En Esch: "It comes naturally. Every record is made at a different time period, in a different kind of environment as well, with different people and in different ways. We had a practicing room, guitar jamming type of atmosphere on the record before, we were jamming along, sampling guitars right into the computer and building sequences around the guitars. When we went into the studio for 'Angst' we were like already done with the pre-production stuff. 'Nihil' was more free-style, a lot of vocal ideas we did in the studio, a lot of overdubs we came up with in the studio, so the whole creative process was a little different."

What type of things influenced the way "Nihil" turned out?

En Esch: "Sascha moved away to Seattle, I moved away to New Orleans, we finished it in Seattle, and Raymond Watts came into the whole scenario. So it started to be actually influenced by the fact that we worked with Raymond again, working on it in other towns, especially when we made up stuff on the spot. It was influenced by the Seattle atmosphere."

With three vocalists, as it hard figuring out who would sing what on "Nihil"?

En Esch: "Sometimes I had one vocal concept, Raymond had another vocal concept, and Sascha had another vocal concept so we had to put all the ideas together. Some titles are really put together from three different minds. I remember one song, "Terror," we changed the lyrics four times. So it's a time consuming process sometimes. We tried to decide together what we use and don't use."

What was it like working with Raymond again?

En Esch: "Raymond is part of your history, he was the first one to have a studio, a simple but really functional basement studio in Hamburg when Sascha and myself were looking for possibilities to record. So he was the first guy we hooked up with in the studio, he worked with us singing and was the first guy with a sampler we ever met. He had a really primitive sampler. After two records, I don't know, we split up somehow. He went to Berlin, we stayed in Hamburg, and he decided to work more on his own stuff. He was like sound engineer with Einsturzende Neubauten so he did a lot of stuff like that. Sascha and myself were really surprised with Raymond's ability come come up with catchy lines, you can maybe compare it to Trent Reznor. It's really the end of a circle, we start all over again. We have a new cover artist, it doesn't mean they will be cover artist permanently but it's just a good friend of ours. The cover was good, and Raymond's being in the band again, the recording and creativity scenario, it's easy to compare to times we had back then. So we start again, all over again."