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.

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

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

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

I took music theory in high school and dropped out halfway through the semester because it was ruining music for me.

My priorities now a a musician are so different now than they were as a kid. Everyone wants to be a rock star, and I wanted that too; I wanted to be on magazines and be running around the world and having all the fun.

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.