The-suffering.cz spoke to ATHEIST frontman Kelly Shaefer during their one and only live performance in Prague, Czech Republic recently. An excerpt from the interview (found here) follows:

The-suffering.cz: What is the future for Atheist after all your reunion shows are over?

Shaefer: "This is it. We don’t want to be like all these other bands. This is not about money. It’s not about trying to kick-start our career again. We all continue to play music, lots of different kind of music. I have NEUROTICA that’s coming back again in 2007. We’ve never had a European release, so I am coming back with them. This [reunion] was just about celebrating those three albums [of Atheist] and coming over here with Steve Flynn on drums. We really wanted to bring Rand Burkey (Atheist original guitarist) as well but he got some legal trouble and wasn’t able to come at the last minute. But these two guitar players did a good job and we just wanted to come over and play these songs one last time for Europe, and just have fun. Now that people understand it and appreciate it more, we thought it would be fun to take them over and do it. We did the reissues on Relapse because I just saw people paying a lot of money for used copies and I hated that. I hated that people were spending hundred US dollars on a CD. So, that’s why we wanted to make it possible for fans now to get it for ten US dollars instead of a hundred and throw some old stuff, some old demos on it, trying to make a good package. When we did, it ended up being way more successful than we anticipated. So, we thought well, maybe we could do some shows."