KAMELOT keyboardist Oliver Palotai recently spoke with the band's official fanclub in Germany. An excerpt from the interview is available below:

Q: Did you already start thinking about the next Kamelot album? Is it going to be proggier, now that you and Tommy (Karevik/vocals) are part of the songwriting team?

Oliver: "I have the first idea for a song written down. I start collecting ideas weeks before I begin working on a project. When I watch a movie, for example, and the end credits scroll down, most others would already go back to the menu. I keep watching, hear a phrase and think: 'That would be cool for Kamelot.' Something like this, or the set-up of instruments. Therefore I’ve already been collecting ideas for weeks and making mental notes. How complex the whole thing will be is impossible to say. Such things usually evolve during the songwriting process.

But I have to be careful in general. I always have to check what I’m doing, because I usually tend to go into a too complex direction. Things that I see myself as absolutely simple and catchy, are perceived completely differently by others. The typical response goes like this: 'I think I have to listen to this a couple more times.'"

Q: Since Tommy became the new singer of Kamelot, the band have really blossomed. How were the last 1 ½ years with Kamelot?

Oliver: "It felt like this for me too. You can’t deny that a lot of internal knots got unravelled. With the new singer it was a new beginning for us. That was a super positive feeling and it actually still is. Tommy is, through his occupational background alone, a very disciplined and reliable guy. He doesn’t conform at all to the usual conventions, which I personally recognize from 90% of all singers, and I have played in quite a few bands so far. That is also something that the band itself benefits from. This positive energy gave everyone a boost."

Go to this location for the complete interview.

Kamelot's Canadian backing vocalist ALISSA WHITE-GLUZ (THE AGONIST) has checked in with the following update:

"Come hang out behind the scenes with Kamelot! Thank you so much to the amazing Kamelotians I have met over the past three years - Kam-fans are amazingly kind and dedicated! Any of you who have met us at the meet & greets know just how cool the Kamelot guys are too! I'm a very lucky girl!"

Kamleot recently wrapped up a South American tour in support of their latest album, Silverthorn. The band has posted a photo gallery from the tour here, an official recap video can be seen below: