I'm still in the Midwest, but I'm in Columbus, Ohio, so I'm three and a half hours away from everybody. That's one of the reasons we're not as active….

I was young, but to me that was underground music. I had never heard anything like Venom or any of that stuff growing up in Louisville. That was sort….

There are five of us. We've all played in various bands together, in different combinations. I know that Todd [Cook] and Tony [Bailey] are my favorit….

People like a story that has a lot of blood, sweat and tears. But I don't think the Slint story really has that..

There are so many things that kept forcing metal back down to the underground. It survives everywhere on the planet..

When I was younger and bands were formed that way, out of friendships rather than anything else. It wasn't like we put up want ads..

We aren't trying to make poetry or anything beautiful. It's just a rock show. We just want to enjoy playing loud. That's just about it..

In my entire life I never set out to do anything ground-breaking or pioneering, and I'm not going to start anytime soon..

You can go to any small town in America, there's going to be a metal fan there. You can't say that about post-rock..

Now since I've gotten back into it, I've been listening to a lot more of the 1990s death metal type stuff..

We were pretty normal - suburban kids having a good time playing in bands. We were silly. We weren't dark, intense, humorless people. Humor was one o….

I stayed a kid for a pretty long time, and the logistics of being in a band, I did not take seriously at all..

On a musical level, I do find it rewarding. It's not like I want to blow my brains out while I'm playing these songs from so long ago. I am still sur….

I was into the music, but the idea of showing up places on time or having to tell people when you're not going to be somewhere - that just didn't eve….

We made basement practice songs.To have them presented in such a huge fashion today - like at Primavera, where it's thousands of people in a festival….

I'm looking for anything interesting in the guitar playing, songwriting, artwork, and production. If you look at the stack of CDs on my desk and in m….

The thing I like about the band [Dead Child] is that there's no pretense. We aren't even trying to be artists or poets..

I think the majority of the people in the band still play in other bands, because we're not that active. But for me, it's the only thing I want to do….

It was pretty common to form bands that only lasted a few years. Slint was my favorite band that I was in at the time, and I didn't realize that I wa….

Punk came along and grunge made guitar solos uncool..

When we woke up every morning, one of our things was, "Let's go put a new sign in the back window of the van." Those are the different signs we had u….