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.

You can go to any small town in America, there's going to be a metal fan there. You can't say that about post-rock.

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

The thing I like about the band [Dead Child] is that there's no pretense. We aren't even trying to be artists or poets.

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

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

There are five of us. We've all played in various bands together, in different combinations. I know that Todd [Cook] and Tony [Bailey] are my favorite rhythm section - they're just like a unit. I guess we've all just played together in various capacities, so when the band was coming together, it was sort of like we just chose members because they had similar sensibilities and also because they're just cool. We all got along real well.