Progressive Metal Quotes

We're definitely a metal band. We push a lot of boundaries. But at the core we're a metal band.

The first 'Charlemagne' album is metal, of course, but what I sang was more symphonic.

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.

The style of music that we're playing, this progressive metal style, has always been an upstream battle for us. We don't usually get a lot of commercial exposure.

Heavy music is really getting its due. With nu-metal fallen by the wayside, real metal has started to surface.

Dream Theater music, there's a lot of background and context to the songs, as far as the subject matter and the albums they come from.

We had an extreme reaction to Storm Corrosion. We were proud of it, but it divided the audience. The metal fans were divided. Some went with it. Some hated it, since it wasn't the progressive metal supergroup they were waiting for.

I think one of the biggest sleepers that people are going to be able to dig into later is 'Fermi Paradox,' it's the song before 'Exist.' To me it's got the coolest, it's just so bizarre because it's got one of the most melodic vocal melodies, but we put it over a black metal blast beats.

There is one Metallica. We have many styles, it's called Metallica.

In all of my years in this business, I've always been part of either a progressive band or a metal band.

The C+ amps is vintage at this point, and it definitely has a certain sound to it. I wanted something that was going to keep Dream Theater in more of a current musical landscape, as far as being the producer and producing the type of album I wanted to hear.

Dream Theater has never been a band that hit at a particular fashionable point and said, 'OK, that's basically it.'

Dream Theater was my baby. I formed it from the beginning, out of college, and I lived a lifetime with them.

Metal never dies. Sometimes it's not on the radio and sometimes it's not at the forefront, but heavy rock or metal, or whatever the hell you want to call it, has always been around and will always be around.

In a lot of ways, Metallica is like a fusion band. It's not necessarily jazz or any of that, but the music is grooving.

Musically, 'Fallen' is a cross between 'Belus' and something new, inspired more by the debut album and 'Det Som Engang Var' than by 'Hvis Lyset Tar Oss' or 'Filosofem.'

When Dream Theater first started, we were touring in a van and playing clubs.

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

I'm completely open about the fact that I don't love every genre of metal. I like what I like. It's got to have some vocal quality and some semblance of melody.

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

Out of Berklee Dream Theater was born and we've been together ever since. I didn't have to taste that feeling of defeat.

Even when metal was on the radio, it was always the watered down stuff. There were only a couple real metal bands - Metallica is one - that broke through.

For me, a band like Gojira brings something really cool and new to the table.

Progressive metal is one of the hardest styles of music to pull off live, especially while providing a tasteful show.

I've always said that there's a huge progressive rock, progressive metal audience out there, in the world. We see it when we're on tour.