As you all know, Destine will release their second album in not too long. I was wondering what you guys expect from it. In what way do you hope their music improved? What do you hope to be the same or just totally different than Lightspeed?

My expectations are very high, haha. (Most of the) things I've already heard sound very promissing. It is still the same Destine sound, but then a little better. I was very impressed by the vocals in 'Thousand Miles', it's very powerful. 'Stay' is vocally less strong but I think the overall song is better, this is a song that really touched me from the first time I heard it. The songs are much deeper than (most of) the songs on Lightspeed, which I think is very good. I like deep music, with impressive lyrics haha. Also the song previews in the studio updates sound very promissing.

Although I really love Lightspeed, there are some songs on the album that do not touch me (don't know how to express my feelings in this was haha). They're not very outstanding. 'Everything In Me' for example is in my eyes just a song to fill up the album, it's not bad but it's nothing special, I don't feel anything with it. I hope the new album will have less of these kind of songs. Although, from what l've heard at this moment 'The Awakening' could be one of this kind of songs. But it could be much better when I hear the album version.

Haha shame on you indeed ;) 

Hooray for me, I finally took the time to check out the previews! They sound awesome. I'm looking foward to the next album even more now!

Last I've heard it's not. Night Skies was originally written for Lightspeed, but it didn't fit with the rest of the songs so it was left out. You can still get a version of Lightspeed with Night Skies on it, the Japanese label wanted bonustracks so they placed Night Skies as a bonus track, along with The Disapointment and Down, which is also a bonus track on the European album :)

Haha you're welcome! It is a shame, I love the song too, it reminds me of A Dozen Dreams. You can hear how much Robins voice has changed. It's so much stronger now :) Glad they performed it live twice though!

I'm also curious about the amount of songs on the album. Since I know they've recorded 4 songs during the first session and I thought Robin wrote six new songs? However, Hubrecht once told the amount of songs would approximately be the same as on Lightspeed.