Pantera revolutionized the sound and the approach to heavy metal. It's been regurgitated. Once you up the production on a product and not just the playing but the actual production, then it's going to up the ante.

I wasn't that wild about that. I told them basically if they were really going to want to bring back heavy metal to a program on MTV, then they are really going to have to get in touch with what real heavy metal is.

We definitely have a hardcore following.

I may be loaded. I may be drunk. But I ain't stupid.

You gotta look beyond the mainstream... the mainstream'll drown you, you know? There's always a pulse in the underground that I love. And the pulse in the underground is what keeps heavy metal alive.

I am the type that cannot stay put in living in the past and solely in the past. It's not healthy and it doesn't feel right.

To me, I'm for a band whose forefront is the music.