M. Shadows Quotes

The power chords in 'Come Sail Away' were super heavy to me as a kid. Metal? No. Hard rock? At times, for sure.

I'm working on a proper rock record, a good, old-school rock record. Finally.

'Master of Reality' rules; it's one of my favorite records of all time. It has some of the most evil riffs on it - and some of the sexiest riffs as well.

To me, Sabbath was always JUSt a really heavy blues band. That s all we were. We just took those blues roots and made them heavier.

Then as I got older, I always gravitated towards the hard stuff, Born To Be Wild, then Black Sabbath.

A lot of people are surprised by my love of heavy metal. I fell in love with heavy metal almost before any other genre. One of the first concerts I went to was a Donnington Monsters Of Rock concert.

AC/DC is a prime example of taking that blues rock thing and just living in that world. They only really move the furniture around a little on each album, but it still works.

The guitar influence that affected my songwriting came from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal.

We had no clue what heavy metal was. We were like: 'What's that?'

'Mama I'm Coming Home' is one song that I think is incredible. One of his best songs ever written. Lemmy wrote the lyrics to that.

I've often talked about metal being the underdog in rock n' roll music.

I have always felt I was more accurately a Hard Rock musician.

AC/DC's 'Highway to Hell' is the greatest meshing of vocal, guitar, and content I've ever heard. That's what I aspire to.

I got into Kiss before I got into anybody. The first thing I heard was 'Detroit Rock City.' I heard it in the school library, where I lived.

Anytime rock and metal can get on mainstream TV at all, it's a good thing.

Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock.

My favorite type of music to sing and to listen to, you know, rock. It's not always metal, but you know, half the time it is. Metal's cool, you know? Not everybody on 'American Idol' listens to metal.

Black Sabbath invented heavy metal, in my opinion.

I was a hard rocker when I was in high school.

I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal.

Give metal a chance!

Heart has always been a rock band. It's always been hard-rock.

I was mostly influenced by bands like Black Sabbath and Judas Priest - Metallica's 'Kill 'Em All' was also a hell of an inspiration.

I've always loved big riffs and chunky guitars.

Sure, some tracks are not as good as others, but we've written some really strong, classic stuff, like 'The Number of the Beast,' 'Hallowed Be Thy Name,' and 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner.'