I have a lot of people in the business that are friends and Roy Z came highly recommended from my friends and I had a lunch with him in the spring of 98. I just felt instinctively he was the best guy for the job to make a record with. Yes, sales do matter.
Sales represent the interest level of the fans - that's the important thing.
Although, it's out of your hands to a great extent. All you do is make your best possible record and give everbody the information you can about the release of the record. And then its just a case of wait and see. But I feel very confident that the metal fans will support this record because I just feel it's my best metal record since my PainKiller release. The opening track, it says a lot for me, musically, lyrically, vocally.