David Draiman Quotes

I was mostly influenced by bands like Black Sabbath and Judas Priest - Metallica's 'Kill 'Em All' was also a hell of an inspiration.

We've never been shy to admit that Metallica is a huge influence in our lives and on our music.

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

If we're compared to Metallica, the greatest metal band in the world, I think that's actually a pretty damn good compliment.

I think Slayer is a funky band.

The 'Black Album' was my real first introduction to Metallica. I was, like, 12 or 13 at the time. We were just getting into music, and I liked that album a lot, but it didn't necessarily change my life. But when I started picking up all the other Metallica records, 'Master of Puppets' was the one to me that stuck out with its songwriting.

Without Metallica, we wouldn't have a lot of the bands that we have now.

Slayer just goes from generation to generation to generation, because it's just so great.

Metallica is my favorite band.

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

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

The power chords in 'Come Sail Away' were super heavy to me as a kid. Metal? No. Hard rock? At times, for sure.

Metallica is a wonderful key to have on my key ring. I can go anywhere - it's great.

Metallica - they're so demonic, they're crazy, I don't know how they do it.

My favorite bands are the Allman Brothers and Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Rush is one of the common denominators in our band as far as a band that everybody loves and grew up with and was a big influence.

Without Metallica, I wouldn't play the way that I do.

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.

Metallica is a big, huge influence and inspiration. That's who Babymetal aspires to become some day.

I've often talked about metal being the underdog in rock n' roll music.

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.

For me, 'Far Beyond Driven' just had an oomph that kicked it over the edge and just pure aggression. And I always appreciated that.

In the 70s, what thrash was there? Punk came on, and that was cool. But there was no thrash. There were dinosaur big bands, and that was great. Those were my influences.

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

I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude.