- The new album is a 10-track + 3 bonuses on the CD version. Like our previous album "Manifesto" we recorded "Altering Fates and Destinies" at the Vamacara Studios with producer HK Krauss. "Altering Fates and Destinies" is a very dark album, powerful, more mid paced than its predecessors, I would say it's the heaviest album in the band's career so far in terms of patterns, sound and production wise. It's a good synthesis of what we stand for in 2024. We don't forget where we come from yet we didn't set any boundaries and vowed to do whatever the fuck we wanted. There's great amount of melody on the songwriting without losing intensity.

Honestly, I did compose the songs without thinking of an album in the very beginning. I didn't ask myself the question of how many slow or fast pieces I was going to compose, in fact I let my ideas unfold over the months, when I had to finalize the album, I realized that there were perhaps more heavy, mid-tempo pieces than on any other Loudblast albums.

- A new member joined us as guitar player, he's named Nicklaus Bergen, he shared most of the lead parts with Fred Leclercq on "Altering Fates and Destinies".

- I would admit that "Altering Fates and Destinies" is a fairly personal album, it's an album that I composed in its entirety, you can find there what characterizes the sound of Loudblast, but I tried to explore facets of our music that I had perhaps not previously dared to explore, it's probably the first time in my life that I don't set barriers for myself, I would say that it's a more accomplished album than "Manifesto", it's an album that will surprise but once again I didn't ask myself these kinds of questions, I composed a lot of pieces and I selected those which seemed to me to tell the story that I wanted to print on this album.

Talking about the lyrics, the album is divided into 2 main themes: Lovecraftian mythology, themes that we had already talked about in the first albums, in fact I reread all of Lovecraft last year and I said to myself that it was cool to return a little to our first loves, "From Beyond II (The Return)" necessarily refers to the short story of the same name for example. What's great about Lovecraft is that his universe is completely crazy and imaginary, so you can also reinterpret what he wrote, so you are free to do with it what you want in the end. "Putrid Age of Decay" talks about the inexorable end that awaits us all, finally there is this dark side, which has always been approached in our lyrics, but we will say that on this album, I did not want really be lighter but there's a moment sometimes when you say to yourself "shit, I've gone over all the uncool things I wanted to say".

- Indeed, Stefan did a fantastic job, he came up with this idea after he listened to the demos I sent to him, we wanted to have this main character, this king of chaos overwhelming the world, that is coming to change your destiny. He's the King of Darkness.

- It's always a challenge to re-release classics of a band, my band for example. First the remastering got to fit with the original release when bringing a higher quality of sound for the listener, HK Krauss did an amazing job on all the remasters.

Then comes the artwork and archives and I got tons of "never seen before" pictures or items, so it's a long work, you got to keep the spirit of the original releases, and sometimes you got to adapt the cover, for instance the "Cross the Threshold" cover was banished from the platforms, because of nudity, so we were obliged to change it a bit, by the way I'm very lucky to have this close relationship with the whole Listenable crew, we are a team, so everything is easier to put in shape.

My format is definitely vinyls, I owned a big collection myself and I want our releases on vinyl to be unique.

- We're gonna start the first tour with Disbelief in March/April 2025, then celebrate the 40 years anniversary of Loudblast. I have been working on it since the beginning of the year, we will celebrate this anniversary in April in our hometown Lille. We will play 5 different concerts in 4 days, April 17/18/19/20. We will cover the entire career of Loudblast and we will play songs that we haven't played on stage for a very long time or never ever played on stage. We're working on 70 songs, one of the concerts will also be more festive with quite a few guests. It's going to be a historical moment, and the 40th Anniversary Tour will follow. Then will start the summer festivals' time and another tour is planned with Seth in September/October 2025. We want to play in every city we can visit.

- Le Bal des Enragés was an amazing journey, but it's over. I can confirm to you that the new Sinsaenum album is completed. Tribute to Thrash still raging the covers from the 80's Thrash Anthems. Undead Prophecies – can't talk about a band I'm not playing in.

- We're working with different artists: Gary Ronaldson of Bite Radius (Kreator, Sepultura, Napalm Death, ...), Raf the Might of Too Many Skulls (Slayer, Machine Head, ...) and many more, but still trying to give the best designs with the best artists to our fans. Get it here: loudblast-music.com.

- Bands like Loudblast, Massacra and Agressor created this extreme scene back in the days and I definitely think that we opened the doors for this scene to become way bigger. Then came Mercyless, then Benighted, Kronos, Anorexia Nervosa, Gorod, Seth, Regarde les Hommes Tomber and many more, without talking about the international success from our friends Gojira.

So as you can see our extreme scene is way more bigger and professional than it used to be.

- Thanks a lot for the great support, I hope to see you Kornel and all our fans very soon on the road next year. Make death metal great again!