I've always said if you're comparing movies to music, then…

Without music in a horror there is actually such a big part missing.

— Daniel Stamm

“what I felt was inexpressible gratitude for the music, that in this horror there could be something as beautiful as that.”

— Anne Rice

The term "black metal" has become a lot looser, or can include a larger range of sounds and extra-musical aesthetics, not just Satan and…

— Colin Marston

“Black Metal just makes sense; its melodramatic Satanism transformed into an angry lament for human folly. But it doesn't just mourn. It also aims…

— Brenda S. Gardenour Walter

I think one of the biggest sleepers that people are going to be able to dig into later is 'Fermi Paradox,' it's the song…

— M. Shadows

For years I wouldn't listen to black metal from anywhere but Norway.

— Mick Barr

Black metal - especially from the '90s - contains a certain production aesthetic that keys you into the emotive content. You feel it more…

— Jorge Elbrecht

I hardly follow the Finnish metal scene at all at the moment. I'm more interested in traditional '80s heavy metal, and I'm still a…

— Jussi Lehtisalo

Yeah, sci-fi is definitely a big influence on Fear Factory. I've had people tell me we always sing about the same thing but it's…

— Dino Cazares

Starting in junior high school, through high school, I was very into metal or black metal and death metal specifically.

— Andrew W.K

Before the 90s, black metal wasn't a selling tool [and didn't] have money behind it. Then it became a pop sensation. Now that the…

— Mat McNerney

All in all, I think that out of all musical genres, the world of metal is the most escapist one. Metal is also music…

— Tuomas Holopainen

I don't have much contact at all with other black metal bands.

— Mick Barr

I think Americans such as Leviathan have done a lot to expand the sonic palette of black metal.

— Colin Marston

Hate walks hand in hand with hate, and black metal especially is a genre that is full of white power bands.

— Blake Judd