What do people from around the world think of the North American metal scene?
SD: When we tell people we’re from Canada, they say “Rush.” That’s what people think of, Rush or Voivod. I think generally there’s a lot of knowledge in these countries about the metal that has come out of North America and Europe because these are for them the birthplaces of metal and these are kind of the strongholds of metal. So originally through trading tapes and sticking stuff in the mail and now through the internet, this music has spread throughout the world. What do they think of it? I think they think it’s pretty great. But what’s happening now is these young people want to make metal of their own, and now they’re starting to say “We want to do metal that has some influence from our own culture” where they can bring there own lyrical themes and issues into the music and traditional instruments. I think the west has had a huge influence, but things are starting to change now. A lot of the countries you visited seem to delve more into the extreme sub-genres like death or black
