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we are soldiers we have guns is Gothenburg resident Malin Dahlberg (also in Douglas heart and Laurel music). Sometimes there's help from additional friends and players; Robert Tenevall (Royal Downfall, Knugen Faller) and Pontus Wallgren (Franke, Douglas Heart, Afraid of Stairs) should be mentioned. At fist it was just a large pile of songs that the other members of Douglas heart had rejected. Now, we are soldiers we have guns is the music I wish someone would have played to me when I was 11 and forced to go to school even though I hated it. It's the songs I would have written if I knew how to when hiding in my high schools toilets, hating the cool and the not so cool kids equally. It's songs from the backseat of tour vans, listening to a whole lot of craptalk about nothing. we are soldiers we have guns will never be cool or cute, and it will never be ironic. This is we are soldiers we have guns. My mum has a saying that she uses quite frequently. She usually sighs, musters all her adult realism/cynicism and mumbles "The fleshly lusts and the eternal loneliness of the soul" (but in swedish of course). Keeping my bitter mum in mind, the title "to meet is murder" is quite understandable. "The line is a dot to you" is dedicated to the bastard that tried to get my phonenumber and informed me of his personal hygiene during a show with my other band Douglas Heart. I had a lot of fun after the show, speculating about how I would kill him if I got the chance. "The trick is to love" is inspired by a story a friend in Leipzig told me about a hardcore band from some rough neighbourhood. In an interview they are asked how they manage to survive, and a bandmember answers "The trick is to breathe". My question is how you survive surrounded by people you can't/won't communicate with. The answer: "The trick is to love". Other inspirational sources are the movie about Death Cab "Sleep well and drive carefully" (don't ask me why), moving around in Sweden, lots of anger, lots of people and lots of music. The recording process has, for the first time in my life, been fun. Jocke and I have done everything together, taken turns on all instruments (regardless of who does it "best") and who buys the red wine and chocolate. We've done exactly what we felt like in the studio, no matter if it meant doing drums on a coffee mug with pencils or watching Napoleon Dynamite on the computer. this is the new ep from we are soldiers we have guns, "to meet is murder". (source: http://www.wearesoldiers.net)