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.

Everyone's attention span these days is limited to how long it takes to flick the iPod wheel on to the next song.

I don't bring any ideology or barriers with me into my music.

Most every album - and especially metal albums these days - are made in a way that you can grow tired of them very easily: They're made to be dissected and played on radio, released as singles or stuck on at parties.

I don't like bands who would play music like Code. I mean I hate most bands with emotional singing parts (I adore metal singing like Iron Maiden though!)

People are appreciating the old stuff again and there's no MTV-style scene police to try to make us all listen to Machine Head and Pantera *puke*!