(taken from www.gorgoroth.info)

12/04/2008 -
New Line-up completed

Infernus' Gorgoroth line-up is now complete, and the new vocalist is none other than the legendary Pest - back at last after an 11 year hiatus from the band. The 2008 incarnation of Gorgoroth thus consists of Pest (vocals), Infernus (guitars), Tormentor (guitars), Frank Watkins (bass) and Tomas Asklund (drums).

As for the work on the new album, "Quantos Possunt ad Satanitatem Trahunt", it is going ahead more or less as scheduled, but due to the upcoming trial in Oslo in January 2009, the guitar recordings will be slightly postponed. The album will contain eight tracks of Infernus' signature aural evil, and will be released in 2009 on Regain Records. Fear the return!

Having just left Gorgoroth for 'ideological reasons' days before the release for 'Ad Majorem Sathanas Gloriam', The Gauntlet felt it was time for a chat.

The Gauntlet: What have you been up to since leaving Gorgoroth?

King ov Hell: We'll see what the future brings. Basically I wanted to do this interview because the album is my work and I have been very occupied with it for the last four years or something like that. My signatures are all over the album.

The Gauntlet: You were the main songwriter for 'Ad Majorem Sathanas Gloriam'. What was the process for writing the album?

King ov Hell: It was basically in my computer. We have not been in some time. We have not had a drummer so we have not been able to rehearse. We got ahold of Frost after I had written a lot of the material on my computer. The guitars and drum programming were already done. Then we took on the priority of the studio work and co-producing. We succeeded in finishing the album in 2006. It was a very long process.

The Gauntlet: When you were writing the album in the early stages, did you have Frost in mind for the drum parts? He was a member of Gorgoroth in its early stages.

King ov Hell: I didn't have a drummer in mind actually. I just had the patterns written out. Frost contributed with his own style of drumming. The outcome and final result of the album has his signature and his personality on it.

The Gauntlet: Satyricon has gotten a lot more mellow. I have forgotten how good of a drummer Frost was until I heard him on 'Ad Majorem Sathanas Gloriam'.

King ov Hell: I cannot ask or question how he thinks his drumming is compared to it in Gorgoroth. For many, many years back in the early days of Gorgoroth, he participated in the albums as a drummer as well as on some other bands albums. He has also done some touring with us in South America. He is a member of the band in concept and he knows how we think and he captures it in a great way on this album I think.

The Gauntlet: Did you do the writing of the lyrics?

King ov Hell: No, I did all the music and arrangements. Gaahl did all the lyrics. So that is his work. He is in jail as we speak. He would be better than me to answer for the lyrical content than me. They take a larger part of us and the Satanic agenda and Satanic way of thinking. It will be kind of odd if I try to explain what he was thinking when he wrote this.

The Gauntlet: Did he write the lyrics from prison, or where they completed before he entered?

King ov Hell: In the end it was just me and him in a studio in Burgen. He had to go to jail in like 2 weeks. We were more or less locked in a room for 2 weeks writing and had to do four or five songs. It was more or less something we had to do with time pressure on our hands because of him going to jail. He wrote the lyrics in the studio actually after listening to the tapes.

The Gauntlet: We recently spoke with Infernus and he stated he mastered the album.

King ov Hell: We mastered it at The Cutting Room in Sweden. He was not the one mastering it. But he followed the tapes to Sweden. But that is incorrect, it was mastered by The Cutting Room in Sweden. Mastering an album is very much a technical thing and we have people mastering who have been doing it for years and years. It is not for people like us. We have our opinions on how we want the results to be, but in the end its professionals dealing with the mastering. We don't have the equipment or other skills to master an album.

The Gauntlet: Aside from being a fractured band, what other difficulties did you endure in writing and recording the album?

King ov Hell: Besides that fact, it worked really great. Of course we had some problems with people having legal problems and stuff like that. But it really ran smoothly.

The Gauntlet: What is your status in the band?

King ov Hell: We will have to see what the outcome of all this will be. At the moment I am representing my work and not Gorgoroth.