Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Erik Rutan.
Last updated on April 14, 2025.
Erik Rutan is an American heavy metal musician and producer from New Jersey. He is the guitarist and lead vocalist of Hate Eternal and lead guitarist for Cannibal Corpse, who he fully joined in 2021 after acting as a fill-in guitarist during their 2019 tour. Rutan has also spent time with Morbid Angel and Ripping Corpse. When not performing, Rutan operates his own recording studio in Florida called Mana Recording Studios.
I've always written everything as two guitars and I never thought I'd find that right person.
I've always risen to the challenge and faced adversity; it's just a part of who I am.
For me personally, and as a band, there are a lot of challenges. Being in a band is like war, it's a battle - to focus, to really put together something that's formidable and then keeping everything together.
Everything has it's own vibe. Every song has a different place, I guess, of where and when and what was going on and things of that nature.
I've always used Old English in certain songs.
I've always tried to be kind of poetic in my lyrical approach.