If you're into metal, then you should like hair metal!

I'm not ashamed to say that I really loved some of the hair metal bands of the '80s.

— Chris McCaughan

There's a lot of modern stuff I really dig, like Melechesh or Italian death metal like Hour Of Penance and Bloodtruth.

— Max Cavalera

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…

— Eddie Trunk

We had no clue what heavy metal was. We were like: 'What's that?'

— Yui Mizuno

What was interesting about grunge was that it was this death sentence to the rock that had preceded it, which was hair metal.

— Mike D

We jumped on a train in the mid-80s, and that train was 'hair metal.'

— Jani Lane

I am the man who put the hair in hair metal.

— Sebastian Bach

My attitude was always, if you are a huge metal fan, the more dedicated and more obsessive a metal fan you are, then why…

— Martin Popoff

1994 was the nadir for heavy metal, although the rest of the '90s weren't much of a picnic either.

— Martin Popoff

We believe that many people who already like metal and those who like other genres will be accepting to this new type of metal.

— Moa Kikuchi

I was into alternative stuff, but I was also open to a little bit of hard rock and metal, like Guns N' Roses, Metallica.

— Girl Talk

I already tried that. Something heavy metal like. And sunglasses. But it didn't work; I went to the gas station and when I left…

— Michael Schumacher

It's amazing how well real strings blend with metal, like that whole sound.

— John Petrucci

Around the mid-'90s every hair guy who would have been in a hair-metal band got his tattoos and suddenly decided he was alternative. It…

— Billy Corgan

I don't exactly fit well in leather pants, so I don't rock that look. I lost my hair a long time ago, so no…

— Brian Posehn