Johnny Christ Quotes

I took the frets out of my bass after I was getting into jazz a lot and I wanted to have that upright sound.

There's real potency in metal. Metal fans love metal as if it's a nation they would fight for. It's not diluted by pop culture.

The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal.

The guitar influence that affected my songwriting came from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal.

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

For me, Gothic is something from my youth, when I had a heavy metal phase.

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.

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

Give metal a chance!

I wasn't that wild about that. I told them basically if they were really going to want to bring back heavy metal to a program on MTV, then they are really going to have to get in touch with what real heavy metal is.

We were lumped into the Lite Metal radio bands.

I've always been a fan of the '80s and, particularly, hair metal.

Before I even started listening to rap music, I was really into metal and punk.

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

I think it's not only Babymetal's sound but also the fact that we dance to metal that represents a new way of expressing this genre of music.

In the beginning I thought that metal was something scary, but I learned how thoughtful and amazing metal is. I'm so honored to be a part of it.

No... I don't like Slayer.

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.

To me, a lot people really get wrapped up in the technical side of metal and what's metal and what's not and more double-kick and more blast beats and more technicality, but for me, I'm a song person. So I think you can write good songs in any type of style of rock and any type of style of metal, and that's kind of what I'm a fan of.

When we started, I was just having fun with it I didn't even know about doing it for a living. It was a new style of music, a combo of punk and metal.

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

Rock and roll promotes a primitive and destructive lifestyle. Metal can be seen as a subgenre of rock and roll, and thus, metal is not much better.

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

We are a metal band, period. To me, the 'nu' part infers some sort of a rap influence.

During our formative years, it was all about, 'What did Metallica do?' and 'How do we do that?' and then you try and find an identity of your own, but they're still... They were the pioneers and the trailblazers.