Shaun Hamilton: I understand you come from Bavaria. Tell us a little about the area and how it has shaped your music.

Bruno Kramm: Well it is not easy to explain how your daily enviroment faces your music. But simply, it is beautiful, we live deep into a forest called the Franconia Woods - it is a wildlife forest - and the part of Germany we live in is Upperfranconia and a part of Bavaria. But to be honest, we stuck more with our computer in the studio instead of roaring with the wolves. ;-)

Shaun Hamilton: In the sense of crossover, was the original intent to blend classical and electronic, or to keep each one by itself but still in the same song?

Bruno Kramm: It is for me a real natural thing to mix classic and electronics. Since I am a kid I always was in contact with classical music, though piano and composition classes with my father. Later I got fascinated wit synthesizers, so it was just one step to mix both worlds, to create something new for myself.

Shaun Hamilton: How would you compare the gothic scene in America and the scene in, say, Germany?

Bruno Kramm: Individually there is no difference but when it comes to the stream it is even different from state to state and even more from country to country. The Americans are more party people than the Europeans. In America everybody works so hard just simply for the basic living, so everybody gets really ecstatic when it comes to party, while here in Europe there is so many shows in a week, so everybody gets a little bored.

Shaun Hamilton: Can you see a full revival of either classical or industrial music either in Europe or America?

Bruno Kramm: I think it will come but I am not the right one to ask this question. Today everything depends on big marketing plans and if it is the industries will, it will happen. Sounds a little sarcastic, but thats the world of today. And that is our motor to do music, to create our better perspective.

Shaun Hamilton: What is your opinion of the Westernization of Germany? And the transition of many Germans from German to English language?

Bruno Kramm: It is really sad, that many young Europeans forget their roots and culture and trade to commercialism and senseless paroles of hip-trend-whatever stuff. Sometimes I get really angry about all this stupidity. And I can understand some muslims which say that we are digging our own graves on fields of plastic and surfaced missing sense.

Shaun Hamilton: Can we expect a new Kramm CD in the near future?

Bruno Kramm: I already started to record some tracks, so it should be done in between the next few months. I also worked with one of my earlier projects Alva Novalis and fahrenheit451. I think 2003 will be a year with many releases from Das Ich and others of our projects.

Shaun Hamilton: With the end of Danse Macabre as a record label, is there danger of titles like STAUB going out of print?

Bruno Kramm: Danse Macabre still exists and will release the new Kramm CD next year. And you can check out the webshop at dansemacabre.de with tons of Danse Macabre stuff , and of course Staub.

Shaun Hamilton: What is the overall view/story of ANTI'CHRIST, and how did the idea come about?

Bruno Kramm: It is no real concept album, but it is determined by religious aspects and the common loss of sense and feeling for others. It is actually our complete status quo of society. Explaining each song is just too much. Actually, the antichrist is no one and everybody, it is a symbol, it could be also Christ or good or evil. It reflects the new growth of dangerous duality between these since Einstein relative being two in one. There is always a for a + equals 0. And the minus and the plus is relative depending on the point of view´as the evil and good (the anti 'christ). And today polarity is used again for political goals on the one side and for control of the public.

Shaun Hamilton: Any words of wisdom and/or interesting German phrases to close the interview?

Bruno Kramm: Zehn zahme Ziegen ziehen zehn Zentner Zucker zum Zaun....;-)