I don't think there's anything remotely "new" or…

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

— Chris McCaughan

When I was in high school, I listened to a lot of death metal bands.

— Amy Lee

I still think the best metal bands have a blues feel. The first Black Sabbath album is kind of a bludgeoning of blues. Deep…

— Greg Ginn

A missive to all you metal bands, the world is totally over the rock thing. Rock is deader than it's ever been.

— Billy Corgan

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

— Mick Barr

Basically every song on modern metal albums follows a formula and you get that formula in between one to three tracks.

— Mat McNerney

If heavy metal bands ruled the world, we'd be a lot better off.

— Bruce Dickinson

I listen to a lot of other cyber metal bands such as Fear Factory, Sybreed, and Mnemic to name a few, so it has…

— Paul Wardingham

I like the old school heavy metal bands like AC/DC and Aeromith. I like that type of music. As the director, I tried to…

— Dolph Lundgren

These new metal bands are going out, getting drunk and going to strip clubs, and they'll be doing the same in thirty years. There…

— Moby

I hate when there's a band that you've loved and you go and see them and it's like only the really new experimental stuff…

— Zawe Ashton

At the time of starting this band I was listening to tons of death metal. However, the bands that made me want to be…

— Mitch Lucker

I would say that I'm very proud that Metallica plays heavy music - but equally proud that we don't think like a heavy-metal band.

— Lars Ulrich

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

All I've got on my iPod is every single Queen song and every single Judas Priest song. Queen were an incredible heavy metal band.…

— Rob Halford