Scott Ian

Anthrax, it’s something that gets you sick, it’s horrible, strong. It’s a heavy-metal band name if there ever was one.

Mitch Lucker

I just want to be considered a heavy metal band, because metal has always been around and will always be around. We’re just a heavier […]

Dave Barry

Headbangers are people who like heavy-metal music, which is performed by skinny men with huge hair who stomp around the stage, striking their instruments and […]

Martin Popoff

1994 was the nadir for heavy metal, although the rest of the ’90s weren’t much of a picnic either.

Glenn Tipton

We love not just Judas Priest music, but we love heavy metal and we love to get out on that stage every night and perform. […]

Dick Dale

Guitar Player Magazine says Dick Dale is the father of Heavy Metal, blowing up 48 amplifiers, creating the first power amplifier.

Phil Anselmo

I wasn’t that wild about that. I told them basically if they were really going to want to bring back heavy metal to a program […]

Ginger Baker

They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that’s the case, there should be an immediate abortion.

Rufus Wainwright

I think the minute you mention death, people run for the hills – unless it’s heavy metal. People do not like death.

Dave Mustaine

The guitar influence that affected my songwriting came from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal.