I think it's safe to say that 50% of the record buying metal community is people between the ages of 16 and 25 - people still in their teenage-angsty, early young-adult years.

Hate walks hand in hand with hate, and black metal especially is a genre that is full of white power bands.

I know plenty of hyper-intelligent metal people, but at the same time, there's this dumbass, hardheaded, macho attitude associated with it. For younger people, it's like a succubus.

I took music theory in high school and dropped out halfway through the semester because it was ruining music for me.

I think it's safe to say that 50% of the record buying metal community is people between the ages of 16 and 25 - people still in their teenage-angsty, early young-adult years.

I think metal draws dumb people. It's not exactly a thinking man's genre.

When you're not putting a bunch of chemicals into everbody, people tend not to fly off the handle.