Death Metal Quotes

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

  Rufus Wainwright

  Running, Thinking, People

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• I'd like to imagine I won't end up in Hell, but I think I've done too much acid and listened to too much death metal to sit on a cloud next to God with angels floating above my head.

  Dave Grohl

  Angel, Thinking, Clouds

  Maxim Magazine, January 2008.

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• I was listening to a lot of Norwegian black metal and death metal. There's a great history to Norwegian black metal. That music is very dark and violent, but it's also beautiful.

  Brie Larson

  Beautiful, Dark, Black

  "Brie Larson Talks SHORT TERM 12, Rupert Wyatt’s THE GAMBLER, Receiving the 2014 Santa Barbara International Film Festival Virtuosos Award, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 7, 2014.

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• I don't want to preach, but I would like to see metal become more of a united thing. I'm tired of people breaking things down into categories like thrash metal and death metal. I think people tend to stick to one category, and I want people to support all kinds of bands, whether it be Slayer or Queensryche or Death. I miss the days when it was acceptable to listen to everything from Priest and Maiden to Slayer and Venom.

  Chuck Schuldiner

  Tired, Thinking, People

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• When I was in high school, I listened to a lot of death metal bands.

  Amy Lee

  School, Band, Metals

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• I played in a death-metal band. People either loved us or hated us. Or they thought we were OK.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, People

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• Death metal uses a lot of white face paint and black hair dye to make its point. I quite enjoy this genre for its intensity, extremism and underlying irony: You have to be alive to play it and listen to it.

  Henry Rollins

  Play, White, Hair

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• I've played death metal, punk rock, hardcore, funk... I've done it all. And all there really is music and at the end of the day, anybody who has a record and puts out a record that's basically the same song 13 times over on one record; to me they're just cheating the fans.

  Cristian Machado

  Cheating, Song, Rocks

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• In death metal, a lot of guys are Eddie Van Halen disciples, but they take his style to really expressionistic places. It's a real pleasure for me to hear people pushing their craft.

  John Darnielle

  Real, People, Guy

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I am a middle-aged opera queen in loafers that makes out I am a 16 year old death metal skater... It's all fake! My hair is fake, my body is fake and my teeth are kind of fake

  Rick Owens

  Queens, Hair, Years

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• At the time of starting this band I was listening to tons of death metal. However, the bands that made me want to be in a band to begin with were groups like Korn, Deftones, Slayer, Sepultura... everything that my dad would buy and bring home to me and my brother saying 'Hey, listen to this'.

  Mitch Lucker

  Brother, Dad, Home

  Source: www.theaureview.com

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• I just had such a blast coming up with this corporate dweeb [in the Sex Tape], a sort of nerd who was also doing coke and listening to death metal and was obsessed with Walt Disney art. I just felt it was a type of guy you hadn't really seen before, and I was so happy with how it came out.

  Rob Lowe

  Art, Sex, Guy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Now since I've gotten back into it, I've been listening to a lot more of the 1990s death metal type stuff.

  David Pajo

  Listening, Stuff, Type

  "Dead Child". Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. April 22, 2008.

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• As far as specific bands from the 90s death metal era, I love Death, Carcass, Possessed, Morbid Angel, Gorguts, Autopsy, Atheist, etc.

  David Pajo

  Atheist, Angel, Band

  "Dead Child". Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. April 22, 2008.

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• In almost every interview someone asks what does HIM stand for. I can't even remember our latest lie about that. When Hanson was hot, we said it means Hanson Is Murder. The name doesn't have a particular history. His Infernal Majesty was a totally different band. I think HIM derives from some death metal joke.

  Ville Valo

  Lying, Mean, Thinking

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• Ladies. Large masses of girls are often prone to this salutation. I hate being mollified with this unsolicited "ladies" business. I know we're all women. I am conscious of my breasts. Do I have to be conscious of yours as well? Do men do this? Do they go, "Men: Meet for ribs in the shed after the game. Keg beer, raw eggs, and death metal only." I would imagine not.

  Sloane Crosley

  Girl, Hate, Beer

  Sloane Crosley (2012). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.133, Portobello Books

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• Did you see him? I know the photo was grainy, but he looks like one of those death metal goth heads, or whatever they’re called. All dressed in black with long hair I took umbrage at my mother describing my boyfriend this way. John was the Lord of the Underworld. How else was he supposed to dress?

  Meg Cabot

  Mother, Hair, Long

  Meg Cabot (2013). “The Abandon Trilogy: Abandon, Underworld and Awaken”, p.288, Pan Macmillan

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