A Quote by Geezer Butler
If you are a pop band, don't say you're a metal band. Poison and Warrant were about as metal as the Backstreet Boys.
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Yeah, sci-fi is definitely a big influence on Fear Factory. I've had people tell me we always sing about the same thing but it's like well, if we were a black metal band we'd sing about Satan, you know? What if we were a Christian metal band? All the songs would be about how much we loved Jesus.
We were never the cool band to like. They tried to put us into a hair-metal thing, but we weren't really Warrant or Poison. We were always outside the box. I think we had a little niche that nobody had - maybe the funkiness had something to do with it.
I was in a rock band; I was my own folk singer; I was in a death metal band for a very short time; I was in a cover band, a jazz band, a blues band. I was in a gospel choir.
I never thought of us as a punk band, a metal band, or a new wave band. Just as a band band.
We're definitely a metal band. We push a lot of boundaries. But at the core we're a metal band.
Arch Enemy is a female-fronted metal band, but so is Delain. They don't sound alike at all. The only thing they both are are metal bands, but the style within metal is so massively different that it doesn't really say much whether there's a girl singing or not. So it's really not so important.
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We're just a metal band. Whenever people ask me what kind of music we play, I always say metal.
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Cinderella obviously got caught up in the hair metal scene, but they were such a blues band. And such a good live band.
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