Bands are more willing to take risks and we don't need this big label over us anymore telling us what it means to sell records and get into magazines.

When you're trying to free yourself from a religion that has been ingrained in you since childhood, it's more like ripping out your veins and tendons.

I do try to pay attention to new bands and what's happening within the scene. I try to make sure I give everything a listen - even if I loathe it.

I think when you have a band that are so separate and isolated then you have to know each others styles and characters quite well.

Bands are more willing to take risks and we don't need this big label over us anymore telling us what it means to sell records and get into magazines.

I have a lot of mental scars from being brought up Catholic and being sent to Catholic school for 13 years!

Basically every song on modern metal albums follows a formula and you get that formula in between one to three tracks.