Greece's Rock Overdose recently conducted an interview with ELDRITCH frontman Terence Holler. Excerpts are available below:

Rock Overdose: If I am not wrong, Eldritch are celebrating 20 years of existence. How do you feel with this?

Terence Holler: “Well, when we started in 1991 we never expected to release eight studio albums, one double live album, one live DVD, three re-issues of old albums and many shows and tours around the world! We come from Italy and it’s not easy to become a rock-musician coming from our land.”

Rock Overdose: Your new album is titled Gaia’s Legacy. How has the response been on the new album, and what kind of expectations do you have for it?

Terence Holler: “Well, it’s still too early; the album will be out in three weeks from now, so we only got some response from journalists and reviewers…. All the critics are great! We’re sure we did a real masterpiece of progressive metal! Eldritch doesn’t sound like any other prog metal band on earth! This is the truth.”

Rock Overdose: It’s been four years since your last record Blackenday, why this took so long?

Terence Holler: “After Blackenday (2007) we released the double live album and DVD Livequake (2008) and then toured Europe with FIREWIND… We finished touring in 2009 and then started the song writing for Gaia’s Legacy… It took a lot of time because we decided to have a keyboard player in the band again, like for the first era… The album is hyper technical, so it needed one year to write the whole stuff! Then seven months for pre-producing, recording, mixing, mastering etc… This is the reason why four years between the previous album and this one!”

Rock Overdose: Gaia s Legacy is based on Al Gore’s documentary An Inconvenient Truth that is talking about the global warming. Can you tell us a few words about it?

Terence Holler: “Al Gore did an excellent film/documentary based on the global warming impact on the world’s life! If you watch it you could learn so many things about what is happening to our planet…. I found it very interesting and useful to write an album on something important and maybe could open some minds about what the hell is going on! Of course, I’m not launching any kind of slogan! I’m just a singer, but at least I didn’t write anything stupid!”

Rock Overdose: Bob Katsionis played as a guest musician on the ‘Like A Child’ song. How was the cooperation with him?

Terence Holler: “Bob is an outstanding musician! He’s a great guitarist and also keyboardist… He’s a fan of Eldritch and we became friends touring with Firewind. We just asked him and he said yes! Very simple…. He’s also a down to earth guy and it was a pleasure working with him.”

Read the entire interview here.

Eldritch released their eighth studio album, Gaia’s Legacy, on September 25th via Scarlet Records.

Gaia’s Legacy was produced by Marco Ribecai and Eugenio Simone at Syncropain Products Studio in Pisa, Italy and mastered by Göran Finnberg (OPETH, IN FLAMES, EVERGREY, DARK TRANQUILLITY) in Sweden.

Gaia's Legacy tracklisting:

'Gaia's Anger'

'Deviation'

'Our Land'

'Vortex Of Disaster'

'Mother Earth'

'Everything's Burning'

'Tonight Out'

'Like A Child'

'Signs'

'Thoughts Of Grey'

'Thirst In Our Hands (Gaia's Lament)'

'Through Different Eyes'

Check out the band's new video, for 'Everything's Burning', below: