Metal Assault recently caught up with AUGURY frontman Patrick Loisel om the SOILWORK / DEATH ANGEL tour An excerpt from the interview is available below.

Q: How's this tour going for you guys?

Patrick: "Oh the tour is going really great. We are for the first time in the tour bus and we are with Death Angel and Swashbuckle who are like the coolest people you can have. Also, the turnout is great even though we are a bit heavy for the general crowd on this tour."

Q: You're the most technical, the most different band on this line-up. So what's the crowd reaction been like?

Patrick: "Actually, a lot of them dig us anyways. We're not a totally death metal band from the beginning to the end of each song, you know. We have quiet parts and blast beats but we pretty much fit with the other bands as we also have nice solos and clean stuff. It's not like say, MORTICIAN was opening for Soilwork."

Q: What's the situation with the band's line-up? Are your bassist and drummer permanent members or have you still not decided?

Patrick: "Well that's funny because we never tour twice with the same line-up (laughs). The drummer is a permanent fixture. Tommy [McKinnon] is an old friend of ours. During the video recording of 'Concealed' [2004] we already knew Tommy. So he was always our first preference but the time wasn't right and he himself was not available when we needed a drummer. But now it's the right time. We might want to work with Forest [Lapointe, bass] again. Even if he doesn't want to tour, we would like to invite him on the album. We might ask the touring bassist on this tour but it'll be a little bit long because we've been touring and recording non-stop for three years and I have to put aside my career as a teacher. So when we go back to our professional careers and recover financially, we will write the third album. I already have a song for it. It's not quite ready to play live. I have a couple of other pieces too which I would arrange and prepare demos for the rest of the band. We want to do it faster than the previous records but not by too much. It's not the kind of music that you can go and record it in three days. We have to pick our time to do it."

Go to this location for the complete interview. Pictures from Augury's set at the Santa Ana, CA show by Chris Loomis are available here.