25 Quotes by David Pajo

As I got older, it turned into hardcore punk. I started getting into more aggressive music.

You can go to any small town in America, there’s going to be a metal fan there. You can’t say that about post-rock.

We just have to plan everything in advance and concentrate it so that we get everything done in time. It’s not as laidback as I wish it could be.

I was into Metallica when they first started, like when Kill Em All came out.

I’m still in the Midwest, but I’m in Columbus, Ohio, so I’m three and a half hours away from everybody. That’s one of the reasons we’re not as active as we’d like to be – it’s an expensive chore for me to go down there just to talk or something.

When I was really young, I was really into Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden and those kinds of bands.

Most people found out about Slint in the mid or late 90s, but we were an ’80s band. We started in 1986 and broke up at the end of 1990.

As far as specific bands from the 90s death metal era, I love Death, Carcass, Possessed, Morbid Angel, Gorguts, Autopsy, Atheist, etc.

It was pretty common to form bands that only lasted a few years. Slint was my favorite band that I was in at the time, and I didn’t realize that I was bummed out about it until quite a while later.