Metal Genre Quotes

Pantera is a marquee band, with the most diehard fans. We sold over 20 million records without MTV or radio.

People think of Jews as the Woody Allen stereotype, the nebbishy kind of thing, but that's not the kind of Jews I know. I know plenty of Israelis and plenty of tough guys that are Jewish. So, I think it makes sense that Jews play metal.

I think there's a lot of death metal or doom metal dudes that somehow or another find a groove in it.

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

We're definitely a metal band. We push a lot of boundaries. But at the core we're a metal band.

When I first became involved in Babymetal, I honestly hadn't known what metal music was about so everything was new to me.

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.

I played in a death-metal band. People either loved us or hated us. Or they thought we were OK.

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

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

If I was to play any song for anybody asking, 'What is metal about?' I'd just play 'Master of Puppets.' The progressions and the bridge are brilliant.

I think it's a misconception that metal's about anger, obviously.

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

I have been metal all my life, only I did not know about it. The people in this album (Charlemagne) and I, share the same values.

I love contrast in music. Being inspired by classical, actually - in high school especially - classical and metal both, I remember having this cool realization that they are really similar. It's just different instrumentation.

Lately, I've been listening to some jazz albums. I love the new Pat Metheny album. John Coltrane. I still like good metal, though!

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.

Before we joined BABYMETAL, we weren't that familiar with metal, but we learned a lot from Metallica. Watching their shows and even meeting them, they were really nice to us.

I kind of blew the doors off the myth that all heavy metalheads are Neanderthal and very limited in their ability to take on subject matter of any human depth.

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

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.

Black Sabbath invented heavy metal, in my opinion.

It's a band singing on how metal should be played, the effect it has on the band and its listeners.

We are one of the last heavy metal bands. Iron Maiden has always been unique.

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.