I don't want people to feel like they'd overdosed on too much candy..

I do try to pay attention to new bands and what's happening within the scene. I try to make sure I give everything a listen - even if I loathe it..

Ultimately I want my metal in a bar and not an art gallery..

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….

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!.

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

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*!.

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 dissect….

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

I think Nouveau Gloaming is a classic black metal record and I would hate to be a band that kept trying to recapture the same essence, but failing, f….

I think there's a certain limit to the number of times you can raise hairs on the back of peoples' heads before it gets kind of saccharin..

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

Bands are more willing to take risks and we don't need this big label over us anymore telling us what it means to sell records and get into magazines..

I think there was a brief period where Norwegian bands were evolving and that was an interesting time where it seemed like a band like Darkthrone was….

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….

I don't like bands who would play music like Code. I mean I hate most bands with emotional singing parts (I adore metal singing like Iron Maiden thou….

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 grea….

You never leave a band like DHG. There's very few who are insane enough to be a part of something like that and you just can't take it out of you tha….

I don't think there's anything remotely "new" or "experimental" about any modern metal bands..

I don't bring any ideology or barriers with me into my music..