Before the 90s, black metal wasn't a selling tool [and didn't] have money behind it. Then it became a pop sensation. Now that the record industry has collapsed and started to rot, things are livening up a bit again.

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.

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

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 want people to feel like they'd overdosed on too much candy.

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

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.