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.

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

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.

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.

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.