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.
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.
I think there's a lot of death metal or doom metal dudes that somehow or another find a groove in it.
I could do Rust In Peace again, but I don't want to. I could have followed that formula but, God, why? I would have to have done so much heroin and cocaine - and I wasn't going to. Not if I'm paying for it!
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.
We're definitely a metal band. We push a lot of boundaries. But at the core we're a metal band.
'Far Beyond Driven' was a record that was probably ahead of its time, and to this day, it still sounds as fresh as just about any other band that's out there. It was a record that was pushed to another level.
I love 'Dogman' by King's X and Living Colour's 'Stain.'
Metallica - they're so demonic, they're crazy, I don't know how they do it.
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.
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.
The first 'Charlemagne' album is metal, of course, but what I sang was more symphonic.
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.
I was always very into heavy metal, and heavy metal is full of emotion and extremes, and I think that's the same in dance music.
And I was a kid from L.A. and I just wanted to play thrash metal.
As long as it says Metallica on the record it's Metallica.
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.
Without Metallica, I wouldn't play the way that I do.
I could be just as happy playing a Beatles song as I am when I'm thrashing out the double bass stuff with Adrenaline Mob.
When I was in high school, I listened to a lot of death metal bands.
The power, the complexity, the aggression - there's so many things that would attract anyone to Metallica. I think that they are the prime example of a metal band.
