There are many ways to portray darkness and evil and it isn't all in being mean and tough..

I don't think it's "true" to sit and play old school heavy metal just so that you can send it to Fenriz or get a pat on the back from the guys you ad….

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

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..

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

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..

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

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

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….

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*!.

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….

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

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….

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

I loathe most crossover music. Yet I like to think when it comes to Code it's something different..

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..

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..

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….