With my classical training and coming from a metal band, producers didn't know what to expect. I like to shock people, though. — Tarja Turunen Copy Share Image
I just think that a metal band covering a bunch of metal songs is so boring, so 'done before.' — M. Shadows Copy Share Image
If we're compared to Metallica, the greatest metal band in the world, I think that's actually a pretty damn good compliment. — Johnny Christ Copy Share Image
I was in punk rock bands, heavy metal bands, world music bands, jazz groups, any type of music that would take me.… — Reggie Watts Copy Share Image
It kills me when I see some metal band trying to pass themselves off as an 'alternative band. — Dimebag Darrell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We're just a metal band. Whenever people ask me what kind of music we play, I always say metal. — Mattew Nicholls Copy Share Image
I remember being inspired by this band Godflesh, actually. They were a really heavy metal band, really nihilistic. — Lou Barlow Copy Share Image
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… — Synyster Gates Copy Share Image
I'm just not a big fan of the too-cool-for-school indie world. Metal bands have never been invited or been able to be… — Scott Ian Copy Share Image
These new metal bands are going out, getting drunk and going to strip clubs, and they'll be doing the same in thirty… — Moby Copy Share Image
All I've got on my iPod is every single Queen song and every single Judas Priest song. Queen were an incredible heavy… — Rob Halford Copy Share Image
We are aiming to create a new genre with a new style in terms of visuals and sound. A mixture of dance… — Yui Mizuno Copy Share Image
I just want to be considered a heavy metal band, because metal has always been around and will always be around. We're… — Mitch Lucker Copy Share Image
Hopefully people can look at our band and see that we're a heavy rock band. We're definitely not a metal band, but… — Adam Rich Copy Share Image
I've always worn my wedding band when I'm working out. A few years ago I realized how dangerous wearing a metal band… — Rich Froning Jr Copy Share Image
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… — Zacky Vengeance Copy Share Image
“Johnny Battistini had gone to Japan once as a replacement drummer for a metal band past its prime ... a one-shot gig… — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
I had my first band. it was kind of a progressive metal band kind of thing. I just started writing songs that… — Alissa White-Gluz Copy Share Image
Arch Enemy is a female-fronted metal band, but so is Delain. They don't sound alike at all. The only thing they both… — Floor Jansen Copy Share Image
“Fucking Hallmark never wrote anything for how I felt then. When Metallica and the rest of the metal community pitched in to… — Susan Juby Copy Share Image
The United States military is now using the music of Metallica and other heavy metal bands to break the will of Saddam… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I don't know if it was related to the type of music that we were doing at that time or what, but… — David Pajo Copy Share Image
Yeah, sci-fi is definitely a big influence on Fear Factory. I've had people tell me we always sing about the same thing… — Dino Cazares Copy Share Image
“A neurosurgeon once told me about operating on the brain of a young man with epilepsy. As is customary in this kind… — Wilder Penfield Copy Share Image
I let that swim around in my aching head for a few minutes - the arsenal of megadeath...the arsenal of megadeath -… — Dave Mustaine Copy Share Image
We are a metal band, period. To me, the 'nu' part infers some sort of a rap influence. — David Draiman Copy Share Image
I'm not ashamed to say that I really loved some of the hair metal bands of the '80s. — Chris McCaughan Copy Share Image
I played in a death-metal band. People either loved us or hated us. Or they thought we were OK. — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
Anthrax, it's something that gets you sick, it's horrible, strong. It's a heavy-metal band name if there ever was one. — Scott Ian Copy Share Image
I never thought of us as a punk band, a metal band, or a new wave band. Just as a band band. — Angus Young Copy Share Image
I don't think there's anything remotely "new" or "experimental" about any modern metal bands. — Mat McNerney Copy Share Image
