We made basement practice songs.To have them presented in such a huge fashion today - like at Primavera, where it's thousands of people in a festival environment - is surreal. I never thought some of the songs would ever need to be projected at such a volume or to such a wide span of people.

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

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.

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

We aren't trying to make poetry or anything beautiful. It's just a rock show. We just want to enjoy playing loud. That's just about it.

We just have to plan everything in advance and concentrate it so that we get everything done in time. It's not as laidback as I wish it could be.

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