Punk came along and grunge made guitar solos uncool.

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.

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

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

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.

In my entire life I never set out to do anything ground-breaking or pioneering, and I'm not going to start anytime soon.

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.