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ranks in 2012, have played in bringing out and we actually had discussions about was the 90s sound and that didn’t really fit
the best in them. whether we were going to continue. We with our music. We wanted something
Joel says, “The song writing is still were at a crossroads and it was something which was more back to the 80s. But when
pretty much the same, because it is Danny we communicated to our fans as well, and we started to record, not a lot of people
who writes 99% of everything, but when it with their support… well, they basically told knew how to do that, because the ones who
comes to the new guys in the band, above us that we had to go on and give it one did it were either billionaires because they
all it was their great knowledge about more chance and we were quite lucky in lived in the 80s, or they were just too old to
sounds, because we always went into a stu- finding those two new guys and they lived care, so the younger generation recorded
dio before and we’d be like, ‘Yeah, we think quite close by, as well.” in their fashion.
we want this sound,’ but we weren’t really Joel adds, “Chrisse had already played “But I think now a lot of that stuff is
sure how to get it, but Chrisse and Jens a few shows with us. I think it would have coming back a lot more, because you can
(Lungren) were like, ‘Yeah, but this song, it been much harder if we’d had to start from get digital stuff which sounds like the 80s,
needs a bit more Def Leppard from that scratch with two new guitarists, but we al- the old version, without having to pay out
song or that album or that kind of sound,’ ready had Jens as a back-up for a couple of of your arse to get it.”
and they’d be like, ‘But it’s this amplifier, gigs and we’d done some recording with Joel continues, “You have to be aware
you tweak this here,’ and all of a sudden we him as well. He was actually our first fan. as well, you can’t take anything away from
had a sound that we needed for that partic- When we were a demo band and we started the digital age and the influence it has on
ular bit.” the Crazy Lixx fan club, he was number modern music, because no bands get two
Danny continues, “I’m the kind of pro- one!” million dollars to go and record an album
ducer, I can think in my head what I want to Danny recalls, “We’ve some photos of anymore. You get a certain amount of
hear, but I have no way of making the us when he was 15 which we’d signed for money and you have this much time and
sound on an amp or anything like that, so him!” GO! So in some ways it made it easier and
in that way they brought in a lot of knowl- He talks more about their knowledge of allowed us to fit the budget we had.”
edge because they’ve been in the studio a the modern technology bands of today use Upon releasing their newest material,
long time. Jens has his own studio, so he’s and the difference it has made to Crazy Lixx Danny declared, “We’ve tried the same ‘all
recorded with bands before. in 2017 and ‘Ruff Justice’. killer, no filler’ approach that we’ve gone for
“I think they also brought some much “The stuff that you did back then, you on our previous album, but this time, more
needed positive energy, because we were had some typical stuff which you did to gui- than ever, I think we’ve come close to that
in a position where we lost two guitarists tars and vocals and stuff like that, and that vision”. Reminding him of this quote,

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