Now since I've gotten back into it, I've been listening to a lot more of the 1990s death metal type stuff.

Personally, I love the cookie monster grunts. I like how they alienate listeners. We sound the way we sound. We're individuals. We don't all like the same music. Everybody contributes their own influences, style, and history.

It was pretty common to form bands that only lasted a few years. Slint was my favorite band that I was in at the time, and I didn't realize that I was bummed out about it until quite a while later.

In my entire life I never set out to do anything ground-breaking or pioneering, and I'm not going to start anytime soon.

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.

There are so many things that kept forcing metal back down to the underground. It survives everywhere on the planet.

I listen to every type of metal under the sun. I'm not very discerning.