It’s easy to sit in the studio and do these gigantic stretches but it’s different when you’ve got to go on tour and play that shit! I want to write things I can execute well on stage. “They’re so easy to throw in and very playable live too, which is key.

I like it that you call them mini sweeps, because that’s what they are! I can do the three- and five-string sweeps in different positions, but there’s something extra cool about those little ones. “I picked that stuff up from Yngwie Malmsteen, probably when I was learning his Rising Force solo. There are parts of your solo that utilise two-string ‘mini sweeps’ – which can help cover a lot of melodic distance very quickly without going into full arpeggio mode… Funnily enough, Summer Storm wasn’t necessarily written to be the first track on the record but it came out so cool I felt it could be my version of that DragonForce opener.” It does this thing where it builds and builds, starting off with a clean guitar and going from there. “It was partly inspired by the first song on DragonForce’s Sonic Firestorm album, which is called My Spirit Will Go On.

The opening track, Summer Storm, builds very quickly from downtuned clean guitars to neoclassical harmonised leads and then triplet riffing…

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