This band is metal in that we have a lot of metal in our instruments, and there's quite a lot of metal on my belt buckle as well. — Mikey Way
There are basically two categories of music: Metal and bullshit. — Bruce Dickinson
Heavy metal drives me bonkers, it makes me want to vomit, heavy metal really is a pile of puke. — Ian Gillan
Heavy Metal is the most conservative of all loud music. Let's face it, not even a gym teacher could get as many people to dress alike. — Jello Biafra
I tried to take heavy metal... and balled it up and chopped it in half and really tried to create a new form of energy. I really tried to re-shape extreme music as I see it through my eyes. — Phil Anselmo
Hard rock for me is AC/DC, Def Leppard, Tesla, Kiss. Metal tends to be louder, ruder, darker, like Judas Priest, Slayer, Iron Maiden. — Eddie Trunk
There was a time when metal ruled the world and I don't see any reason why it should be different now. — Zacky Vengeance
I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude. — Kurt Cobain
I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild. — Iggy Pop
Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers. — Bruce Dickinson
You gotta look beyond the mainstream... the mainstream'll drown you, you know? There's always a pulse in the underground that I love. And the pulse in the underground is what keeps heavy metal alive. — Phil Anselmo
And it's a - it's a term that's based on contempt; it's a term that's based on fashion, style, elitism, satanism, and, everything that's rotten about rock 'n' roll. — Iggy Pop
We are the new "barbarians", forged in iron hardness in the fires of their hate and persecution. All over the world, we wait to pounce. — George Lincoln Rockwell
That's why for Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society the colors are black and white. There are no gray issues. Life is black and it's white. There's no in-between. — Zakk Wylde
Venom was a band that strongly influenced the image and the idea behind Slayer. — Tom Araya
Steampunk is what happens when goths discover brown — Cherie Priest
I'd go to hell to hear a good band. — Bix Beiderbecke
Black is modest and arrogant at the same time. — Yohji Yamamoto
Music is my religion. — Jimi Hendrix
Black hair, angelic face, and devil eyes. — Ilona Andrews
Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock. — Kurt Cobain
I'm more like an animalistic rock chick. — Taryn Manning
Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Rock music sounds like an octopus making love to a bagpipe. — Brother Dave Gardner
Black Metal Image Quotes
Life is like a piano, the white keys represent happiness and the black shows sadness, but as you go through life's journey, remember that the black keys also makes music.
Heavy Metal Music Quotes
Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away. — Peter Tork
We love not just Judas Priest music, but we love heavy metal and we love to get out on that stage every night and perform. It's a joy to be able to do it. — Glenn Tipton
At 15, I started listening to hard rock and heavy metal, but I would say it was more hard rock because I liked Kiss, Aerosmith, Ted Nugent, and eventually AC/DC. — Rick Rubin
Escape from the black cloud that surrounds you. Then you will see your own light as radiant as the full moon.
I like to put on hardcore when I have to clean my apartment, which I hate to do, but it's motivational. I like old heavy metal when I'm outside working on my car. Music has definite functions for me. — Peter Steele
I associate heavy metal with fantasy because of the tremendous power that the music delivers. — Christopher Lee
What I think of when I think of nu-metal: structured, heavy music that has a point. It's angry just like all the other music, but the bigger parts are bigger and the powerful parts are more powerful and the slow parts slower. — Austin Carlile
We're just trying to find some color in this black and white world
I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal. I play basketball and try to go diving at least once a year. I don't really have hobbies in the traditional sense... I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters. — Alan Dean Foster
I don't only like rock music. There are other forms of music that I find interesting. I would want to do everything, every kind of music. I wouldn't want to be limited to like playing heavy metal or whatever. — Mick Jagger
It's lifestyle music. It's not like some secretary who likes some pop song, but can't name who the band is; whereas a heavy metal fan is into every aspect of it. We'll see if rap holds up to that. Run-DMC seemed to be the Led Zeppelin of rap. — Rob Zombie
I have tons of friends in the heavy-metal music world, and just going to see them inspires me. — Kerry King
The ‘black metallers’ will probably continue to ‘get loaded,’ ‘get high,’ and in all other manners too behave like the stereotypical Negro; they will probably continue to get foreign tribal tattoos, dress, walk, talk, look and act like homosexuals, and so forth. — Varg Vikernes
Out of pure spite we pretty much always said the opposite of what the other said, no matter what they said, only to mark distance. That's how we ended up calling ourselves Satanists, despite the fact that we absolutely were not. There was not a single Satanist in the whole Black Metal scene in Norway in 1991-92. — Varg Vikernes
A person whose skin is metallic can no more have its reproduction restricted than a black-skinned person. Regarding life as a form of machinery and intelligent machines as people without our environmental limitations is essential in understanding FAP, the Final Anthropic Principle, which deals with evolution in the far future. — Frank J. Tipler
I can remember being in my pram: children stayed in their prams much longer then than they do now. A big bouncy pram with black covers and a hood with metal clips that could trap your fingers. I was looking up at my sister who was sitting on the pram seat, with her back to me. — Helen Dunmore
I still think the best metal bands have a blues feel. The first Black Sabbath album is kind of a bludgeoning of blues. Deep Purple also started out as a blues band. — Greg Ginn
I was listening to a lot of Norwegian black metal and death metal. There's a great history to Norwegian black metal. That music is very dark and violent, but it's also beautiful. — Brie Larson
I have found in black metal the lyrics are profoundly beautiful... a pathos and mythos at the same time. — Ryan Adams
When I get 13 or 14 years old, I get crazy with rock music, like, like, deeply crazy. And one of my favorite bands at that moment was, for example, like - bands like Metallica or Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd and Santana, you know? And then I start to play metal, actually, when I was - at the age of 15. — Juanes
Death metal uses a lot of white face paint and black hair dye to make its point. I quite enjoy this genre for its intensity, extremism and underlying irony: You have to be alive to play it and listen to it. — Henry Rollins
Here's a simple way to abolish golf's elitist and exclusionary image and make it a truly all-American sport: ditch that fifties-Republican-martini-drinker's green Brooks Brothers-style sport jacket and make the winner of the Masters slip on something in, say, black leather with plenty of metal studs. — Bruce McCall
For years I wouldn't listen to black metal from anywhere but Norway. — Mick Barr
Before the 90s, black metal wasn't a selling tool [and didn't] have money behind it. Then it became a pop sensation. Now that the record industry has collapsed and started to rot, things are livening up a bit again. — Mat McNerney
Black metal seemed way deeper than anything else, and I kind of got addicted to it. — Mick Barr
Black Sabbath invented heavy metal, in my opinion. — Eddie Trunk
Looking at her, he was in London again. He saw the gaslight and smelled the smoke and dirt and horses, the metallic tang of fog, the flowers in Kew Gardens. He saw a boy with black hair and blue eyes like Alec's. A girl with long brown curls and a serious face. In a world where everything went away from him eventually, she was one of the few remaining constants. — Cassandra Clare
Black metal - especially from the '90s - contains a certain production aesthetic that keys you into the emotive content. You feel it more intimately than, say, technical death metal, where everything is produced super-precisely. — Jorge Elbrecht
I hardly follow the Finnish metal scene at all at the moment. I'm more interested in traditional '80s heavy metal, and I'm still a little scared of black metal and death metal and their provocative imagery. — Jussi Lehtisalo
The main mineral in your cellphone, coltan [a black metallic ore], comes from the Eastern Congo. Multinational corporations are there exploiting the very rich mineral resources of the region. A lot of them are backing militias which are fighting one other to gain control of the resources or a piece of the resources. — Noam Chomsky
There are a good number of people creating black metal and black metal inspired music in the northwest. Much of this music is radically noncommercial and exists only on a very local, private level. — Kristoffer Rygg
As for complicating the black metal aesthetic, I don't care about that since it was never a goal of mine to lay out any particular preconceived aesthetic, let alone one of traditional black metal where pseudonyms are adopted. — Colin Marston
The term "black metal" has become a lot looser, or can include a larger range of sounds and extra-musical aesthetics, not just Satan and power chords. — Colin Marston
I think Americans such as Leviathan have done a lot to expand the sonic palette of black metal. — Colin Marston
I'll never understand the art world. But I kind of feel like there's been some art world/black metal crossovers happening for a while. — Mick Barr
I don't have much contact at all with other black metal bands. — Mick Barr
I think Nouveau Gloaming is a classic black metal record and I would hate to be a band that kept trying to recapture the same essence, but failing, for the rest of its days. — Mat McNerney
Hate walks hand in hand with hate, and black metal especially is a genre that is full of white power bands. — Blake Judd
I started getting seriously into music when I was a kid. 1978 was my big year. It just hit home. That was before real metal. There was Black Sabbath and that kind of stuff, but the real underground, hard stuff wasn't even around yet. It was cool to watch that happen and latch onto the next edge of things every time that progression happened. — Chris Reifert
I still listen to black metal all the time - that's obviously one of my favorite kinds of music - but I steer from it very strongly. — George Clarke
Yeah, sci-fi is definitely a big influence on Fear Factory. I've had people tell me we always sing about the same thing but it's like well, if we were a black metal band we'd sing about Satan, you know? What if we were a Christian metal band? All the songs would be about how much we loved Jesus. — Dino Cazares
I got into one Metallica record. That was about it. I never got into AC/DC or Black Sabbath or any of that. I was interested in the side of heavy metal that had interesting guitar ideas, but that was a very short-lived thing. — M. Ward
I write most of my first drafts on an old manual typewriter, a really old one. It's a big black metal "Woodstock" from about 1920. I try to write everything down at once, in one sitting. The longer stories in this collection are divided up into sections. Each section represents a different sitting, a different idea for the same story. — Arthur Bradford
Did you see him? I know the photo was grainy, but he looks like one of those death metal goth heads, or whatever they’re called. All dressed in black with long hair I took umbrage at my mother describing my boyfriend this way. John was the Lord of the Underworld. How else was he supposed to dress? — Meg Cabot
For a moment, I believe, there was a stillness. A shocking realization by all things - beetles, dormice, the spiders spinning their webs in the moonlight, even the hot metal of the tracks and the wind in the trees - that Death had just shrieked past like a stinking black eagle and made off with a remarkable man. — Alexander Masters
Your mama-akra sent that to you, akri, to hurt the heathen-god. Now it’s Dimonique time. The Simi can’t be bothered we no Greek god messing with the one who pays the plastic bills. Can the Simi have that black metal card she loves so much? (Simi) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
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