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.

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.

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

Personally, I love the cookie monster grunts. I like how they alienate listeners. We sound the way we sound. We're individuals. We don't all like the same music. Everybody contributes their own influences, style, and history.

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.

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