Quotes About Genre

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

Arch Enemy is a female-fronted metal band, but so is Delain. They don't sound alike at all. The only thing they both are are metal bands, but the style within metal is so massively different that it doesn't really say much whether there's a girl singing or not. So it's really not so important.

Even when I wrote death metal songs for a death metal record, I was always trying to do my best to make it as catchy as possible because that's how I like music.

I was not a metal fan.

The first 'Charlemagne' album is metal, of course, but what I sang was more symphonic.

Black Sabbath invented heavy metal, in my opinion.

Metal isn't necessarily aggressive. There's metal that's contemplative, there's metal that's sad, and there's metal that's exuberant. No genre is limited in what it can express.

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 band, you'd be an idiot.

I just think that a metal band covering a bunch of metal songs is so boring, so 'done before.'

I've always said if you're comparing movies to music, then horror would be the black metal of the categories.

So many bands would say that they were alternative, or they were this or that... 'Heavy metal' was a pretty uncool word after about 1992; it was almost like, 'Stay away.' But it didn't bother us one bit. And our fans were the best ever.

Cinderella obviously got caught up in the hair metal scene, but they were such a blues band. And such a good live band.

I don't think there's any music that you hear on the radio today that would be possible without Jimi Hendrix. Rock, blues-rock, heavy metal, any guitar stuff when you get right down to it - Jimi did it. He's certainly the guy who basically invented the blues-rock genre for guitar players.

My dad raised me on metal, but my first serious love was hip-hop.

I don't know what genre you would put us into, and I'm always telling people that. When I'm trying to explain In This Moment's sound to them, all I can say is that its diverse-sounding, with influences such as metalcore's breakdowns, metal in general and some melodic rock.

I don't think we're metalcore. To me, metalcore is more like hardcore-influenced metal, with lots of breakdowns. I think we're a lot more diverse sounding than that.

We believe that many people who already like metal and those who like other genres will be accepting to this new type of metal.

I listen to jazz, Western classical, contemporary, Bollywood and heavy metal.

Heavy metal these days is what I call wimpy.

I don't know about all this 'speed metal' and everything... It's all metal to me.

Even when metal was on the radio, it was always the watered down stuff. There were only a couple real metal bands - Metallica is one - that broke through.

Without Metallica, we wouldn't have a lot of the bands that we have now.

I didn't realize Metallica was as big as they were. I just thought it was my buddy Kirk's band - we went to high school together. I wasn't really following metal.

To me, rock n' roll is rock n' roll. I try to think of it as that. To me, Funkadelic and Metallica exist in the same world.