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Rushonrock.com has posted their recent interview with Edguy/Avantasia Tobias Sammet. Here is a preview of that interview.

rushonrock: Will you ever be really big outside mainland Europe?

TS: It’s getting better for us in the UK. Slowly but surely we’re starting to make an impression on British audiences. If you want to be big in the USA you have to go there and stay there. I wouldn’t want to live in the USA in a million years! It’s a different planet and I don’t want to go there. That means we’re never going to be a big, big act over there but that’s OK. I just don’t want to make the sacrifices we’d have to make to break that market in a big way.

rushonrock: With new album Tinnitus Sanctus up your sleeves you must have a chance?

TS: Every musician says it but TS is the best album we’ve made for sure. It’s a combination of what we’ve done in the past and new elements without sounding too ridiculous. In a heavy metal band you have to be ridiculous to a certain extent but it’s important not to cross the line.

rushonrock: Are you worried about coming over all Spinal Tap in your old age?

TS: There are lot of Spinal Tap moments in every band’s history and we’re no different. But we’ve made a classic melodic metal album which has managed not to sound too ridiculous. That’s an achievement when you play our style of rock. Take Dragonforce. They’re at the extreme end of what we do but they’re ridiculous on purpose. We’re more mid-paced than those guys – they just like to push everything to the limit. They say look at the clothes that I’m wearing and listen to the stupid things that I’m saying and they love it.

The complete interview can found and read at  http://rushonrock.com/2008/11/21/exclusive-edguy-interview/