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There's real potency in metal. Metal fans love metal as if it's a nation they would fight for. It's not diluted by pop culture.

Metal has its own code of cool, but it's not really trying to be cool. And that was very refreshing to me, that metal is very much about expressing something that seems awesome to you even if, at the time, much of the world was going to mock and reject it.

People sometimes tell me that I don't talk or act or look like a metal fan. Well, what does a metal fan look like? I've found people from all walks of life who love metal.

The biggest compliments I've heard about 'That Metal Show' are the ones from people that say that they don't even listen to this kind of music, but, 'We love watching the show.'

Metal guys are huge nerds. A good percentage of them are either horror or sci-fi or comic book or fantasy nerds.

Metallica is a very complicated, fragile thing. On the outside, it's all metal, but on the inside it's very delicate.

A lot of people are surprised by my love of heavy metal. I fell in love with heavy metal almost before any other genre. One of the first concerts I went to was a Donnington Monsters Of Rock concert.

Metal never goes away. It drifts in and out, but the true fans are always there for it.

It kills me when I see some metal band trying to pass themselves off as an 'alternative band.'

I remember when metal was something you really had to search out, and now I hear it on car commercials.