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.

People like a story that has a lot of blood, sweat and tears. But I don't think the Slint story really has that.

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.

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.

It was pretty common to form bands that only lasted a few years. Slint was my favorite band that I was in at the time, and I didn't realize that I was bummed out about it until quite a while later.

I was into Metallica when they first started, like when Kill Em All came out.

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