Pantera is a marquee band, with the most diehard fans. We sold over 20 million records without MTV or radio.
Guitar Player Magazine says Dick Dale is the father of Heavy Metal, blowing up 48 amplifiers, creating the first power amplifier.
We just done doing The Blessed Hellride tour and Ozzfest.
One thing about being in Metallica is I've always felt challenged.
My first gig with Metallica was at San Quentin State Penitentiary.
Metal fans have a connection. There is something there; just like the wrestling world, they are die hard about wrestling, and it's that passion that makes you enjoy what you do. That is why I go to metal shows; you watch these dudes on stage just shredding and letting loose. You can't help but love it.
You want to meet a bunch of really friendly people? Go to a Slayer concert. There'll be some real psychos there, but most of those people will take care of each other.
I've been a huge Megadeth fan for years.
I've always said that Pantera fans were the best in the world, and I truly meant that, and I still mean it.
As big as Metallica are, they're still not like a pop act. As big as they are, they're still not U2 or Lady Gaga. It's still underground.
Well, to be honest with you, yes there is and there is not. But as I am a fan of this kind of music as well as the rest of the guys naturally are - and being a fan, we kind of get pleased by our music as fans and as being in SLAYER.
Without Metallica, I wouldn't be doing what I am doing. I have every Metallica record, of course, and I would spend hours on drums in my parents' basement with the stereo behind me, cranking those records and learning Lars' drum beats, beat by beat.
I think there's a lot of death metal or doom metal dudes that somehow or another find a groove in it.
I never try and sound like Sabbath.
I used to do this big rant at the end of some gigs with Ben Folds Five. The band broke into this big heavy metal thing and I started as a joke to scream in a heavy metal falsetto. I found myself saying things like: Feel my pain, I am white, feel my pain.
My dad raised me on metal, but my first serious love was hip-hop.
I've actually got a Motley Crue channel on Pandora.
I don't need the new fan; I need the fan that has anxiety - parents are getting divorced, social problems, gender problems - I need them to come to the ultimate show, and they're going to get that at Knotfest.
Give metal a chance!
I always say, 'Hey, I'm in Metallica, but I wasn't on the Black Album.'
Anyone who likes Static-X will definitely like my solo record.
Metallica - they're so demonic, they're crazy, I don't know how they do it.
In 1999, we did a thing called the 'Reinventing The Steel' tour with Pantera, when I was still with them, and Slayer was part of that, and it was a great tour.
I named my son after Randy Rhoads - Rhoads Morello.
I like that Metallica has found a way to have these non-pedestrian arrangements but then the vocal melody is strong and intense. I've always appreciated that as a fan.
