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.

I'm still in the Midwest, but I'm in Columbus, Ohio, so I'm three and a half hours away from everybody. That's one of the reasons we're not as active as we'd like to be - it's an expensive chore for me to go down there just to talk or something.

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

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

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

Punk came along and grunge made guitar solos uncool.

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