"True metal warriors are those who have the balls to stand against the trends (even if the trend is to sound like Helloween) and retrieve inspiration from their own idea bank."
"The mainstream has its pitiful version of extreme music (because it's the latest fad) like Machine Head and faggot music like that. Your average shithead listening to Rob Flynn (remember Vio-Lence!) wants to hear heavy music but his mainstream confines won't allow for him to hear anything outside of the poseur realm. The world is full of brainless pussies."
"If you're playing metal like some bump on a log it's probably because you can't play. Metal is over-the-top and nothing less. It's stupid to play like Black Sabbath and act like hippies. You're not. It's the nineties and you look like a fool by doing this. New standards have been set in the '80s and '90s and if you can't live up to them then you should get the fuck out of the metal scene. Everyone should be playing guitar like Yngwie Malmsteen and burning churches!"
"If Heavy Metal is catchy in the 'wrong' way then it's not metal and should be condemned. In other words if you find yourself humming something gay like Poison's "Nothing But A Good Time," then you have fallen victim to something that's catchy in the 'wrong' way. Then again, if you find yourself humming Poison's "Nothing But A Good Time," then you are gay. End of discussion."
All quotes are from an interview in Isten 100 (released 1999). I've wanted to like Twisted Tower Dire ever since I first read this, but wasn't able to do it until I got "Make It Dark."
"The mainstream has its pitiful version of extreme music (because it's the latest fad) like Machine Head and faggot music like that. Your average shithead listening to Rob Flynn (remember Vio-Lence!) wants to hear heavy music but his mainstream confines won't allow for him to hear anything outside of the poseur realm. The world is full of brainless pussies."
"If you're playing metal like some bump on a log it's probably because you can't play. Metal is over-the-top and nothing less. It's stupid to play like Black Sabbath and act like hippies. You're not. It's the nineties and you look like a fool by doing this. New standards have been set in the '80s and '90s and if you can't live up to them then you should get the fuck out of the metal scene. Everyone should be playing guitar like Yngwie Malmsteen and burning churches!"
"If Heavy Metal is catchy in the 'wrong' way then it's not metal and should be condemned. In other words if you find yourself humming something gay like Poison's "Nothing But A Good Time," then you have fallen victim to something that's catchy in the 'wrong' way. Then again, if you find yourself humming Poison's "Nothing But A Good Time," then you are gay. End of discussion."
All quotes are from an interview in Isten 100 (released 1999). I've wanted to like Twisted Tower Dire ever since I first read this, but wasn't able to do it until I got "Make It Dark."
