I think there's a lot of death metal or doom metal dudes that somehow or another find a groove in it.
The metalcore has been left behind. It's not something that any of us find enjoyment in listening to, so it's obviously not the direction we would write songs in.
Death metal has now become exclusively about being evil, Satanic and playing full speed ahead. It's not what I'm into at all.
Hard rock for me is AC/DC, Def Leppard, Tesla, Kiss. Metal tends to be louder, ruder, darker, like Judas Priest, Slayer, Iron Maiden.
When I listen to music, I don't want to hear about flowers. I like death and destruction.
Heavy music is really getting its due. With nu-metal fallen by the wayside, real metal has started to surface.
I am a closet metal fan.
When I was in high school, I listened to a lot of death metal bands.
Did you see him? I know the photo was grainy, but he looks like one of those death metal goth heads, or whatever they’re called. All dressed in black with long hair I took umbrage at my mother describing my boyfriend this way. John was the Lord of the Underworld. How else was he supposed to dress?
I played in a death-metal band. People either loved us or hated us. Or they thought we were OK.
For me, I'm way more at home in heavy metal than I am in classical music.
In almost every interview someone asks what does HIM stand for. I can't even remember our latest lie about that. When Hanson was hot, we said it means Hanson Is Murder. The name doesn't have a particular history. His Infernal Majesty was a totally different band. I think HIM derives from some death metal joke.
Slayer just goes from generation to generation to generation, because it's just so great.
To some people heavy metal is Motorhead and to others it's Judas Priest.
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.
When I first got involved in the underground metal scene in '82, '83, there were only about five or six major Death or Black Metal bands around. There were so many other bands that were inspirational, that really helped.
Black-metal is my favourite. Mayhem are one of my favourite bands. But whenever Slayer comes to town, I am going to that show.
'Angel Of Death' was a big problem. I remember getting a phone call after the album was done: Sony wasn't going to release it.
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.
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.
I'd like to imagine I won't end up in Hell, but I think I've done too much acid and listened to too much death metal to sit on a cloud next to God with angels floating above my head.
That's where I learned, basically, all my skills from the drumming that I do - most of my style comes straight from death metal.
I like thrash metal and black metal, stuff like that.
Hellhammer is the best drummer ever, and Euronymous is a musical genius.
