We've always said we're a HEAVY METAL band. We've kinda branched out here and there - we've done a rap thing, we've done a rap-rock thing, we've done something with Angelo Belmonte, who's the primary composer of Twin Peaks. In… — Charlie Benante Copy Share Image
In the long-run I think we lost some of our audience because of noise. I don't think people were ready for it, OK? And after we did it nothing really happened, but then 4-5 years later when there was a… — Charlie Benante Copy Share Image
My friends are coming up - they run this tattoo parlour out there and they're gonna ink me up with the tattoo I've been… — Charlie Benante Copy Share Image
I had demos that I'd send out of the songs and I'd get, "Great, can't wait to get in a room and actually play this and work on the album." So, it was good all-around because they knew even though I wasn't with them for some of the shows, I was being productive, which was really important because I didn't… — Charlie Benante Copy Share
I love good momentum. It makes everybody happy and in this time that we're living in, especially musically speaking, if you can make a record that has more than 4 or 5 songs deep and it has a good variety of songs. You don't frontload it with those first couple of songs. You continue the record taking the listener on… — Charlie Benante Copy Share
We live in a time where everybody has an opinion and everyone's opinion can be featured somewhere, whether it's an online column and everybody… — Charlie Benante Copy Share Image
So biggest pussies in METAL, I'd say a lot of these emo bands come off as pussies.They have those beards and tight jeans and… — Charlie Benante Copy Share Image
Everybody is afraid to touch the topic of religion, especially with the extreme muslims. It's such a touchy subject. You can attack any other… — Charlie Benante Copy Share Image
The afterlife I'm not so sure about. So, I don't understand why you'd want to hurt other people in thinking that you'll go on… — Charlie Benante Copy Share Image
Every time we have been drunk on Jager it's been - either we didn't remember or it's been insane. — Charlie Benante Copy Share Image
I couldn't deal with anything. I wasn't enjoying what I was doing because of the situation. My Paiste rep, a symbol company, referred me… — Charlie Benante Copy Share Image
That's why I think it hurt us, whereas these other bands [I'm assuming he means the other Big 3 -Slayer, Megadeth, Metallica] they kept doing their thing, just METAL. METAL. METAL. METAL. We didn't do that, we took a little but of a turn. — Charlie Benante Copy Share
