KNAC.com's Peter Atkinson recently spoke to BEHEMOTH frontman Nergal about the band's new album, The Apostasy, and their upcoming OZZFest jaunt. Following are a few excerpts:

On touring North America for Demigod - “I’m happy that we did it, we fucking bit the bullet, we took no fucking prisoners and we pushed it as hard as we could. During the Zos Kia Cultus period, when we were doing the U.S. tours, I was so depressed. The band was self-destructing, so I had to reorganize everything before Demigod. And when we came back it was the best lineup I’ve ever had in this band. We did 300 shows worldwide just for Demigod, we did five tours in the U.S. We’ve been in peoples’ faces all the fucking time, we were making people like our music. It might be rough, but here if you work hard, you eat shit, but you can be pretty sure that at the end of the day you’re going to eat cake.”

On OZZFest - “We’ve got nothing to lose. You’re going to see us in the full sun with the full armor, with the makeup on, blasting the shit out of the audience, and that’s what it’s gonna be. If you don’t like it fine, if you love it, cool.”

On the new album, The Apostasy - “This band started as a fucking dangerous extreme metal band and it still is, it’s probably more dangerous than it ever was. We had to make a statement with this record and that’s what we did. That’s what The Apostasy is; it’s a diverse, massive, epic record and at the same time it’s faster and more extreme than Demigod was. We want to definitely prove something.”

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