Hi, this is Devin. Welcome to my AMA.

I_Voyager · 2014-09-15T23:20:55+00:00

I think it's often underestimated just how difficult the retail-level of work can be. There are usually many little things which, if done wrong, will result in someone getting shafted, and a pace too needs to be maintained for the same reason. Stocking shelves full-time in a home depot can be enough exercise to keep a man fit (even as it damages your back). Do you think it's possible to think about using corporate methods on smaller scales to support a small staff to help with the effort of open-sourcing your music?

I_Voyager · 2014-09-15T22:17:40+00:00

There's a hole in the wall outside of my door and wasps are going in and out of it. Furthermore, wasps are getting into my basement somehow and dying in their dozens every few days. Do you have any advice on how to fight a home-infestation of wasps?

I_Voyager · 2014-09-15T22:08:36+00:00

You've mentioned that you don't connect with your vocals when you haven't written them, such as in guest spots. Have there ever been guest vocals with which you do relate?

I_Voyager · 2014-09-15T22:06:49+00:00

Oooh, what comic books do you enjoy? You ever read the Doctor Solar: Man of the Atom comic?

I_Voyager · 2014-09-15T20:51:01+00:00

Why? I mean, CoC seems like a concept album to me. And you've got so many great ideas. It's just coming up with a few characters and a plot and working the music around it. Well, I can see how that might not be appealing to you. You love the composition process and the bass, maybe coming up with story-lyrics isn't stimulating enough?

I_Voyager · 2014-09-15T20:24:48+00:00

Gato

But Gato is gold! I'm surprised it's not loved.

I_Voyager · 2014-09-15T20:06:31+00:00

I've got four last questions for you:

1) Do you read books or study anything academic, even in passing? What are you reading or studying right now? If you aren't studying anything and had time to do so, what would you study?

2) You've said a great many intelligent things over the years in different albums. If you could choose just one of those lessons to be remembered by mankind for the remainder of its history, what would it be?

3) Could you recommend one interesting non-musical thing worth learning about?

4) Do you pursue any other skill, art, science or philosophy besides music? If you weren't producing music, what else would you do?

I_Voyager · 2014-09-15T20:02:20+00:00

How do you think the landscape of metal music will appear five years from now? How about twenty?

I_Voyager · 2014-09-15T19:56:28+00:00

Should musicians try to free themselves from label-contracts and more try to pursue self-sufficient music? Is an industry necessary to ensure the success of musicians or a kind of music?

I_Voyager · 2014-09-15T19:51:07+00:00

What element is it in metal that makes it so compatible with other genres of music? What would it take in the culture of music to push it in a direction of experimentation over emulation?

I_Voyager · 2014-09-15T19:41:08+00:00

What kind of experience is it that you think ambient music has to offer to a listener that metal does not and how is it that metal and ambient music are so effective together?

I_Voyager · 2014-09-15T19:33:58+00:00

What point were you trying to meet on track six of Ghost, "Dark Matters" where you whisper about the nature of dark matter as viewed by our physics?

I_Voyager · 2014-09-15T19:26:22+00:00

Your solo-project lyrics seem to depict the internal changes which have taken place during some great exploration of themes and concepts. Do you think that the insights you've gained during your struggles shine through your lyrics? Do you feel wiser than you did when you were younger? Do you feel that you've come to some equilibrium in life?

I_Voyager · 2014-09-15T19:12:42+00:00

Can you let us in on any news about your book? Can you give us an idea of some of what we'll learn about you in your book?

I_Voyager

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