Metal Legacies

“And there’s Cliff [Burton] banging his head like he’s playing for 10,000 people in an arena…”

“I feel good about who I am just ’cause I feel good about who I am.”

Becerra once again weighs in on the debate.

If at first you don’t succeed…

Metal’s biggest band doesn’t forget to stop and smell the roses.

The Canadian musician had a vision that record companies just couldn’t see.

Listen to the man, for he was on the best Morbid Angel albums.

“Well, all decades have been amazing for death metal…”

“We kind of had our foot in the door in all these different genres, and in some ways I almost felt like it hurt us ’cause we weren’t just one thing.”

Owens recorded two albums with the band.

It ain’t Peace Sells… But Who’s Buying?”

“And as far as sound, I mean, they were huge. They’re still huge. Their sound was so big and it was so tight and so Metallica.”

“I had always perceived the nature of music to be rooted in something beyond people, divine in a way.”

He also wonders what …And Justice For All would have been with Cliff in the mix.

“It’s gotta be the good and the bad, and it’s gotta be all of it, and there’s gotta be continuous access.”

Dunking on Lars could be going out of style.

When your dad is Eddie Van Halen, it’s gotta be […]

“I feel like a piece of me has died, but also like I didn’t really know this person. So it’s a really hard thing to process.”

What’s your take on the whole nu-metal thing?

“You stick to your guns, you have your own personal truth and you stick to it, and you don’t have to ever remember the lies. Sometimes you will upset people and disappoint people.”