The band has always been such a huge part of my life and it kept me very busy. That, in combination with something like running a record label, just means my whole life revolves completely around metal music and I can't do that anymore.

As convenient as that would be to make it easier to communicate with more prolific musicians, I don't want to think of music like a math equation.

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

The band has always been such a huge part of my life and it kept me very busy. That, in combination with something like running a record label, just means my whole life revolves completely around metal music and I can't do that anymore.

When you're not putting a bunch of chemicals into everbody, people tend not to fly off the handle.

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

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