Extreme Music Quotes

You want to meet a bunch of really friendly people? Go to a Slayer concert. There'll be some real psychos there, but most of those people will take care of each other.

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

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

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

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

Creating any type of art is all about mood. I've been making extreme music in one fashion or another for decades. And truthfully, Down has a big enough fan base to where I could remain content to do only that, but music is a vast territory and I am an explorer. And I'm a lover of all things considered extreme in music.

I played in a death-metal band. People either loved us or hated us. Or they thought we were OK.

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

When I make music, I tend to make music that are really over the top.

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

Pop music I have always loved best. But the more extreme, fascist-led examples of the music business I tend to detest the most.

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

I really loved crunk. I loved the extreme nature of it, how repetitious it was, and how these basic, angry chants would just be repeated over and over again.

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

We want metal to be dangerous again. How cool would that be?

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.

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 would love to have acidy spit.

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

I love music. I love every kind of extreme sort of music, and many different genres, and if I were to have to dedicate myself to just one kind of genre, I would feel kind of gypped. I'd be like, man, I wish I could do this or that. And really all it takes is trying it out.

I would categorize Die Antwoord as pop music: extreme, futuristic pop music.

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.

I see kids in Cradle of Filth shirts at our shows, which is awesome.

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