Everything’s great. I hope you're doing great as well.

When I completed the first demo, the project didn't yet have a name. With WNTRBRNR (guitarist, from Auriel) we tried to come up with a name as soon as possible. We didn't have many names so I decided to go with Khaossos. That name started to bother me later on. It doesn't really fit my music and to be honest, it sounded stupid. I was for a long time thinking about whether or not I should change the name. Early in 2015 Moonroot Art concacted me about making the cover art for my next album. His works look wonderful so I thought he should also make the new logo for the new name, Kval (Norwegian for 'anguish').

’Kuolonkuu’ was my first release that I really liked. I felt like I had finally found the true sound of Kval. Still, there were too many things about the album that I wanted to fix. I tried to compose more detailed drum and bass parts. WNTRBRNR also recorded the guitars with a stronger and colder sound and gave the album a proper mix and mastering for the first time. Originally I had planned to make a minimal ambient track to accompany every original album track, but ended up making one only for 'Harhainen', called 'Kaiku Tyhjyydestä').

You mean ’Kval’ debut album. I really like Canadian Black Metal, maybe that’s why I decided to check out if there’s a labels in the same country interested to release some Finnish atmospheric Black Metal. I contacted to HDR, and they responded very soon Kval’s debut album sounds great and they’re interested to publish it on CD in summer, at last in autumn. In my opinion, cooperation has gone well.

I don't know. I'm currently working on new material but I've talked before with WNTRBRNR if I should re-release or re-record old demo songs or albums. Nothing is certain for now.

We've practiced as a band for a couple of times and are planning to play our first gig soon. I hope the next Kval album will be released in 2018. Hopefully everything will go as planned.

Thank you and I hope all the best for you!