Metal Shock Finland's Alison Booth recently caught up with Tunisian metallers Myrath in Sheffield, who are are currently supporting New Jersey prog metallers Symphony X on their Underworld Europe Tour 2016.

A few excepts from the chat with vocalist Zaher can be read below, with the full audio available here.

On their new album, Legacy, Zaher revealed: "We compose from the heart, it’s not mechanical. Maybe that’s why it took us many years, because we passed through many difficult moments, like the death of our godfather, Malek’s father. It was a shock, he was such an inspiration for us and he was our manager. I can tell you, without him and without Kevin Codfert our producer, we could do nothing, I would not be talking to you now.

Then came the revolution in Tunisia, so it has negative and positive sides. Then we wrote the album and completed everything in my home town of Sousse in Tunisia. Then we moved to France and recorded in Paris and it was mixed there by Kevin Codfert. He went to Sweden to Jens Bogren, he loved the material, he fell in love with 'this kebab metal' (laughs).”

The most important things for us is composing and making albums, because we are full of inspiration and full of energy. We’re still young and I think we brought something new to the metal scene that nobody brought before. There are many bands who use these kind of minor scales in their music, just to say ‘this is oriental’, but where I come from this is oriental clichés – everybody does like (sings) Cleopatra or pyramids Hollywood movies."