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

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.

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

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

We were pretty normal - suburban kids having a good time playing in bands. We were silly. We weren't dark, intense, humorless people. Humor was one of the connecting forces among us. It was more like camaraderie.

As far as specific bands from the 90s death metal era, I love Death, Carcass, Possessed, Morbid Angel, Gorguts, Autopsy, Atheist, etc.

People like a story that has a lot of blood, sweat and tears. But I don't think the Slint story really has that.