It's a terrible thing to choose a single when you come from the gothic metal genre as we do. Some of the singles around do not just represent the album and they lead people to jump to conclusions. It's like the avante garde expedition crew you send in few numbers to face a much larger army.

We really do prefer people to get into all songs off the album, as we treat them as finely individually for them to stand out in themselves but naturally they belong to a certain groove. Like if you just stopped to watch a beautiful little bay at a river and forte to go down the stream. It's that contrast that makes it work.

So we do release a couple of songs before the whole album hits the street. This time around we got a first premiere on Portuguese national radio with the song "The Last Of Us" and we were met with a good response when it leaked on-line. It's a straight goth-rock song, catchy and dark.

Then we released the title track "Extinct." It is a more powerful tune, with heavy guitar metal riffing and a strong chorus that breaks it into a more melodic thing which sounds great to us, that contrast. Our fans really digged that one, always a killer feeling.

Finally, we will release the album-opener "Breathe (Until We Are No More)" which really sums up the album in a way, it's a song with many moods and we added a Turkish orchestra section into it which really made the song bigger and more exuberant.

All in all, I do have a problem in putting out a single and people spoiling it as a favorite child or scald it as a bastard. Fortunately our fans are album people and so are we. After all if the album is good enough it's like listening to a longer single. That can make it special for all.