Some people are really into being music-minded and knowing all their scales and how to read music and speak the language.

It's been nice to have a band and people I'm close to that I can get that understanding from and help me realize what I want to do in my life as a musician.

I don't think in time signatures, and when I do, what I write is generally 3/4 or 4/4, the most basic, straightforward stuff. I think that comes from just not being a super-schooled musician.

Hate walks hand in hand with hate, and black metal especially is a genre that is full of white power bands.

I like just having that separation between my music life and my personal life.

I'm not going to hide the fact that I am a happy person.

I think it's safe to say that 50% of the record buying metal community is people between the ages of 16 and 25 - people still in their teenage-angsty, early young-adult years.