[Enslaved – Still Heavier Than Time] “It is the benefit of a long, steady process. We’re not exactly an overnight sensation. People don’t know us from song or one album. We have a lot of fun with that on the Facebook page, people being into so many different eras. We keep on being surprised and astonished of the combinations sometimes that people have three favorite albums…that’s really cool. I’d like to think the majority of people that go to the shows like the majority of the songs.” – Ivar Bjornson

[Hatesphere – Going Deeper and Deeper] “Well, an urge to play live and a realistic vision on how it is to play this kind of music. You need to be able to spend a lot of time away from home, as we play quite a lot. You have to own that stage, every time you enter it - and you need to play your instrument well, ha-ha. The personality is very, very important as well, as we have to spend that much time together... damn, now it suddenly sounds like a dating show!” – Pepe Hansen

[3 – Women, Children (and Ghosts) First] “So we’ve been through that and it basically made us stronger. Unfortunately, it stalled out our momentum because we made this other record we wouldn’t have made otherwise and when the deal fell apart, right after we signed, we bought out the contract and were free to go with someone else again, so we went right back to Metal Blade. We wanted to make this record and we’re really excited and Metal Blade is really excited about this record. Roadrunner’s loss, man.” – Joey Eppard

[Night in Gales – Scars of Tomorrow] “‘Five lives, five sins, five scars upon our skin’ says the title track, and that´s what it means. We are those scars; our five albums are those five scars. We wear those marks with pride, and these scars remind us of how we became the persons we are now. Each album is like a snapshot of the world you live in when you write it. So these scars are both our lives and our legacy. And what kind of men would we be if we didn't have any damn scars?” - Björn Gooßes

[The Living Fields – When Daylight Doesn’t Die ] “The title of the album [Running Out of Daylight] was set very early on and it was always intended to be about Galileo and his last days under house arrest for heresy. While under arrest he was losing his eyesight so that is the most direct meaning of the song, i.e. his vision becomes ever more dim until complete blindness overtakes him, analogous to the light of day disappearing into night. The words can have a number of meanings so it is left for the listener/reader to draw their own conclusions.” – Jason Muxlow

[Nightrage – Condemning the Club] “I love melodies for sure and I think that I have my own way to incorporate some cool melodies into the wall of guitars that we always have. My songwriting style comes from older times like the 80s when bands knew how to create some nice hooks and do some good songs. I think this factor is the one that makes Nightrage very unique that we never sell-out or we never forgot where we are coming from. We always know and love to be a metal band. Having all those influences combined with the metal aggressiveness of our music, makes us the band that we are.” - Marios Iliopoulos

[Anthrax’s Joey Belladonna – Singing With the Enemy ] “I’ve always been ready. Even with the [2005] reunion, I was ready to roll. Then they got someone out of the blue. I’d like to know who actually did that. I was like, ‘What the heck happened? Why do you even bother?’ It was two-to-three years of that. I guess he [Dan Nelson] came up with a great demo for everyone, an expensive one for everyone to try things. But to sell it, that it would be the right way to go, it just shows that it’s not an easy thing to muster this up. We are a unique package of musicians and there’s no band out there that has a lineup that if you’re trying to recreate it, you’re not going to have much luck.” – Joey Belladonna

[Anthrax’s Frank Bello – Bermuda Shorts Not Necessary] “Just being human you have to ask that question. Being the stubborn New Yorkers that we are, that’s the tenaciousness of Anthrax. It is that kind of band, that New York attitude, the way we grew up, the ‘never say die.’ You know, you fall off, dust yourself off and get back up and go for it. We know what kind of band we are and it’s always been like this since the inception of Anthrax.” – Frank Bello

[World Under Blood – Verbal Scare Tactics] “I’m not bitter about the fact that people won’t buy my records. I’m concerned about the future and these kids that have a sense of entitlement that they can get their entertainment for free. Everything they do is for free, except their cell phone bill, which their parents pay for. I’d say the majority of today’s teenage population has no real future because they blow off school. Pretty much all they do is fuck, spill beer, and stand out in the front of the movie theater instead of going in.” – Deron Miller

[Arch Enemy – Legions of the Damned] “For us, it’s easy because Angela [Gossow] is very business-minded. She has a good head for business and budgets, which I don’t have [laughs]. I write riffs [laughs]. It’s a great combination when you have someone like that in the band and take that on. For us, it has been amazing, and it’s a lot more profitable for us an organization. The industry is changing so much that I don’t if I ever see us having an outside management coming us. I only see us as being autonomous.” – Michael Amott

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