Heavy Metal Examiner's Mark Morton has issued an interview with frontman Kenn Nardi, of reunited St. Louis-based progressive/melodic thrash metal act ANACRUSIS.

The following is an excerpt from the interview:

Q: So, it was recently announced that a re-activated Anacrusis is playing a festival over in Europe next spring. What spawned the reunion, and what lineup of the band is participating?

A: "We’ve only confirmed the Keep It True 2010 festival at the moment, but we plan on trying to set up a few other shows over the next year or so. It will be the original line-up consisting of myself, Kevin Heidbreder [guitar], John Emery [bass], and Mike Owen [drums], who was with the band from the beginning through the Reason album. Mike just moved back to St. Louis after having spent more than a decade living in San Diego and Las Vegas. He and I began to discuss the possibility of getting together and re-recording some of the old material or writing some new music. At the same time I had been contacted by someone wanting to release our old demo and he got us in touch with a friend who runs the KIT Festival."

Q: Have the guys kept up with playing over the years, or has it been a struggle to recall and revisit the old material? I guess what fans would really want to know is, can you still scream?

A: "Mike had been playing in different bands over the years and Kevin and John had started a 70s and 80s cover band together a few years ago, but I hadn’t done more than some occasional recording on my PC over the years.

It was a bit of a challenge re-learning some of the old material since the last couple of tours we did were playing mostly songs from the last two album which Mike wasn’t even on. After a couple weeks things began to feel comfortable again and John joined us for a few rehearsals where we played everything as a 3-piece. Kevin came down to rehearsal earlier this week to listen in and discuss a few matters and he should be joining us over the next couple of weeks, and yes, I can still scream. Hahaha.

As for the setlist at KIT, we really want to represent as much of our music as possible, which is tough with four albums in under an hour. At this point we are trying to make a good balanced set of equal material from each album. Even though many people prefer the later albums, there are a lot of die-hard fans who would love to hear some of the earlier material and we don’t want to disappoint anyone. One thing we are working on is shortening a few things and maybe doing a couple medley-type arrangements just to fit a few more songs in."

Read the complete interview at Heavy Metal Examiner.