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I've been devoting quite a bit of my time to harmonic studies on my own, in libraries and places like that. I've found you've got to look back at the old things and see them in a new light.

Some of my favorite harmonics are located between frets. There are two really cool ones between the 2nd and 3rd frets that I use a lot.

Progress, this great heresy of decay.

Being used to scientific terminology and theory it was always natural for me to push this stuff into songs.

Harmonies are nice.

I never try and sound like Sabbath.

I love classical music; I love the way it's worked... all those chord sequences so I often use that sort of effect in my solos.

I, Master John Hus, in chains and in prison, now standing on the shore of this present life and expecting on the morrow a dreadful death, which will, I hope, purge away my sins, find no heresy in myself, and accept with all my heart any truth whatsoever that is worthy of belief.

I do some three-part harmonies on 'Throes of Rejection' and 'Hard Lines, Sunken Cheeks,' but I didn't go overboard with it.

Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don't fit in a very interesting way.