HBI: So Skull Fist was nominated for a Juno Award in the new ‘Heavy Metal’ category. Does that mean anything for the band? And has it helped the band with promotion or anything of the sort?
ZS: Honestly, I don’t think that’s the route we want to take. Not that I didn’t care. It was kinda flattering. So in the town I come from; a small city in Northern Canada called Porcupine – right next to Timmins which is where Shania Twain comes from. I had emailed the newspaper and the radio station. I was like, the only person who was doing something from that town. I had emailed them so many times over the years because you know, I wanted my mom to read an interview with me in the newspaper of her town. I emailed them so many times. Never got an answer from them. When we got the Juno nomination, they emailed me and said, “hey, we want to do an interview.” I totally said that in the interview, I called them out on it – “you guys are dicks, man! You guys are dicks!” So that was the thing. It was kinda cool though. I didn’t go to the actual awards, although the other guys went. There was a red carpet rolled out.