“The Fight: What does it mean and where does it come from? An Essay: Homo sapien. A man. He is alone in the universe. A punker. Still a man. He is alone in the universe, but he connects. How? They hit each other. No clearer way to evaluate whether or not you're alive. Now. Complications. A reason to…”— James Merendino, Stevo, Matthew Lillard, imdb.com
“When fans of metal listen to the music, they don’t feel rage, anger, or despair, but “power, joy, peace, and wonder,”— Jason karaian, qz.com
“For me and him, we were always fans of of music. And I still am today. In the metal world, it’s like, if you like speed metal, then people who like 80s hair metal are gay. We just liked everything as long as it had talent and heart. Dime loved everyone from Blues Saraceno to Eddie Van Halen to Mick…”— Vinnie Paul, loudersound.com
“A lot of indie music that I grew up with was very depressing but metal had lots of different expressions. But there are new metal bands where it almost became a fad to be damaged, depressed and sad. Your point about a wave of R&B and trap artists that are out right now singing about depressing stuff…”— Mike Shinoda, interview.de
“I definitely think that it continues to grow and become more diverse; particularly the rock genre. There’s so many subgenres nowadays in rock and metal it’s almost impossible to keep track. I love that! I love the different flavors, I love how unique and diversified it’s become. I love the loyalty o…”— David Draiman, sflonstage.com
“You have to understand the kinds of institutions these places were. Imagine an incredibly difficult Catholic hardcore boarding school, only instead of priests they were full of rabbis. Basically we were not allowed to watch television, go to the movies, we were not allowed to read a newspaper. We co…”— David Draiman, loudersound.com
“There was a band called Blue Cheer, who I think were probably the originators of heavy metal because they didn’t really have traditional roots in the blues. They didn’t have a mission. It was just about being loud. Cream were very loud, too, and we got caught up in having huge banks of Marshall amps…”— Eric Clapton, uncut.co.uk