Musically, I Didn't Relate To

I Like Being Swept Up In Weather And Observing It As Something Beautiful And Giant. It Makes You Feel So Minute. The Only Thing As Big As That Are Your Thoughts About It, Which Can Expand Exponentially While Your Physical Self Is Just Trapped. It's A Pretty Awesome Feeling, In The Original Sense Of The Word.

I Wrote The Album [metals] In The Fall. In About Four Months, I Went From Zero To Finished. It Usually Takes Forever.

Probably, On Some Subconscious Level, I Was Motivated By Not Wanting To Spoon-feed Any Similar Flavors.

Musically, I Didn't Relate To Berlin. There Seemed To Be A Lot Of Machine Music Made There - I Don't Think I Saw A Stringed Instrument In Two Years.

Gatekeeper Was Sort Of My First Attempt To Put A Little Bit Of A Frame And Boundaries Around Songwriting, And Try To Figure Out A Way To Approach It That Had A Sort Of End Result In Mind. I Havent Written Many Like That.