Brian Posehn Quotes

When I was in high school, I listened to a lot of death metal bands.

I was a big fan of hardcore music growing up, black metal.

Venom was a band that strongly influenced the image and the idea behind Slayer.

I like thrash metal and black metal, stuff like that.

I think there's a lot of death metal or doom metal dudes that somehow or another find a groove in it.

Starting in junior high school, through high school, I was very into metal or black metal and death metal specifically.

Black-metal is my favourite. Mayhem are one of my favourite bands. But whenever Slayer comes to town, I am going to that show.

I really don't want to be associated with the low-brow Black Metal genre. If you want to know what I mean when I say that, just have a look at an Immortal video on YouTube or something. It's so dumb I don't know what to say, really, and it's so ridiculous, we can barely tell the difference between the real stuff and the parodies.

The metalcore has been left behind. It's not something that any of us find enjoyment in listening to, so it's obviously not the direction we would write songs in.

I like hard, aggressive music.

Death metal has now become exclusively about being evil, Satanic and playing full speed ahead. It's not what I'm into at all.

To some people heavy metal is Motorhead and to others it's Judas Priest.

I was always searching for something bigger, faster and better, and Slayer came up with that.

Hellhammer is the best drummer ever, and Euronymous is a musical genius.

I am no friend of the modern so-called 'black metal' culture. It is a tasteless, lowbrow parody of Norwegian black metal circa 1991-92, and if it was up to me, it would meet its dishonorable end as soon as possible.

Basically, death metal, as a musician on my part, it just changed everything as far as the technicality and where you could take music.

I just like heavy music in general - from heavy rock and heavy metal and heavy rap and heavy everything. I've always been attracted to it.

For me, I'm way more at home in heavy metal than I am in classical music.

And I was a kid from L.A. and I just wanted to play thrash metal.

When I first got involved in the underground metal scene in '82, '83, there were only about five or six major Death or Black Metal bands around. There were so many other bands that were inspirational, that really helped.

Slayer just goes from generation to generation to generation, because it's just so great.

I've always liked the heavier stuff. I've always loved Tool and System of a Down, Korn and Nine Inch Nails.

I am a closet metal fan.

Hard rock for me is AC/DC, Def Leppard, Tesla, Kiss. Metal tends to be louder, ruder, darker, like Judas Priest, Slayer, Iron Maiden.

It was awesome growing up in New Orleans because there were great metal bands, there were great hardcore bands, there were great thrash metal bands in the middle '80s and what-not. But then, take me out of New Orleans, and I moved to Fort Worth in 1987, and there's a scene there, too. And Texas absolutely has a different sound.