Industrial Metal Quotes

Anyone who likes Static-X will definitely like my solo record.

I remember being inspired by this band Godflesh, actually. They were a really heavy metal band, really nihilistic.

Pighammer' is my pure vision of what I want to do, but at the same time, if you like Static-X, you will love 'Pighammer.'

Justin Broadrick's career isn't widely celebrated, but it's still shockingly uncompromising. From his place at the beginning of grindcore with Napalm Death to his role in Godflesh's expansion of industrial metal, the U.K. musician specializes in artistic hairpin turns.

Self-examination with a close-up mirror in an antiseptic environment is what Nine Inch Nails is based on.

I'm sure there is a group of people that assume Nine Inch Nails is just noise and chaos - or whatever it might be dismissed as, and sometimes is.

'Blood Host' is super heavy. Especially on the verses, it has an industrial stomp. It's one of my favourite tracks just because the plot of it is so heavy. It's a total crushing tune; it doesn't get any heavier than that main riff, just a straight quarter-note powerhouse.

I didn't really know about Marilyn Manson - it's not my sort of music, not exactly the sort of thing I would curl up and listen to!

When we first started out, we had no idea what metal music was all about. But now we listen to everything from cute songs to all sorts of metal music.

There does seem to be a kind of split. There are those people who are more entrenched in the early electronic years, and new people who have come to it because of people like Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson.

Rob Zombie was White Zombie and I was Static-X. I wrote and produced everything.

It turns out that there's a huge community of African-American musicians whose main influence is Throbbing Gristle.

It's totally produced now. It's almost like a conveyor belt of what metal's supposed to be like these days. It's not music to me.

Rammstein's music demands German lyrics.

Pighammer' is what I envisioned the first Static-X record to be; trancier, a bigger electronic vibe with more keyboards.

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

The idea of Marilyn Manson has been brewing in my head, one form or another, since I was about 12 years old at a Christian high school in Canton, Ohio.