M. Shadows Quotes

I love metal songs about metal. That's one of my favorite things. Nobody does that any more. Nobody sings about how metal they are, or about their fans, or about how crazy their pits are.

Black Sabbath invented heavy metal, in my opinion.

Metal never goes away. It drifts in and out, but the true fans are always there for it.

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

Some of the smartest people I know are metal fans.

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

The most metal? Some would say Slayer, but I think they're a dreadful band. Unbelievably boring. Terrible. Apparently it's not metal to say that, but it's a personal opinion.

Black-metal is my favourite. Mayhem are one of my favourite bands. But whenever Slayer comes to town, I am going to that show.

Hip-hop is all over the planet.

My favorite type of music to sing and to listen to, you know, rock. It's not always metal, but you know, half the time it is. Metal's cool, you know? Not everybody on 'American Idol' listens to metal.

Pantera revolutionized the sound and the approach to heavy metal. It's been regurgitated. Once you up the production on a product and not just the playing but the actual production, then it's going to up the ante.

I think metal and horror definitely go hand in hand. Even when you go to a horror convention and meet the fans, nine out of 10 times if they're not wearing some sort of horror shirt, they're wearing a shirt with a metal band on it.

People sometimes tell me that I don't talk or act or look like a metal fan. Well, what does a metal fan look like? I've found people from all walks of life who love metal.

They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should be an immediate abortion.

Japan has really great fans for all kinds of music. I think they're keeping metal alive.

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.

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.

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.

You'd be surprised the type of people who are into metal when you see them. Sometimes I'm even surprised, but it's cool. That's the reason it's still around.

We would like to continue to spread metal to everyone.

Hip-hop is huge in Canada, in Australia - everywhere.

We believe that many people who already like metal and those who like other genres will be accepting to this new type of metal.

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.