands ;o)
Hopefully there will be more people next time around!

You have also played with Gluecifer, Turbo Acs, The Nomads, Mary Slim, ect...in the past. Have you started a friendship with some of them? Any funny episode to tell us?
Mumbles: No secrets out of me:)
JM: Yeah,we started a friendship with some of the bands but as Mumbles said... No secrets out of me either ;o)

Peppe: I wouldn't really claim that any hard core 'friendships' evolved from our contact with other bands, although most of the guys from the bands are really cool guys who knows how to have a good time. Some of the
above mentioned we keep in contact with as well as a lot of other bands, famous or unknown, alive or dead. Especially if something is going down like gigs, guest appearances or such. Of course, Maryslim always give us a call whenever they manage to scrape a gig together or if we are about to hit the road. But they usually end up not going with us.

Have you noticed any differences in the responses from the European audiences you have come across?
Peppe: The rule of thumb is the more south you go, the more wild and crazy the audience. Hence the opposite - the more north you go, the more dull the audience.
In Sweden every person in the crowd at a gig is standing in the back looking bored and stupid thinking 'my band is much better'.
In Germany people move a little bit more at the gigs, like tapping their foot if they feel really bad-ass. If they're drunk enough the also shout various cool stuff like 'Wok'N'Woll!' or 'Zumzing in ze way!'.
In France all the guys will flash their penises or buttholes (or both) the whole time, because that is the most rock'n'rollish thing you can do down there. Unfortunately very few ladies show us the same respect, although that also happens sometimes (take this as hint ladies).

In Spain... well, you know goes on in Spain don't you? People are freaking out completely due to hard abuse of various substances. One of the effects of the mentioned phenomena is that the crowds are extremely chaotic in a rather interesting and good way.
In Italy the audiences are just fabulous ;)
Of course there are exceptions to the rule of thumb. For instance Switzerland, being a country in the middle, has a dual quality to it in terms of audience behaviour; either the people stand in the corner and look scared to death or jump around like fucking maniacs while they cover themselves and everyone else in vomit.

Mumbles: Some crowds are more into it physically than others.But there are different ways of showing gratitude towards a band you know.
JM: Well... think that it depends on the city you play in.
Sometimes they just stand there and “look scared” and kind on tapping their feet and hands to the music and then the next city is totally wild and crazy!
But no matter what..after the gig the audience always want to tell us how great the show was and how much fun they had!

JM and Joey used to play with T.S.T., Peppe with Mourning Sign and Mumbles with The Wild Bunch, why did you choose to quit them and go for the Psychopunch? ...How was Psychopunch born?
JM: Well, me and Joey split up T.S.T because it was time to move on musicwise and everyone started in new bands after T.S.T,like Dynamite Wasteland and Grimjacks..but after a while Joey and me decided that it was time to get together again.
We were pretty drunk sitting at my place watching NHL on the TV and got this great idea..!
We have to start a band again..then Mumbles and the drummer from The Wild Bunch asked Joey if he knew some dudes that wanted to start a band.
So, we decided to give it a try and it worked out damn fine!
The first drummer quit the band after we recorded the 2nd album and Peppe joined us and we become an even more leathal band than ever!

Mumbles: I quitted Wild Bunch´cause people were more busy doing something else. I need things to move forward,I just can´t fuck around and watch nothing happen when it comes to music.
Peppe: We ended Mourning Sign because we couldn't agree what musical direction we would go. Also there was a lot of bad attitudes within the band. It's actually a shame we didn't continue with Mourning Sign. We were probably the best band around in that time and genre and had we continued we would have been destined for great things. The face of music as you know it would have been different.

Peppe, what did you do in a death metal band???
Peppe: I was playing fucking death metal man, what did you think? I was always into hard rock and dark stuff. When music evolved to become harder, so did I. First I was completely floored when I discovered thrash metal
and hard core. A few years later 'Scum', 'Reek of putrefaction' and 'Altars of madness' was released and I fell in love.
A few more years later I discovered 'The White Album'... but that's a completely different story.

How would you judge the Swedish rock scene? Are there good venues to play at?
Peppe: Touring in Sweden is complete shit until you reach a pretty high level of success. There are very few real rockclubs and rockbandsized venues. The rock scene is good though. A lot of good bands come from Sweden, but I guess you already know that.
JM: Agree with Peppe, also with the facts that a lot of good bands come from Sweden, but it´s very hard finding good clubs for bands to play in if you are not really well known and that´s to bad!

Mumbles: Sweden is not the musical eldorado that people think. There are good venues if you´re huge.
There are some really good bands showing up now and then but sadly only a few stick around for more that a short number of years.
People seem to think they have to become big stars,otherwise you are not allowed to continue. Sad, isn´t it!

Any good Swedish breakthrough artists to let SLAM! know about?
JM: Yeah,the “leftovers” from Puffball will start a new band and I bet they will kick major ass!
Peppe: No. Yeah one - MARYSLIM! THEY FUCKING RULE!
Mumbles: Try the Hellbillyboys. I hope their lucky star will shine on them in the future.

That’s all the last lines are for you....
Mumbles: Hello all you innocent readers-Go out and by the new record and force your grandmother to do the same.
See you in Italy!!-Mumbles
Peppe: Watch out for herpes kids! It stings like a bitch, lemme tell ya.
JM: Watch out for the new album “Kamikaze love reducer”, listen to it, love it and buy it!
Hope to be back in Italy soon again!