I've been a huge Megadeth fan for years.
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.
Well, to be honest with you, yes there is and there is not. But as I am a fan of this kind of music as well as the rest of the guys naturally are - and being a fan, we kind of get pleased by our music as fans and as being in SLAYER.
I could do Rust In Peace again, but I don't want to. I could have followed that formula but, God, why? I would have to have done so much heroin and cocaine - and I wasn't going to. Not if I'm paying for it!
I think there's a lot of death metal or doom metal dudes that somehow or another find a groove in it.
I always say, 'Hey, I'm in Metallica, but I wasn't on the Black Album.'
Anyone who likes Static-X will definitely like my solo record.
The metalcore has been left behind. It's not something that any of us find enjoyment in listening to, so it's obviously not the direction we would write songs in.
We're definitely a metal band. We push a lot of boundaries. But at the core we're a metal band.
I love 'Dogman' by King's X and Living Colour's 'Stain.'
Metallica - they're so demonic, they're crazy, I don't know how they do it.
I like that Metallica has found a way to have these non-pedestrian arrangements but then the vocal melody is strong and intense. I've always appreciated that as a fan.
'Far Beyond Driven' was a record that was probably ahead of its time, and to this day, it still sounds as fresh as just about any other band that's out there. It was a record that was pushed to another level.
The first 'Charlemagne' album is metal, of course, but what I sang was more symphonic.
Death metal has now become exclusively about being evil, Satanic and playing full speed ahead. It's not what I'm into at all.
Hard rock for me is AC/DC, Def Leppard, Tesla, Kiss. Metal tends to be louder, ruder, darker, like Judas Priest, Slayer, Iron Maiden.
And I was a kid from L.A. and I just wanted to play thrash metal.
Without Metallica, I wouldn't play the way that I do.
I was always very into heavy metal, and heavy metal is full of emotion and extremes, and I think that's the same in dance music.
As long as it says Metallica on the record it's Metallica.
What we're doing is special and unique in its own way but still keeping it heavy. For me as a listener, part of the journey I'm on with Metallica, there's just a certain edge that needs to be there.
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.'
Heavy music is really getting its due. With nu-metal fallen by the wayside, real metal has started to surface.
I think every Metallica album is unique in its own way.
I am a closet metal fan.
