Our day-to-day lives recording and touring aren't that different from those of Metallica, even though the perceived worldview is totally different. So that can be a difficult thing to reconcile sometimes.

Being in Portland is cool. I have some good friends here and the general feeling might be a little more welcoming.

The notes sound like they're coming from inside your mind... It was the closest thing to a psychedelic experience I've ever had.

I've thought about doing a subscription service, where people pre-pay and then we send them 12"s as they're finished, with one song on each side. That would be really fun. But we'll need a significant time off from touring to be able to fulfill that.

The simpler songs are just done when the lyric has been stated; the more complex or band-oriented stuff can go in a million directions.

We're going out to play all the places where people might want to see us, because next time we might not just think about hitting every market or how we can make the most money.

I do read the records reviews but more out of curiosity than anything else, I feel like we know what we want to do next time regardless of how this one is received, good or bad, so it won't really make much of a difference, which wasn't the case on the first album, where both the positive and negative criticism or reactions did catch us off guard and inevitably colored the creation of this one.