"Immediately, I was drawn towards metal; I'm a metal head, shall we say, since my early 20s. I grew up in a very strict Pentecostal christian family so my access to music was very limited. When I moved out on my own, the first thing I got into was heavier music. Moving to New Orleans, I realized that there was a huge metal scene here. There are some very influential bands that I used to listen to that I didn't know were from New Orleans; bands that play such good, heavy rock and roll. When yo...