Ultimately I want my metal in a bar and not an art gallery.

There are many ways to portray darkness and evil and it isn't all in being mean and tough.

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

In the past stories have been what tethers us to the world and they've made us who we are.

The religion and it's many barbed indoctrinating tendrils just start to become what makes you who you are, so you have to kind of destroy yourself to be able to rebuild yourself and make yourself whole again.

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!