Doom is thinking-man's heavy, something you climb into and not only discover the riffs and depth of the music, but also you also climb into yourself …

- Mike Scheidt

Doom hits the same frequencies that polytonic Buddhist chanting does, which is very hypnotic and makes time relative when listening.

- Mike Scheidt

People who understand Doom don't blink an eye at song lengths.

- Mike Scheidt

Metal is more popular than it ever has been, every expression of it.

- Mike Scheidt

It's weird for me to come from the 80s when metal was so uncool and see how far it has come.

- Mike Scheidt

I find a very guilty pleasure in dark themes and vibes, and finding where the transcending nature of awareness meets this darkness.

- Mike Scheidt

The lyrics are critical of dogmatic belief, too, as I see it in many lifestyles and philosophy religious or otherwise.

- Mike Scheidt

In Zen Buddhism, "The Great Cessation" is a term that points to the abandoning of the effort to define one's self by any outer definition and to give…

- Mike Scheidt