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We knew that we wanted to play heavy music but I hadn't gotten into melody and things like that.

We wanted to sit down and conceptually work out songs.

I tend to just do whatever I want on an album and try to make it work. I'm just adventurous. It's most exciting to be at the edge of your abilities. I want to see how far I can push things.

The stage sharpened my creative instrument and encouraged me to go deeper and try new things.

I'm the least-experimental writer. The idea of trying things just for the sake of pushing the envelope, that's never really interested me.

It's a massive undertaking putting an album together... It's not light weight at all.

For me, purity of movement wasn't enough. I needed expression, more intensity, more mind.

I certainly like it if the work is beautiful, but that's a surplus effect. I can only think about that after I consider how it's made.

What I found was that I thoroughly enjoyed the plumbing of experiment.

I think I started out trying to be very objective about the flow of the play.