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

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.

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

My kids don't really like when I sing for some reason...but they like when I play guitar. So I started writing songs just playing guitar for them.

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.

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.