Suzuka Nakamoto Quotes

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

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

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

I was a big fan of hardcore music growing up, black metal.

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.

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

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.

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

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

I went from being a kid-kid, listen to everything from The Beatles through Kiss, Peter Frampton, Jethro Tull classic rock, classic stuff into immediately, it seemed like, Iron Maiden and stuff like that. The first Iron Maiden record and then, obviously, the first Metallica record.

I like a lot of metal music. So that's really what I listen to a lot. Or I listen to a lot of kind of off the cuff, like I love artists like Santigold, or Gold Frapp. Yeah. Pelican. Yeah.

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

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

Me being the metal fan that I am, I like to listen to thrash metal to get me pumped - that kind of music will get your heart racing and ready for a crowd.

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.

Most radio stations suck as far as playing heavy-metal.

I really don't want to be associated with the low-brow Black Metal genre. If you want to know what I mean when I say that, just have a look at an Immortal video on YouTube or something. It's so dumb I don't know what to say, really, and it's so ridiculous, we can barely tell the difference between the real stuff and the parodies.

'Wages Of Sin' was the first metal album I ever bought, and it was love at first listen.

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

I definitely talk about my love of metal to audiences, and I sort of realized it was always natural and never, 'Well, I'm going to be the heavy-metal comedian.'

I love everything from Enya to Pantera.

Hellhammer is the best drummer ever, and Euronymous is a musical genius.

What we're doing is special and unique in its own way but still keeping it heavy. For me as a listener, part of the journey I'm on with Metallica, there's just a certain edge that needs to be there.

Anyone who likes Static-X will definitely like my solo record.