Why have you decided to include a lyrical track on the instrumental album? Hardrock Haven: In the bonus track “Fingerspitzengefühl,” we hear you singing lead vocals – not for the first time throughout your career, as you sang also in Winterlong for example. I think this guy’s a genius and did a wonderful job! I wake up with the guys in the band more often than with my girlfriend, sadly enough, so it’s been easy to give feedback and have a close dialogue while on tour. Thobbe: We’ve been working close on the art work. Hardrock Haven: The cover artwork of From The Wilderness was designed by your Sabaton bandmate Chris Rörland.
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Since we are two guitar players, there is a 50% focus on each, guitar wise, and we’re five guys in the band plus keyboards and producer, which actually gives everyone 1/7 of room in the mix, and as a guitar player you’d wanna harmonize well with the other guitar, which in turn makes you less free to improvise or do crazy stuff. When we’re in the studio with Sabaton it’s a completely different story. But I love to work with others! It’s totally depending on the purpose. I guess because it’s been a long time since I put out an album there’s lots of inspiration. I mean, sometimes magic happens and then you just wanna go with it, which happened a lot during the making of this album. That is sometimes like opening up a door, letting the music build itself. That means I need, or at least prefer, to be alone and have peace and quiet. When I am focusing on my own guitar playing, there has to be certain spirits in the air to let the music flow from my heart.
Do you prefer to work on your own, independently from other musicians, producers and sound engineers? Hardrock Haven: Instead of hiring someone from the outside, you’ve also produced and mixed the album. The song ”Varg,” mentioned before, has a special place in my heart though. Thobbe: Personally I like ”A Lonely Hunter” and also ”Surviving.” The latter which kind of feels very genuine when it comes to my playing style.
Hardrock Haven: What are your personal highlights of the album? Also, I come from the north of Sweden, a small village where the wilderness is right in your back yard, so this theme is something that felt very natural to work with. This song came to represent the concept of the album, and worked as inspiration when me and Chris we’re working through ideas concerning the art work. I re-arranged it a bit, and re-produced the song, called ”Vargens Öde,” the last track on the album before the bonus track (on my You Tube channel simply called ”Varg”). Thobbe: I would say that besides from the obvious focus on guitar playing and shredding, I had a very bombastic and beautiful song that I put out on YouTube, on my channel, a long time ago which actually came to represent the album. Hardrock Haven: What’s inspired the music on the new album? Guessing from the song titles, From The Wilderness can be interpreted as a concept instrumental album of sorts – was there any general idea behind it? This album was focusing on guitar playing from the beginning, and I had a clear vision of what I was going to do. From The Wilderness though is something different. Material that had been evolving under a long time, and eventually I decided to get it out. That album was a composition of many different styles, and stuff that I didn’t find suitable for Winterlong. Influences was more of a mixture of material I had lying around. Winterlong, my previous band which I released five albums with was actually my solo project as well, from the second album forward. Thobbe: Hi Alexandra! Nice to hear from you! First of all, what many might have missed is the fact that Influences wasn’t more of a solo album than the albums before that. Is there any difference between this record and its predecessor, 2006’s Influences? Hardrock Haven: Your second solo album From The Wilderness has just seen the light of day. Hardrock Haven managed to catch up with Thobbe to discuss the album and his current tenure in Sabaton as well as look both back and forward a little bit. A year later, the band’s current guitarist Thorbjörn Englund went solo with an instrumental album From The Wilderness.
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