Cameron Edney recently conducted an interview with MORTAL SIN’s Mat Maurer. In the interview Maurer talks about the bands upcoming show in Newcastle, UK, the bands soon to be released new album, the 25th anniversary of Mayhemic Destruction, and more. Excerpts from the interview are below:

Cameron Edney: Some of the tracks that really stood out to me when listening to the samples were ‘Burned Into Your Soul’, ‘Blood Of My Enemies’, ‘Kingdom Of Pain’ and ‘Hatred’… ‘Burned Into Your Soul’ in particular I was drawn to immediately and it sounds like something that could have easily fitted on the last TESTAMENT album! I read that you wanted to make an album that could live up to the most recent and very successful Testament and OVERKILL albums; when the time came to put the new album together was that a high priority, making the album compared to those or was it something that came a little later on?

Mat Maurer: “What we wanted to do was a simple thrash album, sometimes you can get so caught up in the complexities of everything that you forget about what thrash is all about. This time around we said we wanted to go back to our roots, we we’re going to write an album like ‘Mayhemic Destruction’, simple old school thrash! When we talked about what we wanted to do for this album we said we wanted to put a mix of KREATOR’s ‘Hordes Of Chaos’, Testament’s ‘The Formation Of Damnation’ and a few other things, as well as some early Mortal Sin of course.”

Cameron Edney: With every new album, no doubt there are many new experiences in the studio; the creative surroundings can change and so on! How did you push yourself musically and creatively this time around to come up with the best results possible for the new album?

Mat Maurer: “[Laughs] You don’t wanna know the answer to that, we don’t have enough time to discuss that [laughs]. I think it was an interesting process this time but getting the best result was more important than anything. We’re all passionate musicians; we’ve been doing this for such a long time now, we’re the same as any band, we have our musical differences but the end product is the most important thing. How you get to that end product sometimes is a mystery to everyone, it just happens, sometimes you have to work really hard at it, sometimes god knows how it happens. When I started writing for this album it had been three, nearly four years and I couldn’t even bloody remember how to write a song! You get yourself into that mode of playing after recording your last album, and when it’s time to start writing again you think to yourself… okay how do I do this again? That’s the way I felt but once we got into the groove of it we got a really good result.”

Cameron Edney: Mate, as we know with all new albums you hit the road hard spreading the word. You have already booked two shows ahead of the album’s release, one in Sydney and one in Newcastle. What can the metal fans expect when you hit the stage? Will you be showcasing many new live tracks?

Mat Maurer: “We’re doing four new songs, two of which we’ve been playing for over a year now. We’re doing ‘Blood of My Enemies’ and ‘Hatred’, ‘Psychology Of Death’ and ‘Denial’. We might mix it up a bit as we go along, we want to see what the fans feelings are, if they start yelling out for certain songs then we will play them. Until they get to hear the new album we’ll stick the ones we like, not to say that we don’t like them all but when you’re playing an hour long set and you have six albums to choose from you have to play your best songs. Once the albums been out for a while we might play some different songs, we’ll see what happens.”

To read the entire interview go here.

As previously reported, an unofficial fan-made video for Mortal Sin's new song, 'Blood Of My Enemies', can be seen below:

Mortal Sin are in the final stages of preparation for the forthcoming album, Psychology Of Death.

Psychology Of Death features the following tracklisting:

'Psychology Of Death'

'Blood Of My Enemies'

'Paralysed'

'Burned Into Your Soul'

'Deny'

'Doomed To Annihilation'

'Kingdom Of Pain'

'Down In The Pit'

'Hatred'

Check out a Psychology Of Death album teaser below: