Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.
I think there's a lot of death metal or doom metal dudes that somehow or another find a groove in it.
We're definitely a metal band. We push a lot of boundaries. But at the core we're a metal band.
Johnny Winter doesn't know the word 'subtlety.' But it works, it works.
Metallica - they're so demonic, they're crazy, I don't know how they do it.
I think that, as well as Strapping Young Lad kind of having the name for themselves based on brutality and aggression, I think there's also something to be said to the fact that every Strapping record is different. They're all different.
And I was a kid from L.A. and I just wanted to play thrash metal.
I remember being inspired by this band Godflesh, actually. They were a really heavy metal band, really nihilistic.
Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.
There is nothing whatsoever friendly about Slipknot. Corey may have a singing voice, but it's always been done with so much passion that it's always been brutal.
The Rolling Stones are violence. Their music penetrates the raw nerve endings of their listeners and finds its way into the groove marked 'release of frustration.'
It can only sound one way with the Prodigy - vicious, banging and, yeah, incites a riot.
I lie more with drums and the more heavy and darker aspects of music.
To me, 'Crash Love' is the most stripped-down record that we've made since the early Nineties, and I would say that 'I Hope You Suffer' is indicative of the overall tone of this record in being the opposite of that.
The album was very agressive. It kicks you right in the balls.
Everyone just wants to feel good, and I don't think that all music is designed to make you feel good. Sometimes it's to make you feel amped, or angry, or nervous. I was listening to a lot of Public Enemy when I made the record.
If you like energy, if you like attitude, if you like tough beats with black rhythms with a bit of soul and a bit of realness, come and check out the Prodigy.
I was always drawn to darker sounds, things with an edge and a little bit of grit, things that have a lot of emotion and a lot of drive.
I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude.
There is something powerful in Metallica, a will, a drive.
When I write in the studio, I tend to gravitate toward the ability to play really loud, aggressive, post-punk stuff, with big, heavy guitars and a big rock drum sound.
The industrial thing came about mainly through giving up trying to write pop songs in the early '90s. I don't think I was ever very good at pop music and as soon as I stopped trying, and started to write more the things I loved, it became much heavier and more aggressive.
I'm mostly known for writing electro and aggressive bangery house music. But before I started making electro, and while I was making electro, this sort of gushy, make-the-ravers-cry sort of sentimentality is so important to me.
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.
I don't play a lot of fancy guitar. I don't want to play it. The kind of guitar I want to play is mean, mean licks.
