Christina Grimmie Quotes

I was always searching for something bigger, faster and better, and Slayer came up with that.

Metal is easily my favorite thing - Exodus and Anthrax and Megadeth - so it just kind of organically came through in the standup act.

Hard rock for me is AC/DC, Def Leppard, Tesla, Kiss. Metal tends to be louder, ruder, darker, like Judas Priest, Slayer, Iron Maiden.

To some people heavy metal is Motorhead and to others it's Judas Priest.

I like thrash metal and black metal, stuff like that.

When I was a very young kid, the first music that really turned me on was a new wave of British heavy metal - big, dumb rock music. There was a band called Diamond Head - they were basically the band that inspired Metallica. But I also liked bands like Saxon and Iron Maiden.

It's a very empowering kind of music, heavy metal is.

There is one Metallica. We have many styles, it's called Metallica.

Venom was a band that strongly influenced the image and the idea behind Slayer.

The first 'Charlemagne' album is metal, of course, but what I sang was more symphonic.

We love not just Judas Priest music, but we love heavy metal and we love to get out on that stage every night and perform. It's a joy to be able to do it.

A lot of people are surprised by my love of heavy metal. I fell in love with heavy metal almost before any other genre. One of the first concerts I went to was a Donnington Monsters Of Rock concert.

I'm completely open about the fact that I don't love every genre of metal. I like what I like. It's got to have some vocal quality and some semblance of melody.

I hope everyone can appreciate the wonderful aspects of metal music.

If I was to play any song for anybody asking, 'What is metal about?' I'd just play 'Master of Puppets.' The progressions and the bridge are brilliant.

Even when metal was on the radio, it was always the watered down stuff. There were only a couple real metal bands - Metallica is one - that broke through.

I listened to Korn and Limp Bizkit and that whole era of heavy music.

We had no clue what heavy metal was. We were like: 'What's that?'

Starting in junior high school, through high school, I was very into metal or black metal and death metal specifically.

I was a total metal-head as a teen. I still love it, too.

Heavy music is really getting its due. With nu-metal fallen by the wayside, real metal has started to surface.

I was always very into heavy metal, and heavy metal is full of emotion and extremes, and I think that's the same in dance music.

I just like heavy music in general - from heavy rock and heavy metal and heavy rap and heavy everything. I've always been attracted to it.

Metal never dies. Sometimes it's not on the radio and sometimes it's not at the forefront, but heavy rock or metal, or whatever the hell you want to call it, has always been around and will always be around.

I think Slayer is a funky band.