I was into Metallica when they first started, like when Kill Em All came out.

Punk came along and grunge made guitar solos uncool.

I stayed a kid for a pretty long time, and the logistics of being in a band, I did not take seriously at all.

When I was younger and bands were formed that way, out of friendships rather than anything else. It wasn't like we put up want ads.

I was young, but to me that was underground music. I had never heard anything like Venom or any of that stuff growing up in Louisville. That was sort of the only weird records I could find. All that stuff would be in the import section. And sometimes there would be some sort of goth type of stuff. But that was the stuff I was attracted to.

As I got older, it turned into hardcore punk. I started getting into more aggressive music.

We aren't trying to make poetry or anything beautiful. It's just a rock show. We just want to enjoy playing loud. That's just about it.