A friend’s mum worked at the local radio station and sold me the promo cd copy they had. It had a sticker on it saying it was a promo and I slowly scratched it off, which I really regret doing.

I remember thinking I’m never going to be familiar with all 28 songs, but I was in no time and the sharp switch between heavy and mellow really gripped me.

We used to turn it up in my mates car for Billy’s solo vocal bits, like “the world is a vampire” and in zero “emptiness is…”