UN: Null is one of the most barbaric debuts I've heard in a long time. Would you say that you guys had a pretty concrete vision for the bands sound right from the start?

Sacha: Yeah, Danny and I had some pretty in-depth conversations about music we liked, why we liked it, and how we wanted to apply those concepts to this band. I demoed a few ideas at home on a 4-track, presented that to him, and we picked out the ideas that we wanted to keep going with.

We showed them to Leon and Joe, who were both our first picks for guitar and bass, and then started jamming and writing based on those initial ideas. So yeah, I would say that the whole process was pretty calculated from the beginning.

UN: One thing that definitely stands out with the band is that even though it is noisy, there is a lot of structure. Would you say it's important to keep things listenable even when things are chaotic?

Sacha: Sure, when mapping out a song, I like to take where you're going and where you're coming from into consideration, thinking about what hits you and how it hits. Those are the things I like to hear in music, so yeah, structure and dynamics are important to me personally.

UN: While Intronaut is more diverse, one influence I seem to pick up on is Coalesce. Would you say that they were an influence on the band's sound at all?

Sacha: Coalesce is definitely one of the twenty bajillion influences on our writing, but not really one of the biggest. Danny and I like them and that kind of hardcore or metal from that era, but I'll bet Leon and Joe haven't even heard them before. Someone else said my vocals sound like that guy's, so it's funny you said that.

UN: It sounds a little cheesy, but you could almost call the band's sound a musical journey. Would you say that pretty much anything goes with the band musically?

Sacha: That is a little cheesy, but I guess it’s a good analogy since most of our songs are longer than an average song, along with the different moods or "places along the way" that we'll touch on in one.

UN: Is Intronaut going to have a rigorous touring schedule? I know that Leon is in Exhumed, and I'm not sure if any of the rest of the band is involved in other bands that would take up your time.

Sacha: Well we're planning to release our full-length by June or July at the latest, and we're basically leaving the rest of the year after that open to tour, maybe even beyond that if it makes sense. We really do want to get out there as much as possible. Leon isn't in Exhumed anymore, and Danny quit Uphill Battle. Those two play in Phobia right now, but that won't really get in the way of our touring schedule. Joe and I are both in this band only as of right now. Intronaut is the top priority for all four of us, so we're ready to go.

UN: When do you think we'll be able to expect a full-length release? Will it continue along the same lines as Null? Will Goodfellow be releasing it as well?

Sacha: We've got the studio time booked for the middle of April, so we're hoping to get a release date in June or early July at the latest, like I said, and yeah, Goodfellow is doing it again. The new songs are still in the same vein, I guess we're just pushing certain aspects harder in certain places. It's sounding like a bigger and badder Intronaut.

UN: Do you think it's easier to be in a diverse metal band these days? In the past it was fairly cut and dry what a metal band could and couldn't do musically. A lot of these walls have been broken down.

Sacha: I think its just natural for new things to rise and fall in popularity over time, and I think there are just more fans of heavy music right now than there were like, ten years ago or something. Over time, people experiment and adapt certain things that they are influenced by, and at some point you have a bunch of people inspired or influenced by a certain perspective in music. That's pretty much how new subgenres pop up I think. It's like evolution or whatever. Death metal, prog rock, the recently popular hardcore verse/poppy chorus thing, whatever, they were all "more extreme" or "more diverse" when they first popped up, but now it can be just as generic sounding as elevator music to some people, and those people are going to go for whatever's fresh and stimulating.

UN: Do you think that California has always been a bit of a hotbed for noisy and eclectic heavy music? Everything from grindcore to hardcore has come from the state, and power violence pretty much originated out of the scene.

Sacha: Yeah, power violence and all that was HUGE here in the mid to late nineties when I started going to shows a lot. So many awesome bands, all the Slap A Ham and Pessimiser kind of stuff, that was when I really started getting into going to shows and buying records and stuff. I must have seen Dystopia twenty times or something. Maybe I'm exaggerating. Anyway, they're still my favorite band ever as far as all that stuff goes. Phobia too, and Mindrot, who have since become Eyes Of Fire, a couple of them at least. There are some good thrash/power violence type bands in LA still, but I'm just not as into going to every show anymore, so I'm sort of out of touch. Anyway, I forgot where I was going with this, but yeah there have been and there still are tons of awesome bands who have come from here, not just power violence bands.