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

I'm looking for anything interesting in the guitar playing, songwriting, artwork, and production. If you look at the stack of CDs on my desk and in my car, you'll find a very wide range of music under the umbrella of metal.

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

When I was really young, I was really into Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden and those kinds of bands.

My kids don't really like when I sing for some reason...but they like when I play guitar. So I started writing songs just playing guitar for them.

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.

To be honest, just trying to get everybody together in one room to get our picture taken for the back of the album, it took so long just to organize that.