Your singer and violinist, Tim Charles, has said that the pandemic “came close to breaking [Ne Obliviscaris] completely”. Why?
“Everyone had their own individual problems to deal with. Tim went through an awful lot with deaths in the family right in the middle of him writing his parts [for latest album Exul]. The drums were recorded in March 2020. The album had to be recorded across a number of years in nine different studios. When things are delayed that long, frustration seeps in. People didn’t know whether the band was still happening because there had been such delays.”
How did you make it through?