The topics discussed include Haake\'s recent remix of Rammstein\'s hit Bezin, why the drummer decided to do no live drumming on the \"Catch 33\" album and used programmed drums instead, and his plans for an upcoming Meshuggah album.

Despite doing a remix, Tomas Haake confesses he and the other members of Meshugga are not Rammstein fans:

\"[We]\'re not fans of their music. But they asked us and Universal Music sent us the song that they wanted us to do the remix for and we thought it sucked, their version of it. But we figured, \'Why the hell not?! Let\'s give it a shot,\' because we\'ve never really done things like that before, but we figured let\'s try at least. So that\'s what we did and I think it turned out pretty cool. (...) It\'s really slow and it\'s not all Meshuggah but you can definitely hear it in there. We took most of what they had out of there. We basically only used their lead vocals from their recording. Apart from that, we made all new drums, all new riffs and it\'s like half the tempo. It\'s like super heavy and sludgy.\"

Thomas Haake states it’s quite a taboo in very percussive metal scene to say \"yeah, this while album is programmed drums\". Yet he claims it was just the right thing to do for the album \"Catch 33\":

\"What we wanted was basically like a super steady emotionless rhythm section behind it. We have such great samples. We have access to such great stuff as far as drum samples and all that goes. So, we just noticed early on that this just sounds fucking good as it is and if I were to go in there and record like super steady kind of held back drumming, it wouldn’t have come out this way, it would have been a totally different album. Also it would have taken forever just to learn this part that we play for 13 minutes, which that took us a month to learn and it’s not at all like the harder parts of the album to learn. It would have taken like half a year to learn all the drum parts especially with the way we did it.\"

Read the entire interview at Metal-Temple.com.