[Disturbed] “I think that when you really listen to the album Indestructible, I think that’s the feeling you will get. I think people feel powerful when they listen to this music. I think they feel like they can climb any mountain, or break through a brick wall. That was the point we were trying to make. Over the years, we keep hearing from people that meet us backstage or on the street about how they would listen to our music before they engage in any kind of athletic sport. Or sometimes they hear our music before they go into battle, or combat. And those are powerful statements. People are using our music to make themselves the best that they can be." - John Moyer

[Warrel Dane] "I remember something so vivid: I was hanging out at the bar and was with this chick and we were hitting it off and she said, 'So, are you in a band? What kind of music do you play?' And I said, 'I play metal.' And she said, 'You can admit that?' That was the whole mentality of our city at the time and I just looked at her and said, 'Get the fuck out of my restaurant.'" - Warrel Dane

[Alchemist] “I think you could go as far as to say that it’s a lot more straight-forward sounding for us compared to some other releases, and that seems to be really striking a chord in a lot of people. There’s definitely a lot more aggression on this album than Austral Alien and that purely came out of us wanting to do something a little bit different once again." - Adam Agius

[Fate] "I would say anybody who can follow a main song structure and keep up the flow would be very influential. It doesn't have to be all over the place to be appealing and it took us time to realize that. But, now we are on our way to growing together as mature song writers. All I have to say is America is not ready for our sophomore release." - Devin Durrett

[Ihsahn] ”It’s a kind of no-win situation because if you repeat yourself, people will say you are repeating yourself. If you do something new, they complain about it not being the same thing they liked before. What I say is if you prefer that material, you always have those old albums. From my perspective it can be annoying to always be seen as my own little brother. Because I played in Emperor, everything I do will always be compared to Emperor.” - Ihsahn

[Pt II: Speak: Geoff Tate Recounts The Power Of TV, And Public Opinion, In Mindcrime’s Breakthrough] "All of a sudden we were kind of elevated in the public’s eye now as sort of this pop band, and these singles that were charting all over the place and we were doing award shows and everything was changing. We weren’t this experimental, sort of avant-garde band anymore to people’s eyes. And even ourselves. People were talking to us about creating action figure dolls and showing us prototypes, and we’re going, 'Wait a minute. Wait a minute, wait a minute. This, this is stupid. This is ridiculous. This is not what Queensrÿche is about.'" - Geoff Tate

[Speak: Geoff Tate Recounts The Power Of TV, And Public Opinion, In Mindcrime’s Breakthrough] “As soon as that thing hit MTV, the week later, we sold 500,000 copies. It just went through the roof, and it really showed us how powerful that television medium is. People, especially in this country, are just glued to the television, and they buy what’s sold to them. So here, you can work your butt off a number of different ways and play your songs and affect a very small amount of people with that, but when it’s packaged as a product and sold as a commercial, all of a sudden, everybody’s interested." - Geoff Tate

[Suidakra] "When we started, there were a lot of people that told us, 'Hey man, what are you doing? That combination won’t work.' Now there is this huge movement in Europe with all of this folk metal stuff. I think there are going to be a lot of bands that won’t survive this stuff because there are now many bands who think they can get very famous playing Viking metal, but I’m ok with it – I’m just a musician and I’ve been doing it for years and I want to play the music I love." - Arkadius

[Ensiferum] "Thirteen years ago, Markus Toivonen formed Ensiferum. His group expanded on the folk elements displayed by Amorphis and the melodic death/thrash of his southern neighbors in Gothenburg, Sweden. What he helped create was something revolutionary, not only for Ensiferum’s greater use of folk music, but for the group helping pave the path for the speed metal style that we have come to associate with Finnish bands such as Children of Bodom, Kalmah and Norther..."

[Hatchet] "The music industry today seems to be just about finding 'The next big thing'[and] people looking for what they can cash in on to make a short-term profit. So in result, you have a bunch of throwaway garbage that pollutes the market. Once they use it up for all its resources it’s on to the next trend. It seems to me that a lot of the bands out there are just trying to sell themselves purely on the image, or a 'Retro' fashion. Since what they are trying to copy has already been done a million times over, it doesn’t hold much substance." - Marcus Kirchen

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