We love doing these kinds of big package tours, because it gives you the chance to play in front of a lot of people who might not normally hear your music. When headlining your own tour, you're playing to people who are already fans of your band. On a huge tour like this, you're reaching a huge new audience every night.

We hooked up with Steve because we liked his resume and what we heard of his past work. It was a stretch for us to be working with him and a stretch for him to be working with a band like us, because he'd never been in the studio with anyone as aggressive and heavy as we are.