When you're trying to free yourself from a religion that has been ingrained in you since childhood, it's more like ripping out your veins and tendons.

- Mat Mcnerney

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…

- Mat Mcnerney

I think when you have a band that are so separate and isolated then you have to know each others styles and characters quite well.

- Mat Mcnerney

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…

- Mat Mcnerney

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

- Mat Mcnerney

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

- Mat Mcnerney

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

- Mat Mcnerney

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…

- Mat Mcnerney

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.

- Mat Mcnerney