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 loathe most crossover music. Yet I like to think when it comes to Code it's something different.

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

I like what's going on in Finland, with the rebirth of Beherit. I also like a band called Oranssi Pazuzu and a band called Spiderpact. There's a great scene there where they don't really care what's going on elsewhere and create music in their own vacuum.

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

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*!

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