Words matter. These are the best Metal Quotes from famous people such as Yui Mizuno, Hideo Kojima, Andrew W.K., Amy Lee, Bill Ward, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
We had no clue what heavy metal was. We were like: ‘What’s that?’
I don’t like necessarily that people think ‘Metal Gear’ defines me. I love ‘Metal Gear,’ don’t get me wrong. But as a creator, I really want to work on other projects, including new games.
Starting in junior high school, through high school, I was very into metal or black metal and death metal specifically.
When I was in high school, I listened to a lot of death metal bands.
I don’t know about all this ‘speed metal’ and everything… It’s all metal to me.
Given the weight of an Oscar statuette, one made out of solid gold would be worth $219,000. That twinkle in a winner’s eye would be more than just a realization that he or she is a decent actor; it would be the joy of holding a chunk of metal worth a new Lamborghini.
The energy of the metal is what I’ve always loved and the energy I do on stage with standup, I mean, I’m not Metallica, but I’ve always extremely attracted and driven by that energy and the thought-provoking lyrics and drive. That’s an attitude every standup show I go in. I go in to crush your face.
I love being on the road; I love traveling. I love interacting with the fans and friends and fans and metal on the way.
We’ve taken Japan’s ‘idol’ music genre of pretty girls singing and dancing and added ‘kawaii metal,’ which is totally new.
When it comes to influences, we are influenced not just by Japanese and overseas metal acts, but J-pop acts too. One Japanese rock band we’re particularly fond of is Seikima-II. We were attracted by their brand of devil imagery and of course, their high-quality musicianship.
If my skin is feeling a little dry, I use La Mer face cream. I also love their Eye Concentrate. It goes on with this little metal ball thing that’s very refreshing.
I’m a big techno fan. I love that thumping kick drum. We heard a version of ‘Lost in Love’ and it was thrash metal. It sounded cool!
I think it’s not only Babymetal’s sound but also the fact that we dance to metal that represents a new way of expressing this genre of music.
When I was 14, I thought I looked terrible. I wore these typical Slavic shoes with metal bottoms so you could always hear me coming and this really ugly princess skirt and blouse with the top button closed. I had a boy haircut, a baby face covered with pimples, and a really big nose.
Once, while exploring Seville Cathedral, I walked into a metal bar and gashed my head.
If you are a pop band, don’t say you’re a metal band. Poison and Warrant were about as metal as the Backstreet Boys.
Obviously, there’s not as much flex in a wood bat as in a metal bat, so I’m still trying to adjust to that.
Folk music has been our popular music… There is a myth that youngsters only like heavy metal or rock music, but that’s not true.
Imagining themes that are specific to coating lines, shapes, shades, thoughts, the decoration of our homes and the objects of utility or pure pleasure, adapting its purpose in a material-specific way to metal or wood, marble or fabric – it is, without any doubt, an absorbing occupation.
I’m not Christian. I didn’t meet Jesus. I met something that looked like it had come out of a ‘Heavy Metal’ comic.
If you write a country song, and it’s the best song you’ve ever written but throw it out because you’re a metal band, you’d be an idiot.
It’s perhaps easier to say what prog rock isn’t than what it is: it’s not three-minute pop songs, it’s not straightforward rock, metal, blues or jazz, but can have elements of all them and more. It’s a form that is on the boundaries of many different forms, that is open to all sorts of influences.
Short track is like metal rock. You kind of always got to be on your toes.
The most common power chord in metal is the root/fifth, but root/third diads are also worth checking out.
I see metal as really connected to tribalism. Like, even the way we dress and the way we love the music and are part of a movement, it’s like we’re part of a certain tribe, and we’re proud of that.
I ended up buying a restaurant. Already we had invested in a gas station and a metal products plant.
Venom was a joke in the ’80s, their heavy metal music sucked big time, and I really have no interest in them – not then, not now.
Heavy metal is the enemy. Everybody but me keeps going back and forth between metal and punk, but I’m narrow-minded and a purist. I’d never mess with it.
We are one of the last heavy metal bands. Iron Maiden has always been unique.
To some people heavy metal is Motorhead and to others it’s Judas Priest.
I loathe and detest heavy metal.
I could see hunks of metal and rocks sticking out of my legs.
I think it’s beautiful to be able to cover yourself in metal. I love the color and the way it reflects. But it is also a protection.
In high school the dream was to go on a stand-up tour and front a heavy metal band. I always had that in the back of my head.
Being on Ozzfest has been a great way for us to break out and show metal fans that we have a heavy side.
When I was a kid, I was obsessed with heavy metal, Van Halen, Motley Crue. The older I got, my tastes widened. I always felt an attraction to the attitudes of punk; also punk filmmakers, like Richard Kern.
I think the minute you mention death, people run for the hills – unless it’s heavy metal. People do not like death.
A lot of the metal bands that were around when Metallica put out ‘The Black Album,’ now they’re playing clubs, and Metallica is playing stadiums.
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.
Metal needs to be exposed to more people, so it’s good for rock if there’s bigger bands.
Metal never goes away. It drifts in and out, but the true fans are always there for it.
When I was a kid, I saw ‘Heavy Metal’ the movie, and my mind was blown. I loved the idea that you could have all these different stories in different styles that are linked together.
When we talk about ‘Firepower,’ we’re talking about the fire and power of heavy metal to prevail and endure difficulties. ‘Children of the Sun,’ is, to some extent, about climate change and the ecosystem… We want to deliver a message to the people without being too much of a teacher.
I don’t even think I was quite a year old. My mother was maybe seven months pregnant with my little brother. I was sucked out of her arms, and she landed 75 yards away from our trailer and had a ruptured disc. The tornado set me down on top of this pile of corrugated lumber and scrap metal.
I never wanted to do rap-rock because it had been done loads in the ’90s, but I love hip-hop and I love metal.
The hairstyles of most Heavy Metal bands are pretty horrendous.
Heavy metal to me is this cartoon idiom where people have their hair stuck-up all over the place dyed blonde with black roots showing through and Spandex trousers and chains around their neck, eating raw meat on stage. It just doesn’t mean anything to me.
I have a metal plate in my head, and can pop my shoulder and pop it back.
On Sirius, I can find anything I want. They have about four or five different metal channels, rock channels; there’s a whole Elvis channel.
As long as the attitude is to only show the sheet metal, then automobile advertising will continue to be wretched.
In grade one and two, I was definitely into heavy metal and Satanic rock music, bands that had attributes that were quote-unquote ‘Satanic,’ even things like the Rolling Stones with ‘Their Satanic Majesties Request’ and ‘Sympathy for the Devil,’ but also like Motley Crue and Kiss and Alice Cooper.
They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that’s the case, there should be an immediate abortion.
It’s about putting the pedal to the metal and not asking any questions at all and just going for it.
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.
So with ‘Ascent,’ one of the things I wanted to do was not make it too remote from the reader, for it to be engaged with the human side and not just to be about the cold metal of planes and spacecraft.
I’m a standup comedian who can’t drive. I have never learned. I don’t trust my hand-eye coordination. You’re looking at someone who once dropped a cricket ball on to his own head during a routine catching practice; I don’t think it’s a great idea to have me in control of a high-speed metal death robot.
I like music more balanced between the voice and the guitar and the percussion. I don’t like heavy metal.
With Pantera, we lived through so many trend-of-the-day situations – when grunge was huge, we were still a heavy metal band; when hip-hop started getting incorporated into metal, we stuck to our guns and remained a heavy metal band very purposefully.
I was a big fan of hardcore music growing up, black metal.
On Etsy, you can’t resell new goods you weren’t involved in making, whereas on eBay and Amazon, that is more than welcome – everything from dishwashers to XBoxes, curling irons, espresso machines, and metal detectors.
My own personal melting pot has no room for Hendrix or heavy metal, filled as it is with European ancestors such as Debussy, Sibelius, Bartok, Lutoslawski, and Ligeti.
I tend to keep my love of heavy metal under the radar.
First and foremost, just to work alongside an icon like Rob Halford, the Metal God, was absolutely surreal.
The Southern California arena rock, hair metal, laidback hippie garden culture – for many growing up in the ’70s and ’80s, none of it made us who we were like Lou Reed did.
When I started, the music I would be drawn to would be heavy metal and new wave like Black Sabbath – things that seemed more shocking – and then, of course, eventually I would find bands and writers who were laying things out very clearly and whose words felt very sharp to the touch and sharp to your feelings.
Since graduation, I have measured time in 4-by-5-inch pieces of paper, four days on the left and three on the right. Every social engagement, interview, reading, flight, doctor’s appointment, birthday and dry-cleaning reminder has been handwritten between metal loops.
I will champion this forever – that the rock and metal scene is absolutely the most inclusive, amazing, supportive community that I’ve ever been a part of.
Heavy metal is immortal, but we’re not.
Bent metal is worse than bent wood and weight for weight is more flexible.
The weird thing about metal fans is we’re all so maladjusted in a lot of ways. We’re individualistic and opinionated and severe in our personalities – sometimes we really turn each other off. A little bit of a metal fan goes a long way.
A gold book, fastened together in the shape of a book by wires of the same metal, had been dug up in the northern part of the state of New York, and along with the book an enormous pair of gold spectacles!
My main problem with Norwegian Black Metal is that almost all the bands from 1992-1993 are made up of rats, who ratted each other out and blamed me for everything that went wrong in the scene. I really don’t want to be associated with them in any way.
What was interesting about grunge was that it was this death sentence to the rock that had preceded it, which was hair metal.
My music has been called heavy metal, but that’s not an accurate description. I’d rather call it articulate rock because it expresses many feelings and emotions.
I have truly eclectic taste in music, and I seem to cycle through phases in terms of to what’s inspiring me. I’ll go from Beethoven to Sigur Ros; world music, Brit-pop, classic rock, blues/jazz, even the odd bit of heavy metal.
We want metal to be dangerous again. How cool would that be?
My dad had a guitar but it was acoustic, so I smashed a mirror and glued broken glass to it to make it look more metal. It looked ridiculous!
I was welding art from my house, making abstract figures out of metal.
I have 16 metal screws in my right arm, from the elbow to the shoulder, and they are extremely painful at the beginning of a training camp and also when the temperature changes. I also had a surgery on my left arm and two on my hips. Those four surgeries were pivotal in my decision to retire.
We are creatures of the earth and live on this planet through the powers of the sun and moon and through all facets of nature so I want our odyssey to the ‘Metal Galaxy’ to be one that we constantly appreciate how much we are able to travel the world through the power of music.
I really like ‘Metal Wolf Chaos,’ but it’s not my title.
If you drag your shoe a bit those plastic spikes or rubber spikes can be almost as bad as metal spikes.
Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.
It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is concerned with the behavior of metal or energy. It depends on what the fashion is. Now today it’s energy. It’s the same soul behind it. The same soul, you see.
Hopefully people can look at our band and see that we’re a heavy rock band. We’re definitely not a metal band, but we’re a band that focuses on meaningful lyrics and melody.
I like a lot of metal music. So that’s really what I listen to a lot. Or I listen to a lot of kind of off the cuff, like I love artists like Santigold, or Gold Frapp. Yeah. Pelican. Yeah.
There’s a great deal of poetry in working out how things work, cutting bits of metal, trying to mend stuff.
The biggest compliments I’ve heard about ‘That Metal Show’ are the ones from people that say that they don’t even listen to this kind of music, but, ‘We love watching the show.’
When Klopp speaks about his football being heavy metal, I understand completely. It is so aggressive. For the fans, it is really good.
I never understood why the metal heads in my school hated the punks.
I want to be the Letterman of metal. I want five nights a week, Monday to Friday, 11 to 12, live. I always shoot for the moon.
The ’80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal.
I don’t want my kids to live like I do, sweating in a little metal box. I want them to have sunshine. I want them to have light.
I think metal and horror definitely go hand in hand. Even when you go to a horror convention and meet the fans, nine out of 10 times if they’re not wearing some sort of horror shirt, they’re wearing a shirt with a metal band on it.
When I was 17, death metal and extreme hardcore was the best music in the world to me. But as I got older, my palette changed and my thirst for melody and emotion just got bigger and bigger.
I was a sheet metal worker, then a metal engineer, then a Pontin’s bluecoat, then a comedian. You can achieve anything you want if you put your mind to it.
Pantera revolutionized the sound and the approach to heavy metal. It’s been regurgitated. Once you up the production on a product and not just the playing but the actual production, then it’s going to up the ante.
Why is the sky blue? Why is the grass green? Why is metal a conductor of electricity, and wood is not, but you’re more likely to be struck by lightning when standing under a tree? These are questions that require science to answer.
Black Sabbath invented heavy metal, in my opinion.
It’s really cool to see glowsticks at the show, to see dance music culture infiltrating and becoming one with the metal community.
The Backstreet Boys are easy; they’re cream. And then here we are, this nine-piece metal militia.
Why would heavy metal ever go away?
There’s real potency in metal. Metal fans love metal as if it’s a nation they would fight for. It’s not diluted by pop culture.
I thought if I lost the band, I was dead. If I didn’t stick with the Who, I would be a sheet metal worker for the rest of my life.
Japan has really great fans for all kinds of music. I think they’re keeping metal alive.
The Space Station is primarily made of aluminum. The smell is really weird and sort of like burning metal. It is absolutely distinct and totally repeatable.
My analysis was directed toward purely physical conditions, such as defective wiring, presence of lack of air spaces between metal flues and woodwork, etc., and the results were presented in these terms.
I have very different kinds of songs – there are these film-music-type of songs, and then metal, metal, metal, ha-ha! These are different kinds of styles, so not every musician can play both types of music.
Heavy music is really getting its due. With nu-metal fallen by the wayside, real metal has started to surface.
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.
Heavy metal these days is what I call wimpy.
I had some interesting costumes… the one that I remember right offhand is Zorro when I was a lot younger. I was a big time Zorro fan. My mom helped me make it, and I remember having a big issue with the fact that she wouldn’t let me carry around a real metal sword; it just had to be plastic.
I listen to a lot of metal. I’m like a teenager – I make playlists with, like, 200 bands on them.
We’re trying to leave no stone unturned, to push forward in every aspect of what it means to be a band. Because this really matters to us. Metal matters to us. And we know exactly how much it means to kids out there, too.
Gold actually has properties – you can use gold for all sorts of things. People value gold for the metal. Nobody values bitcoin for the bitcoin; they value it because they believe that they can exchange it for something else.
In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.
From the beginning, I felt that Heavy Metal is not just about music but also something that you feel with your heart. It is music that helps you express your emotions and feelings.
We’re a rock n’ roll band. We play heavy metal music. And we want to give you a great time. That’s basically how it all boils down.
My dad’s chill. He’s the guy who, you wreck the car, he says, ‘Well, nobody was hurt. It’s just some metal.’
It’s a heavy weight, the camera. Now we have modern and lightweight, small plastic cameras, but in the ’70s they were heavy metal.
I knew I wanted to be in music, but I didn’t know my role, so I did everything from interning at Rolling Stone to writing heavy metal fanzines to playing in a high-school band, and I think all those things probably helped in a way.
You can see these boxes which are covered with metal foils for thermal reasons, and they are also, most of the time, thermally controlled inside to keep reasonable temperature inside each of these containers.
I listen to a lot of Pink Floyd, the Doors, Elton John, Sabbath, Metallica, GN’R, Megadeth – just classic rock, classic metal stuff.
I don’t like the way the cage is set up. I think it’s really dangerous that the metal comes up about three inches off the ground. People were putting their foot on it. I can see it. And I was worried about being taken down and landing backwards with my elbow. and damaging my elbow or even my head.
My own interest in basic aspects of electron transfer between metal complexes became active only after I came to the University of Chicago in 1946.
Anytime rock and metal can get on mainstream TV at all, it’s a good thing.
I had old bunk beds that my dad got from Seabrook Farms. They were first used by German prisoners during World War II, who were sent to work the farms during the war. The metal beds with their thin mattresses could easily be used as a jungle gym and I loved them.
The looters are using Google Earth, too. They’re coming in with metal detectors and geophysical equipment. Some ask me to confirm sites.
As a child, I could bike down the hill from my house and grab an ice-cold bottle of soda from the neighborhood grocer, which was nothing more than a corrugated metal shack run by two Indian men clad in sarongs.
My musical roots and inspiration lie not in rock n’ roll or metal music, but first and foremost in classical music, balalaika, and in underground house music.
Got a zip that is catching and not running smoothly? It often happens with old metal zips but it doesn’t always mean you should change it. Try running a candle along the teeth.
I like to put on hardcore when I have to clean my apartment, which I hate to do, but it’s motivational. I like old heavy metal when I’m outside working on my car. Music has definite functions for me.
I don’t take breaks, man. In the past, I used to spend my free time getting in trouble, and now I spend it working on my music. If I’m not playing drums with my cover band, Chevy Metal, I’m working on songs for myself.
I am tremendously excited to introduce a unique ‘Metal Gear Solid’ experience to a new audience of gamers as well as collaborate with my mentor in game design, Mr. Miyamoto, on ‘Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes’ for Nintendo GameCube.
If we have to put music into baskets, then the progressive rock bands I fell in love with as a teenager made sounds that shaded into jazz, folk, metal, and in the case of the wonderful (and sadly missed) Jon Lord, modern classical music.
You can really have a no-holds-barred relationship to materials with mixed metals and colorful schemes or more controlled palettes that are more tonal or restricted to a single accent color or metal finish. There are really no rules, and that is what makes contemporary design so limitless and enjoyable.
I’ve been picked up by Big Cass and thrown down the ramp onto metal. Have you ever seen that before in this business? No, no, that’s a mighty big fall from the top of the ramp, straight down to the bottom onto concrete. He picked me up over his head and thrown me 14 feet to the ground.
I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal.
When it actually came to everyone clamoring to see the medal and talking about the experience, I began to feel empty inside. I started to feel that this piece of metal was worth more than I was as a person, and I think this began a spiral for me.
I truly believe heavy metal has gone south. Too many people are focusing on, will the songs be on the radio, will the shirt be in Hot Topic?
If you get into Scientology, you will go to auditing. It’s like therapy except that there is an E-meter between you and your auditor. That’s a device that actually measures your galvanic skin responses. It’s two metal cans that you hold. They used to be Campbell’s Soup cans with the label scraped off.
A lot of power-pop comes out of LA, a lot of speed metal comes out of New York.
I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude.
A lot of the jobs I had revolved around metal fabrication and creating and building and maintaining equipment.
Until I got ‘Full Metal Jacket,’ I was doing Off-Off-Broadway plays with three people in the audience.
I was quite unable to make any white metal alloy hard enough to be made into powder by my machinery.
I think at times I have to be careful not to stick my foot in my mouth and not to have the pedal to the metal at all times, because that can hurt me as a quarterback.
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.
It’s a myth that I received any flak from the metal community over my decision to come out. I have, in fact, received numerous positive responses from fans, as well as e-mails from people who were going through much the same thing. It’s horrible to keep something like that secret, and I felt I had to make it public.
I’m very excited that my yelling will be featured on the next Evile disc; they’re one of my favorite new-ish bands and, in my not-so-humble opinion, the British saviors of thrash metal.
I didn’t realize Metallica was as big as they were. I just thought it was my buddy Kirk’s band – we went to high school together. I wasn’t really following metal.
Cinderella obviously got caught up in the hair metal scene, but they were such a blues band. And such a good live band.
People can talk about punk all they want, but after new wave put that down, metal is the voice of the disenfranchised and that need to become unhinged. That’s why it appeals to so many people when they are younger and carries over when those people, at 40, don’t want to grow up.
There is nothing more, I guess, cannibalistic than the metal or the hard rock scene, it seems.
Hard rock for me is AC/DC, Def Leppard, Tesla, Kiss. Metal tends to be louder, ruder, darker, like Judas Priest, Slayer, Iron Maiden.
My parents were always playing records: My mom was really into the Beatles and Fleetwood Mac, and my dad was more Billy Squire, Whitesnake, ’80s hair metal. But I think there’s that crucial point where you become an adolescent and you don’t want to listen to your parents’ music.
If you are a soul singer, you are a soul singer. If you are a heavy metal singer, then you are a heavy metal singer. What’s color got to do with it? I don’t go around thinking, ‘I sing soul music and I’m white.’ I just sing the way I feel.
In high school, I decided that all of my female friends were stupid and traded them for guy friends. I loved horror movies and heavy metal and used these interests to become a ‘guys’ girl.’
We now think it hilarious that medieval streets were used as open sewers. Equally, our descendants will say: ‘You won’t believe this, but people were once allowed to hurl a couple of tons of dangerous metal around smashing into each other.’
I think my heart will always be made of metal, but it would be ignorant of me and kind of foolish to ignore the other emotional connections you can make in all kinds of music.
The best indication is that I still love to ski on most anything, from skating gear to heavy metal.
I just felt like I’d rather listen to even the worst metal song more than most current pop music.
I am a closet metal fan.
Of course, as consumers, we want cheap and good products; however, if these production processes are exceeding wastewater discharge standards and even causing heavy metal pollution, they will cause long-lasting damage to the ecological environment and public health.
Deep Purple definitely belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. ‘Cause they had great songs, great musicianship, they had an impact, and they’re a huge influence on the heavy metal community as a whole.
Oh, I was a real Nirvana kid. I got into jazz because I listened to a lot of metal, Megadeth and that, and those guys play really fast and are virtuosos. I wanted to learn more about it, and I discovered that a lot of jazz guys played really fast, too.
I finished my university studies with classical music while being in a successful metal band, but that was not an easy task at all.
I am no friend of the modern so-called ‘black metal’ culture. It is a tasteless, lowbrow parody of Norwegian black metal circa 1991-92, and if it was up to me, it would meet its dishonorable end as soon as possible.
I was into ‘Crash Bandicoot.’ ‘Croc.’ I loved ‘Twisted Metal.’ And as far as the WWE and wrestling games? All of them. I played ‘SmackDown! Just Bring It’ and ‘Smackdown vs. Raw.’
Give metal a chance!
I’m primarily thought of as a rocker, and certainly ‘Frankenstein’ had a very dramatic power rock image. It was almost a precursor of heavy metal and fusion. But I also love jazz and classical and if there’s one common thread that runs through all my music, it is blues.
It’s a very empowering kind of music, heavy metal is.
I wanna write a classic metal record, a classic rock record, in 2013.
I’ve always worn my wedding band when I’m working out. A few years ago I realized how dangerous wearing a metal band could be and switched to silicone.
I remember when metal was something you really had to search out, and now I hear it on car commercials.
At Mass General in January 2007, Dr. Loeffler’s team attached a ring-shaped metal frame to my head with four pins. Then I went to the radiation center, where they strapped me to the treatment table and secured the head frame so that I couldn’t move.
We didn’t gel with Poison and the Bon Jovi. Bon Jovi was the best of the pop metal bands, but we never fit in with the hair metal stuff. We were never as hip as the Chili Peppers. We were in the middle.
In 1994, we had the first record by a true heavy metal band to ever hit the Billboard top No. 1 slot. We paved the way. And we always waved the heavy metal flag.
Together, the Jenner sisters have left their mark on the jewelry and fashion accessories industry, first with The Kendall & Kylie Collection at PacSun in 2012, the Metal Haven jewelry collection in 2013, and a line of shoes and handbags for Steve Madden in 2014.
My biggest influences were 1980s punk and metal. Metallica were my biggest influence because they were good at everything – riffs, energy – but with such an ear for melody, it was hard not to get pulled into it and become a fanatic.
It’s not so surprising that there are more women in metal bands. And they’re not just fronting them. There are drummers and guitar players, bass players.
I think if you’re trying to be funny, sometimes you’re bending a piece of metal in a direction it doesn’t want to go. And sometimes comedy just needs to find itself.
When I need some energy in the morning I can put a metal CD in my player, because it gets me going! Classical music will send me off the road!
Once we see stars with three times the metal content of our sun, the planet detection rate goes up to 20 per cent.
I grew up on misogynist, devil-worshipping heavy metal music, and then it was groups like The Clash and Public Enemy that reminded me that there were a different set of ideas that could be expressed with great music.
Basically, death metal, as a musician on my part, it just changed everything as far as the technicality and where you could take music.
I love creating things, especially out of metal. There’s something truly satisfying about shaping a piece of metal and seeing the impurities peeling away as you weld it into your chosen design.
I mean there’s certainly a lot of progressive rock and metal that exists at the underground level, which has its own vitality, as it should. But it seems to have lost its ability to really charge up the hill.
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.
Heavy metal to me implies a relentless, pounding, hitting-people-over-the-head music. Trend setters tend to dismiss it as basic and simple, but all the time that little trends keep coming and going, the Bob Segers, Bruce Springsteens and the Billy Squiers keep staying.
‘The Shining’ has always been my favorite horror movie. It is scary and incredibly psychological without relying on blood and gore. Jack Nicholson’s performance is absolutely mind-blowing. And the mood and the feel is definitely metal.
I joined a metal band with only guys when I was 17.
The guitar influence that affected my songwriting came from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal.
I was always stealing 40-gallon drums off the road at night, bringing them back to the workshop and cutting them up with a gas axe because I loved to weld. I would make creatures out of these old metal drums.
Metallica is a very complicated, fragile thing. On the outside, it’s all metal, but on the inside it’s very delicate.
I don’t think there’s any music that you hear on the radio today that would be possible without Jimi Hendrix. Rock, blues-rock, heavy metal, any guitar stuff when you get right down to it – Jimi did it. He’s certainly the guy who basically invented the blues-rock genre for guitar players.
I’ve had the privilege of meeting and/or interviewing most of the top metal and hard rock artists at various points in my career and sharing their stories and music with millions of fans on air through TV and radio.
My earliest memories are going into prisons. Going through metal detectors, getting searched by guards.
I left school when I was 16; then I worked for my father, who was a welder. And I was a welder for three years, you know, welder of fabrication, metal ’cause it was a big industrial town, Sheffield. It was much steel and coal and stuff like that.
Metal has always been somewhat marginalized, and I love to prove the perception and stereotypes that go with it wrong.
What I do know is rock and roll and metal never goes away, ever. It took the back seat in America in the ’90s. In Japan and South America, it was still really big. I never followed trends, so I don’t know the exact function of them.
I’ve often talked about metal being the underdog in rock n’ roll music.
In all of my years in this business, I’ve always been part of either a progressive band or a metal band.
Obviously, our children, who have been playing with their computers since the age of five or six, don’t have quite the same brain as those who were brought up on wooden or metal toys, whose brains are certainly atrophied by comparison.
From time to time, I’ve experimented with sculpture or metal design. It’s a good break from just sitting behind the keyboard.
We did some shows – Soulfly played for the Marines twice and it was great meeting those guys. A lot of them are heavy metal fans and go to war areas like Iraq and Afghanistan and listen to their metal. I’m glad that my music has somehow helped them get through that at least a little bit.
I meet these rock guys, these metal guys, and we are very real.
The last time I really got into new music that wasn’t heavy metal was probably like… TV on the Radio? I think that was it. That’s the last time.
We grew up with every type of band from Primus to Mr. Bungle to Elton John to pop music to metal, and we try to throw it all in a blender. And whatever comes out of that is more Avenged Sevenfold than metal or metalcore.
My mother ‘gave teas’ the way other mothers breathed. Her own mother ‘gave teas.’ All of their friends ‘gave teas,’ each involving butter cookies extruded from a metal press and pastel bonbons ordered from See’s.
I remember the first time I held a rifle – the metal was so cold, and it’s so heavy. I also didn’t know the amount of pressure I had to use. My first finger went numb for a week.
I have metal in my body, so every time I go to an airport, the metal detector goes off.
We were lumped into the Lite Metal radio bands.
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.
The style of music that we’re playing, this progressive metal style, has always been an upstream battle for us. We don’t usually get a lot of commercial exposure.
If you looked at my iPod, you would get a trip out of all the different music, from the real heavy metal to bluegrass to classical.
I go online, and I love watching heavy metal bands and guitar players play heavy metal versions of the ‘Zelda’ theme, and people do all the ‘Zelda’ music, which is one of my favorite soundtracks.
I come from a family of scrap metal dealers, so becoming an actor seemed like a ridiculous thing to do, but I’d found the thing that gave me a kick, and I quickly became obsessed with it.
I write almost all my songs on an acoustic guitar, even if they turn into rock songs, hard rock songs, metal songs, heavy metal songs, really heavy songs… I love writing on an acoustic because I can hear what every string is doing; the vibrations haven’t been combined in a collision of distortion or effects yet.
Apart from its dangers, much of Iraq isn’t very interesting to look at. The landscape is flat and dun colored. The dirt just beyond the highway is littered with hunks of twisted and mangled metal, some of it the detritus of wars, some of it just unclaimed junk. The countryside looks muddy and broken.
Metal isn’t necessarily aggressive. There’s metal that’s contemplative, there’s metal that’s sad, and there’s metal that’s exuberant. No genre is limited in what it can express.
There’s everybody in the world who is always trying, time and time again, to proclaim the death of rock, or hard rock and heavy metal. Not if I have anything to do with it, not if we have anything to do with it.
I go to metal concerts as well as classical concerts, and I love both of them.
Unfortunately, I think metal bands don’t have too much to say in their lyrics, and never care about it. We just decided not to be like that.
I’m a family guy who grew up with metal, and even though I’m domesticated I still have this in me.
We are aiming to create a one and only new music genre that exceeds the limits of pop and metal music.
‘Waking the Fallen’ truly encompasses everything that Avenged Sevenfold was at that time. It was us being fearless, us showing our roots in heavy metal, punk, rock n’ roll, and not being afraid to try everything under the sun when it comes to writing music.
All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don’t subscribe to any of that. It’s all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the Seventies sounds nothing like the stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who’s to say what is and isn’t a certain type of music?
I had the idea to spend the year off in 2008 and start writing a rock album. I wanted to do something else other than melodic metal after more than ten years of After Forever. I thought it would be nice to sidestep into rock.
Most ceramic plates, bowls, and cups have an unglazed rim around the very bottom, where the piece was in contact with the floor of the kiln. This unglazed ceramic is harder than metal and can be used just like a sharpening stone.
I always wanted to merge heavy metal with pop music, but I think that because I grew up more with pop, the Beatles and the Stones, I tended to affiliate myself with those projects.
The same sensations that you get in heavy metal are in horror movies. Heavy metal sounds evil and horror movies are evil, ha ha!
I’m not brassed off, it’s just it’s the association of the Dalek question, this mechanical mobile object, I’m beginning to find it distracting. And they were difficult to play to, because you’re not looking into human eyes. You’re looking at a metal object, moving about, with a voiceover.
When I was a kid, I really wanted a metal detector for Christmas, convinced I was going to find buried treasure and could retire at 12. Santa Claus brought me one, but sadly, that treasure was never realized. It’s amazing how many bottle caps you have to dig up. But to be honest, that dream is still alive.
A Republican philosophy goes something like this: If you take your car to the mechanic, and instead of fixing it, they take out the engine and charge you an arm and a leg, you should conclude that mechanics can’t fix cars and you should probably just take yours to the junkyard and sell it for scrap metal.
I never thought in my whole life of becoming a heavy metal singer, but it just happened because I took the challenge.
Some bands sound like one song the whole album through. We’ve been all over the place because we are punk, hardcore, rock n’ roll, metal, reggae – and I think sometimes it might be too much diversity, and kids are lost.
When I’m working, on sets or stages, my contracts specify in the rider that no plastic bottles be used. When I’m playing with my band, we all use metal and non-plastic containers for drinking to be ecologically sensitive and show others that this is the way to go.
Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away.
I’m really not the biggest metal fan as it is. I’m more of a hard-street-punk kind of kid, but I also loved hip hop and reggae music, so we have always sort of refused a street style that is something that we are used to. Something that makes us comfortable and sounds good to us.
If Bill jumps into something that relies on a lot of cymbals, I’ll jump into something that relies on a lot of skin sounds; if he goes into metal tones, I’ll go into wood, and so on. I basically play in his holes.
There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are no more a solution than forks and spoons are a solution to world hunger.
For me, shaping and sharpening knives is the perfect mix of a day of metal and woodwork, and seriously scratches my lifelong itch to make something with my own two hands – be it squid-and-veggie ramen or the fiberglass finish on a surfboard.
I like metal detecting, collecting Civil War artifacts, fishing, hunting, cigars, Labradors, the outdoor life, my baseball game, football.
The way people receive our music is different and some people may say that our music is not metal. But I feel that those reviews allow us to challenge ourselves and gives us an opportunity to grow even more.
While we don’t always ‘get’ metal, we’re doing our very best.
Anything that anybody wants to give me is great! I’ve had folk songs, heavy metal songs, jewellery… I would never call anything any fan gives me weird, as it’s how people express what they like about the books, what it means to them, and that’s a wonderful thing.
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.
When you think of rock and roll and metal, a lot of it is based around the riff. If you can sing over the riff and what the arrangements are going to be like, you have to leave space for what most people consider one of the most key essential parts, which is the vocalist.
I guess that I’m primarily thought of as a rocker, largely because of ‘Frankenstein’ being such a heavy song – you know, it was really hard rock, almost a precursor of heavy metal and just the image of the synthesizer. I happened to be the first guy to get the idea of putting a strap on the keyboard.
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 enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal. I play basketball and try to go diving at least once a year. I don’t really have hobbies in the traditional sense… I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.
My mom always encouraged me, it was never weird. She’d look at ‘Heavy Metal’ and go ‘Woo-hoo!’
My mum wasn’t the sort of person who would ordinarily listen to heavy metal. But she thinks Babymetal’s songs are cool. She’s a big fan.
I grew up an ’80s metal guy.
I definitely talk about my love of metal to audiences, and I sort of realized it was always natural and never, ‘Well, I’m going to be the heavy-metal comedian.’
I enjoy everything. I actually do listen to everything. In high school, I listened to a lot of metal and punk rock.
To do an extreme metal record is something that is well within my capacity as a musician to write stuff out of the box, write stuff that’s probably more extreme than the band I’m in at the present time, and it’s something that needs to come out of me one way or another.
However you feel about Dimebag, this is one of the most influential metal guitar players of the ’90s. I was just talking to someone that I am hiring to bring on the tour who said that, when he was at the funeral, that Eddie Van Halen came and put his striped guitar in the coffin. That’s a pretty big deal.
I feel like the rap metal at the end of the 1990s destroyed rock music for everybody and suddenly everybody felt like they had to apologise for being in rock bands. People suddenly felt bad about wanting to reach massive audiences and the sense of theatre, that we have in our live show, became something to avoid.
I hope everyone can appreciate the wonderful aspects of metal music.
Bands like Metallica never sat around and said, ‘We’re speed metal,’ or ‘We’re thrash metal.’ If it feels good at the end of the day, to me, that’s metal.
The hardest thing for me is walking. Can you imagine you’ve got a metal pole and if you put pressure on it like a strong walk, you can walk.
I wore a ‘Black Metal’ Venom T-shirt once, in January 1993, to promote black metal, and I regret having done that ever since.
One of the reasons I love devils so much is not based in my faith, but because as a kid, I grew up loving heavy metal and horror movies, and the devil is such a huge presence in both.
My passions are stand-up comedy, hard rock and metal, and baseball and the Mets.
I am sure there are some people who say that we are not metal, but we want to create a new genre that will appeal to people of all ages, both boys and girls.
I have this weird allergy where metal can’t touch my skin.
I’ve always said if you’re comparing movies to music, then horror would be the black metal of the categories.
I did not know what metal was, so I never headbanged before… I used to have muscle pain that lasted three days… but now I am used to it and I have more stamina now.
‘Wages Of Sin’ was the first metal album I ever bought, and it was love at first listen.
The first ‘Charlemagne’ album is metal, of course, but what I sang was more symphonic.
If we’re compared to Metallica, the greatest metal band in the world, I think that’s actually a pretty damn good compliment.
I went to a Catholic School, and underneath my school uniform, I wore a metal shirt.
Music is never-ending, that’s what I love about it. Even after we’re dead, this music will still exist… that’s the best bit. That’s metal.
When we started, I was just having fun with it I didn’t even know about doing it for a living. It was a new style of music, a combo of punk and metal.
I would never slam my iPhone, and I never punched a metal door frame for any time.
I know I am more on the sexual side in terms of my appearance, which is something that the metal world is not used to. But I am comfortable with it. It’s how I express my art, and myself.
The one thing that’s changed for ‘That Metal Show’ is that it’s now global; it’s now on in places outside of America.
Metal fans are the most hard-core, loyal fans.
When I was teaching I’d go to some schools where no one wanted to dance – when they came into the room it was as though they were being punished. But I’d put on the loudest, the heaviest metal you could imagine and they loved it.
Space is tight inside a tank: very close confines, and you’re permanently banging. Like in Brad Pitt’s new movie ‘Fury’ – the clanking of metal is all you hear.
The power of music, and the power of your determination in life, especially when you’re playing extreme metal like this… it just conquers. It conquers everything.
My mother kept all my awards on the sideboard of her front room, and she polished them. She polished everything religiously. And it doesn’t take long for the very thin layer of gold to disappear and the base metal underneath to show through.
The Pandoras began as a ’60s punk group. Then they went pop, then metal. When they went metal, I quit because I hate heavy metal music and I wanted to write my own songs.
PG-13′ is kind of a scattered, almost movie soundtrack album, with elements of punk and metal and electronica.
We go out there every night, and we fight the battle. We don’t care about people who don’t think we’re true metal. We hope to change their minds. I have total faith.
With ‘Hail To The King’ – our last album – we obviously wore our influences on our sleeve, and it was a blatant attempt to turn on our younger generation of fans to more classic-sounding metal.
Metal music is a very fan-oriented, fan-protected music – very sacred.
I don’t know what genre you would put us into, and I’m always telling people that. When I’m trying to explain In This Moment’s sound to them, all I can say is that its diverse-sounding, with influences such as metalcore’s breakdowns, metal in general and some melodic rock.
I was in a rock band; I was my own folk singer; I was in a death metal band for a very short time; I was in a cover band, a jazz band, a blues band. I was in a gospel choir.
When people say, ‘Your music was the music of the Seventies,’ I say, ‘So was discoteque.’ The Seventies was also the highest peak of heavy metal. Pick a genre – they were all alive.
I always dreamt of being in ‘Kerrang.’ That was my ambition. I read that religiously when I was into heavy metal. Then the jazz magazines took over.
All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don’t subscribe to any of that. It’s all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the ’70s sounds nothing like the stuff from the ’80s, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the ’90s. Who’s to say what is and isn’t a certain type of music?
I think that metal has always been, in my opinion, the most passionate form of music, and it only makes sense to actually be passionate about what you’re saying when you’re delivering music to people, whether it’s through an album or for a live show.
Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
Kerrang asked us to do a heavy metal tribute to one of our favorite heavy metal bands. We had already been jamming out on ‘Walk,’ so we’re like, ‘OK. We’ll record it for you guys.’
Metal fans are just as compassionate and caring and tolerant as any other form of music fans are.
There’s a lot of modern stuff I really dig, like Melechesh or Italian death metal like Hour Of Penance and Bloodtruth.
We would like to continue to spread metal to everyone.
I remember being inspired by this band Godflesh, actually. They were a really heavy metal band, really nihilistic.
In the metal world, if you’re using a wireless mic… I was so scared to do that. I’m, like, ‘They’re gonna boo me in the beginning.’
My biggest failure is ‘Metal Gear.’ It’s my biggest failure and my biggest success.
Volbeat is one of those bands, where as soon as I hear them, I know who it is. It sounds like Elvis – backed by a Metal band.
I was a fan of heavy music – first metal, then punk, then hip hop.
Achievements are precious and timeless, just like the precious metal platinum. And what better way to celebrate milestones in your life than with precious platinum.
We’ve played all sorts of weird and wonderful places. You do all kinds of venues from heavy metal places in Germany to big ornate churches, and everything in between.
And I realized, when I’d come in to the meetings with these corrugated metal and chain link stuff, and people would just look at me like I’d just landed from Mars. But I couldn’t do anything else. That was my response to the people and the time.
During our first year, we were playing Priest and Maiden cover tunes all the time while we figured out what we wanted to do as a band. At the time I was getting out of metal and into punk. That’s how Slayer’s sound came together – it’s the speed of punk combined with the big riffs of metal.
You can get some spiked up greens even with no metal spikes, it just depends.
We’re teaming up with a major Hollywood studio, and we’re making a movie called ‘Copper.’ It’s set on Mars in the 24th century. By then we’ve got 27 billion people in the world, copper is the world’s most valuable metal because everything runs on electricity, and there’s no more burning of hydrocarbons.
Never use an aluminum pot, pan, or utensil when cooking tomatoes – or any other soft metal items for that matter. The acidity in the tomato doesn’t do well with them; they create a chemical reaction that can turn cooked tomatoes bitter and fade the color, and the food will absorb some of the aluminum!
There seems to sometimes be an entire genre called ‘female-fronted metal.’
I still think the best metal bands have a blues feel. The first Black Sabbath album is kind of a bludgeoning of blues. Deep Purple also started out as a blues band.
I think every physiotherapist will tell you that it’s not a very good idea, and there are many musicians in the metal scene who have suffered severe damage – like, the guitar player from Iced Earth, Jon Schaffer, had severe neck problems due to headbanging.
Some of the smartest people I know are metal fans.
I think metal fans are more loyal than other fans, and they are often more inclined to collect the albums of their favorite bands.
I agree that it’s absurd to call a category of music ‘female-fronted metal,’ because if you look at Otep or Epica or Arch Enemy, we don’t sound anything alike.
A well-seasoned and properly cleaned wok will always have micro-pores in the metal that hold some oil or food particulate, etc. – that’s a good thing.
I listen to jazz, Western classical, contemporary, Bollywood and heavy metal.
‘Metal Gear Solid’ is, for the most part, an infiltration game. You go somewhere, you execute your mission, then you go back. Those are your actions as the player.
Metal, I love metal sounds. If I have a stick with me, I just drag it across a fence. And all fences make different sounds, just like people when they laugh.
On their debut, Korn brought a new definition of metal that was a game changer.
I really felt like we were gonna be The Rolling Stones of heavy metal, and we could have been.
I really love ‘Killchain’ – it’s got this groove, it’s the groove I always talk about in death metal and black metal, people try to discredit it but you cannot deny it.
We had an extreme reaction to Storm Corrosion. We were proud of it, but it divided the audience. The metal fans were divided. Some went with it. Some hated it, since it wasn’t the progressive metal supergroup they were waiting for.
I’m living proof that whatever happens to you in life, you can turn base metal into gold.
Every day is a good day above ground, and especially being able to play metal and being able to your craft and everything. You’ve gotta respect that, because it’s something that can be taken away from you really quick.
I just happened to wind up in a metal band when I was 15.
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.
We didn’t say, ‘Hey, we’re gonna pick a bunch of cover songs,’ or, ‘We’re gonna write an original song that has to sound like this, because we’re a metal band, so we’re gonna cover some metal songs.’ We did the opposite. We just said, ‘We’re gonna have fun with these songs, and we’re gonna try different things.’
We’re definitely a metal band. We push a lot of boundaries. But at the core we’re a metal band.
A collaboration with Rob Halford, the ‘Metal God,’ has always been my dream. I never imagined that dream would come true!
When you have three teenage girls, and you’re married 21 years, and have a mother who’s blind in one eye and has dementia who lives with you, and your dad has worse dementia, and you’re into metal, and your wife is born again, you’re never running out of material.
CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch them in the ’70s, it was real cars, real metal, real blasts. They’re really doing it and risking their lives. But I knew CGI was gonna start taking over.
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.
I’m that girl that’s a hardcore musician and loves to sing and write and play instruments but, at the same time, loves video games, metal music, and just being a goofy person.
We believe that many people who already like metal and those who like other genres will be accepting to this new type of metal.
As a female in metal, I’m going to get ostracized one way or another. So, if I’m going to have people hating me because I’m a female in metal, I might as well get people loving me because I’m a female in metal, too.
I’ve said the Grammys messed up metal because it’s not on TV. What I’m saying is when you’re in a metal category, it’s not televised, and it doesn’t move the needle forward for metal artists, and I wish they had more respect for the genre.
We are aiming to create a new genre with a new style in terms of visuals and sound. A mixture of dance and metal which strays away from the traditional or conventional metal band.
On a regular basis, to appease White House or campaign staffs, Secret Service officials order agents to ignore basic security rules and let people into events without being put through a magnetometer or metal detector.
If heavy metal bands ruled the world, we’d be a lot better off.
I’ve been requested by hundreds of metal bands to be part of their albums or side projects.
The first day at the power plant I found myself photographing some steam vents on the roof of the structure. And I remember consciously thinking that they were just like trees but they were metal.
People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it’s just like looking at a heavy metal drummer. I mean, they’re playing with the same amount of ferocity. It’s not to say all jazz is like that.
Me being the metal fan that I am, I like to listen to thrash metal to get me pumped – that kind of music will get your heart racing and ready for a crowd.
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.
I hope our fans are able to experience that they are also on an odyssey to the ‘Metal Galaxy’ with us. We’ve incorporated different types of music into this album and we hope that fans are able to feel our determination to a new departure.
An iron lung looks like an enormous metal coffin or a 19th-century rocket ship: only its occupant’s head is left outside, a tight seal around the neck.
When I was a very young kid, the first music that really turned me on was a new wave of British heavy metal – big, dumb rock music. There was a band called Diamond Head – they were basically the band that inspired Metallica. But I also liked bands like Saxon and Iron Maiden.
I think that the fact of the matter is that metal isn’t really part of the big picture of the gay, lesbian, transgender music scene. But it’s certainly there. There’s gay metalheads all over the world.
If you write a letter of resignation or something with an agenda, you’re simply using a pen to record what you have thought out. In a poem, the pen is more like a flashlight, a Geiger counter, or one of those metal detectors that people walk around beaches with.
We grew up on hip-hop, metal, and hard core, which… reflect a certain amount of the chaos and confusion that are part of daily life.
I was very limited in what I could do with flying saucers, because they’re just a metal disc. I had to try and put character in as if they were intelligently guided.
