There is a huge step between these albums. The production is more professional, heavy and clear. The songs are shorter, better arranged, more to the point and have a darker and more powerful approach. Maybe we could say that "Urkraft" was somewhat a "test" for this new album. We wanted to take a new path from the extremely key-dominated "Valdr Galga", maybe we didn't succeeded to 100%, but we certainly did on "Vansinnesvisor".

First of all, Daniel produced the album, not only mixed it. As a matter of fact, we had booked the Abyss Studio for May 2001, but eventually found out that we would never complete the material in time. After that Tommy was booked for another year, so we had to look for something else.

It's not that important, but it gives a special touch and atmosphere to the album I think. All these additional sounds and overdubs are things that you could try out and experiment with for ages, but it should be seen as a compliment to the backbone of the music; the rhythm section, guitars, and vocals.

This time we moved away a bit from our previously so obvious "heroic-viking-lyrics", the atmosphere is (just as the music) a little darker, more folkloric and foreboding. Also, we they are more personal and most of them are rooted in our views upon the world of today, but written in an "old" way concerning the language and metaphors.

I can't agree that each release is darker than it's forerunner. For example, both the demos and the debut album has a darker atmosphere than "Valdr Galga" in my opinion. I guess you could say that more or less everything that happens to the progression of Thyrfing is "natural" as everything we do comes from our inner self and minds...

It's different from track to track. Some of them were completed to 95% by a single person, and other were written in the rehearsal place, just jamming. There were never a special formula for the progress.

Well, they are documents about the musical past of Thyrfing, how we sounded back then. They will always have a nostalgic and personal value for us, eventhough we not class them as superior releases nowadays.

We will do one gig here in Stockholm together with Dismember and two more, yet unconfirmed acts. After that we will do four gigs in Benelux with Cruachan and Shadowbreed in December. That's about it.

Interview by Federico Marongiu