Hi guys, first of all congratulations for your newest album. So far how is the reaction for this?

Thanks. The reaction to the album "Nightly Ray" is very positive, although we seem to split the metalworld with our music. Some journalists are a little confused because we offer many metal genres from hardrock and powermetal to progressive black and much more. Some magazines say, that we play deathmetal, others say we play powermetal and so on. But they have something in common: Emergency Gate do their own way without any idols - it’s a new kind of metal .

"Emergency Gate", you know that some times this gate is a life saver, why you choose these two words for your band?

Oh that's a question, which many people are asking me. First the name was just an idea and meant nothing, it only sounded good. But with the years, the name Emergency Gate gets more important - if you listen to the lyrics, you will hear some tips what you can do in difficult situations - a Emergency Gate for everyone ?

Your newest album released through Universal, a really big label, so far are you satisfied with their help?

Yeah, thats right, Universal is really big, we work with a division of them: The Electric Co. located in the Netherlands. We are happy to be on this label. The guys believe in us and that feels great. We had some offers from other labels, but the guys gave us a fair and amazing deal and thats the reason we signed with them. One of our biggest successes was the signing wit a label from the US even before we released in Europe It FOR LABELS WHO READ THIS INTERVIEW AND MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN EMERGENCY GATE: Universal is searching for license partners in some - feel free to connect www.the-electric-co.com

We can say that musically you walk in the commercial rock music, do you agree and if not what is your music direction through your album?

Sorry, but I can’t agree with you Antonis. We play our own music. We can not say we play rock music or power metal, because the members of Emergency Gate listen to different genres of metal ... we take the best of the genres - I think it's to easy to say we play commercial rock music - we want to give people who buy our CD something new - to close the ring - for example one listens to power metal and the other listens to NU Rock. The power metaler say Nu Rock is shit and the Nu Rock freak maybe thinks the same about power metal. If you listen to our CD the powermetaler say great and the Nu rock fan too. That’s that what we want - it's difficult but possible to cross modern metal music with oldschool.

Tell us few things about the very good cover that you have choose for your newest work.

Our cover was made by a famous artist called Georg "Schlumpf" Huber from Bavaria. He already won some of the biggest artist prices. The reason why we choose this cover was that we wanna give a kind of message to the people. The Cover contains two rules: Don't play with the supernatural, it exists and it's not for playing. ... but even if surrounded by darkness, a single belief will cast a ray of light... that's "Nightly Ray".

If someone’s comes to a live show of Emergency Gate, what he/she will see?

If someone will come to a Emergency Gate concert, they can enjoy a great professional show. We give 120% on stage to satisfay the visitors of the concert. They will sing with us and we all together will start a big party which everyone will remember. For us it's the gratest pleasure to be on the stage and we do everything so people feel the same.

Do you have plans for live gigs in the near future?

Yeah, sure we will play as support for Axxis, than we want to play some gigs in Austria , Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg and Switzerland. And we are very much looking forward to play some club gigs in the US, where our label is planning our release in early fall this year.

How you will promote your album?

On label side they do all they can to promote the album via press, online and radios. But to play live and to get in contact with the fans is at least as important to promote the CD and our merchandise stuff.

In few words, how was your time when you recorded this album?

We had a lot of fun to be in big studios, but on the other side it was a hard work 14 - 18 hours a day and this for a long time. Less sleep, fast food, but happy that a dream is going true. Especially as we had the honour to work with one of the best producers: Spike Streefkerk who already worked with a couple of international bigstars!

As far as the new songs, how it works with you. I mean someone brings an idea and then you work altogether with this or you just jam and then you will have some new tunes?

Usually, someone writes lyrics and than he comes to the us and says: Look, here is my new creation; mostly he had still the music in his mind. Sometimes we create some new parts. But if we go to the studio I?m still filling the songs with ideas.

If I will push the play button on your CD player what I will hear?

WOW that is a difficult question , I hear so many Bands sometimes In Flames, sometimes Evergrey, Edguy, Bon Jovi, Guns n Roses - that’s a thing of my feeling - but always good stuff.

What is your wildest dream for Emergency Gate?

The wildest dream for Emergency Gate is the same of all musicians: to play in big arenas around the world. But I think the most important thing is to have fun with music and the fans at the shows. So even playing in front of may be 200 or 300 fans can bring you a lot of fun because of the close contact.

Thank you guys for your time and close the interview as you want.

I think its not usual to say that, but these words are for all fans, partners, friends, parents, our spirits etc. Thank you all - without you we couldn't start our way - Thanks very much to you all and keep on rockin?