Blessed Quote by Zacky Vengeance

We are one of the last heavy metal bands. Iron Maiden has always been unique.

— Adrian Smith

Hopefully people can look at our band and see that we're a heavy rock band. We're definitely not a metal band, but we're a…

— Adam Rich

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

We're just some little metal band.

— Mitch Lucker

We're better than Metallica. We're better musicians, better players. Put it this way, they can try to walk onstage after an Iron Maiden show…

— Bruce Dickinson

Bands speak for us in this inevitable way that you can't get anywhere else because it is this perfect balance of artistic expression and…

— Taylor Goldsmith

Before we joined BABYMETAL, we weren't that familiar with metal, but we learned a lot from Metallica. Watching their shows and even meeting them,…

— Suzuka Nakamoto

Metallica is going to be one of those bands you look back on in the year 2008, that people will still listen to the…

— Jason Newsted

The power, the complexity, the aggression - there's so many things that would attract anyone to Metallica. I think that they are the prime…

— David Draiman

Metallica lives in a little bubble. We just do our own thing. We're not part of any trends or waves or fads. We can…

— Lars Ulrich

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

— Wayne Static

I know that there are a lot of sort of silly things that one thinks as a music listener about bands. I am a…

— James Mercer