Shawn Crahan Quotes

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

I've always liked the heavier stuff. I've always loved Tool and System of a Down, Korn and Nine Inch Nails.

I like Jay-Z, 50 Cent and Common. But I like the underground stuff like Young Jeezy, Black Rob and Shine. I also love heavy metal like Slipknot and Pantera, It's very intense stuff.

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

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

I'm not a big punk fan, but I love a good, solid screamer.

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.

People lump us into the nu-metal category, and there might be a hint of that stuff, but if you really listen to a nu-metal band and then listen to Slipknot, it's so apples and oranges that it's retarded.

When I think of nu-metal, I think of Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, Slipknot and even Chevelle - those types of bands.

I like what Dumbfoundead and Awkwafina are doing, but I think I'm just trying to do something different.

Babymetal's music is kind of - no one else creates this kind of music. When Babymetal first started, we wanted to give the impression of like, 'What the heck?!'

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

Strapping Young Lad is a vehicle for me to be wild and extroverted and ridiculous. It gives me the chance to say, 'Look at me. I'm a heavy metal guy. I'm Rob Halford or Bruce Dickinson or whoever.'

When I first heard Korn, they blew me away, and I've been a fan ever since.

What I do is a bit broader in scope than a heavy metal band like Iron Maiden, Motorhead, ACDC and so on.

On their debut, Korn brought a new definition of metal that was a game changer.

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

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

I think that, as well as Strapping Young Lad kind of having the name for themselves based on brutality and aggression, I think there's also something to be said to the fact that every Strapping record is different. They're all different.

Progressive metal is one of the hardest styles of music to pull off live, especially while providing a tasteful show.

There is nothing whatsoever friendly about Slipknot. Corey may have a singing voice, but it's always been done with so much passion that it's always been brutal.

Arch Enemy is a female-fronted metal band, but so is Delain. They don't sound alike at all. The only thing they both are are metal bands, but the style within metal is so massively different that it doesn't really say much whether there's a girl singing or not. So it's really not so important.

I think EDM and metal and rock have been together already for a long time. Bands like Nine Inch Nails, Linkin Park, the Prodigy - they all have influences from both.

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