When I was younger and bands were formed that way, out of friendships rather than anything else. It wasn't like we put up want ads.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.