The guitar can go at a scream. It can yell at you.
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.
Heavy metal is a universal energy -- it's the sound of a volcano. It's rock, it's earth shattering. Somewhere in our primal being we understand.
I'll never forget getting my first Nirvana, Soundgarden, and Alice in Chain records, and hearing that wonderful, beautiful darkness. And the rhythmic intensity, that's what attracted me more than anything else.
Morning comes like a scream through a pinhole.
Being inside Tiger Stadium is like being on the inside of a drum.
I crave music that'll sort of hurtle me into space and release me up there.
Gaslight Anthem's thing is its power. It's just like boom and explosions and loud, and play with everything you got.
It was so loud and so deep, it wasn't really sound at all, just something that turned the air hard and then hit you with it.
That noise in my earphones knocked my nose off and I had to pick it up and find it.
The harder stuff has always done it for me. Man, if it rips, I'll give it a thumbs up!
What I think of when I think of nu-metal: structured, heavy music that has a point. It's angry just like all the other music, but the bigger parts are bigger and the powerful parts are more powerful and the slow parts slower.
I want a bigger band with higher highs, a bigger ladder. And I want more bottom - I want an incredible amount of bottom. I want more noise. When I do a rock tune I want it to be so HUGE.
I try to just encompass the entire feeling and emotion behind the song the best way possible, and if that's 100,000 screaming guitars right in your face, then that's what's going down.
If there's anybody who's new to what I do, who maybe heard 'Liberation' or some of the songs off 'Epicloud' and thought, 'This is really cool, I could get into this,' you're going to hate 'Casualties.'
I don't think there are many long jumpers who can say they have jumped so hard that have lost their hearing.
The last thing I want is for people to say that the music is nice. It's not nice. It sounds good, but it's got grit, and it's got edge. It never veers into sweet.
I love a visceral sound, the kind that hits you in the belly.
I've always found music that is carnal very attractive but not in the most obvious way.
