[Meshuggah] "The touring process, we do everything ourselves, we’re self-managed so there is a lot to do that doesn’t pertain to the actual playing of the music. We can work together for a tremendous period of time, but I would say that the time we release an album and tour, we’re in each other’s faces constantly, for like a year and a half and we can deal with that, luckily. We have to have that tiny spark of inspiration and that takes a while. We can’t come off the road and write an album, there has to be an inspiration." - Marten Hagstrom

[Ava Inferi] "I tend to believe that there is so much dull and uninspiring music out there on the market. It’s dead music for dead souls. I want to deliver a vibrant emotion of something very much alive. Something to give inspiration and sense to all the bullshit we have to deal with in everyday life. This is my sanctuary; here I breathe." - Rune Eriksen

[Blotted Science] "Really, the thing that gave me the kick to Blotted was because I got tired of all the other cookie cutter prog metal out there. I wanted to do something that was challenging and different and would stand out from what I call ‘keyboard metal’, which is all these bands that think they’re progressive but are really not." - Ron Jazormbek

[The Company Band] "You're a real e-sleuth. Go get a job at Google." -Neil Fallon

[Talking Metal] "Many of the listeners listen to the show because of us and not because of our big name guests. Having said that, our guests helped put us on the map. There is no other internet radio show or podcast where you get rock stars as big as ours. John and I have always booked the guest for the podcast on our own with no booking agent or anything like that." - Mark Strigl

[Immolation] "We really like to keep the sound of the band. We aren’t going to change our style, like a lot of bands do, but we really try to be more aggressive, darker and more musical. For us, it’s more interesting to try to develop something that can bring this music more attention, and make it more interesting, rather than change it to be something else." - Robert Vigna

[Sworn Enemy] "It will just keep rolling. Most critics and most fans believe this is our best work to date. We all love the direction. We all love leads. We all grew up loving how Metallica leads make you sing, and how Slayer leads are so eerie. We all love that, so in our sound we wanted to get heavier, faster, not really melodic, but more solos and harmonies." - Lorenzo Antonucci

[Onesidezero] "We worked really hard to get this thing done, so you don’t want to quit before the miracle. You don’t know if there’s a miracle about it…when you get a taste of it, you want to see what’s next. We didn’t feel that we got the full what’s next. There were people that believed in what we were doing. So that’s what kept us going." - Jasan Radford

[Enemy of the Sun] "In a way I can really say I'm pretty lucky to find this kind of musicians, this kind of people in such a short time, but I think few times in your life you have to catch luck, so I hope I didn't misuse my luck with finding these guys, that my luck just stuck with this record." - Waldemar Sorychta

[Christian Death] "The image of the Abu Gharab victim is still linked to the abuse and corruption demonstrated by the current administration and it is frequently referred to by people in and outside the U.S. as an example of U.S. corruption. We suspended the man from a cross, a reference to the influence of the Christian right wing and its continuing hold on our culture and our morals, which are based on lies." - Valor Kand

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