Punk came along and grunge made guitar solos uncool.

I'm looking for anything interesting in the guitar playing, songwriting, artwork, and production. If you look at the stack of CDs on my desk and in my car, you'll find a very wide range of music under the umbrella of metal.

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

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

I think the majority of the people in the band still play in other bands, because we're not that active. But for me, it's the only thing I want to do and it's the only thing I'm focused on. I've always played in a couple of different bands at once, but now I'm only interested in the Dead Child 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.

I was into the music, but the idea of showing up places on time or having to tell people when you're not going to be somewhere - that just didn't even cross my mind.