Fans Quote by M. Shadows

We all grew up with Black Sabbath. I mean, there's no secret there. Any of us, any of the members of any band I've…

— Robert Trujillo

There's nobody like us in rock history. I'm not saying we're the greatest band in the world - that would be ridiculous.

— Steve Lukather

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

We've played with Black Flag, Bad Brains, Minor Threat, The Ramones. You name any punk band and we've probably played or toured with them…

— Reed Mullin

We never considered ourselves to be a good band or anything, we just thought we were playing for fun and we wanted to play…

— Daniel Johns

I've always said that there's a huge progressive rock, progressive metal audience out there, in the world. We see it when we're on tour.

— John Petrucci

We're just some little metal band.

— Mitch Lucker

The misunderstanding out there is that we are a 'hard rock' band or a 'heavy metal' band. We've only ever been a rock n'…

— Angus Young

You can go to any small town in America, there's going to be a metal fan there. You can't say that about post-rock.

— David Pajo

We go out there every night, and we fight the battle. We don't care about people who don't think we're true metal. We hope…

— Zacky Vengeance

I've always said that there's a huge progressive rock, progressive metal audience out there, in the world.

— John Petrucci

We're definitely a metal band. We push a lot of boundaries. But at the core we're a metal band.

— Wayne Static