Heavy Metal Singers

"It's the same old song, You've gotta be somewhere at sometime, And they never let you fly. It's like broken glass, You get cut before you see it, So open up your eyes."

"I'll smash your face in, But with a smile, All together you'll never Be stronger than me."

"If there isn't light when no one sees Then how can I know what you might believe?"

"We made the mountains shake With laughter as we played, Hiding in our corner of the world. Then we did the demon dance And rushed to nevermore, Threw away the key and locked the door."

"The world is full of kings and queens Who blind your eyes and steal your dreams, It's heaven and hell, oh well."

"Love is a never ending smile."

"Summer nights are colder now, They've taken down the fair, And all the lights have died somehow, Or were they ever there?"

"All my life, it seems Just a crazy dream Reaching for somebody's star, Like an open door That you've passed before, But you never had the key."

"Where was your star? Was it far, was it far? When did we leave? We believed, we believed, we believed (...)"

"But life's not a wheel With chains made of steel, So bless me."

"I refuse to be beaten in any way, shape or form, so I'm gonna beat this too."

"I'm lucky that I am a very hard person and strong within my beliefs, so that this hasn't really been a problem for me, y'know, I just get cancer, I'll kick the hell outta you."

"I brought melody and classicalness and a great amount of musicality to this band. Ozzy began it, and he deserves all the accolades he can get because he helped invent this kind of music. What he did was absolutely right for what it was, but music grew at that point, and I think it grew beyond what Ozzy was capable of giving an audience from a musical standpoint."

"That was obvious that there are people in this world who always going to try and take advantage of you — and do take advantage of you. Those kings and queens are the people who think that they are so important, who want to take advantage of you, and that makes your life Heaven and Hell. Promises that you're going to get [is] the Heaven part, and Hell [is] when they don't come real."

"Lyrically I like to use themes that make the listener use his or her imagination, and to give a little of the lessons I've learned in my own life. The best subjects are always people, who never fail to amaze me by their unpredictability."

"I am not an Atheist or an anti-God person but my beliefs are that you do not have to go to a place to worship, you don't have to go to a house to do that and that God resides in you and me and so does the Devil and heaven and hell is where we live on this earth. If the God that everyone prays to is such a wonderful God he wouldn't have people suffering so horribly as they are."

"The dancer is the free spirit unfettered by chains and not confined by four walls. Noone seems to care much for those they can't control."

"But I think it's a hell of a book. I think Whoever put it together did quite an interesting job, but I think that it was ... I think that things were put in there to capture a group of people so they would follow a religion."

"All Wagner, Ring, whatever. [...] The whole Valkyrie thing was cool, 'cause it was so tied into metal. I like Wagner's strength, just the pureness of it. I like a couple of Mozart things, but mainly Wagner."

"You know, music was given to us to color our world, and some people like blue, some people like green, some people like the combination of both. It's just a matter of personal taste. I don't think that it matters what you do or what your main interest is. I think music especially should be enjoyed and liked in its entirety by everyone."

"We always seem to begin or end in Philadelphia, it's the best place to start and the best place to stop. You're fantastic. My favorite place. Thank you!"

"It correlates itself with the way almost all of the people in this country believed in Richard Nixon up until the time he decided he was going to take a leap off the tower and fell flat on his ass and became just a little lump of blood and putty. That was my way of saying that the common man will always rise above the leader who oppresses them."

"I'm not a very religious person. I have no concept of what a God is; it may be the man on the silver mountain. My image of the man on the silver mountain is a guy with flowing robes and lightning coming from his fingertips, kind of a mytholigal figure like Zeus. The song is more of a plea from the fallen and to the fallen that there is hope, I will make you holy again. Ask me and I will do something for you."

"Let me go! I've seen religion, But the light has left me blind. Take me back! I must have the Bible Black."

"Maybe if we cry together, Maybe if we cry as one, The tears that fall could kill the fire And keep everyone From Atom and Evil."

"Most dreams are made of glass, You throw just one stone, And then there goes your last window."

"There's perfect harmony In the rising and the falling of the sea. And as we sail along, I never fail to be astounded by The things we'll do for promises And a song."

"Whenever you dream, You're holding the key, It opens the door To let you be free."

"Don't look behind 'Cause a tear that never dries Can only make you blind."

"Each day you hear the sand as it moves and whispers, Come and sail on my golden sea, Maybe one day you'll be just like me, And that's free."

"Wally George: Why do you call it rape rock? El Duce: Well, because it's a man's rock. Wally George: Are you trying to tell me you little pervert that go along with and encourage rape? El Duce: Well, no. Only peaceful rape. That's when the girl's passed out."

"Wally George: How do you describe your music? El Duce: Well, it's rape rock."

"Interviewer: Tell me about some chicks you fucked on the road. El Duce: Well, we pick 'em up...and drop 'em off at Jack in the Box. Truck stops are the goods... you get an airhead at a truck stop and you say 'bitch, you gotta get down on the dick! Cunt!'"

"El Duce: You know I believe in peaceful rape. You know when the broad passes out... drugs... that's... I see the green light go on. It's time to make whoopy, baby, yeah!"

"Interviewer: Do you guys really live the lifestyle that you sing about in your songs? El Duce: Absolutely. All our songs are about reality. Like Sleep Bandits."

"Wally George: Tell me what is your band all about? I mean what is The Mentors all about? El Duce: Well, I'll tell you son. It's like this, boy. We're heterosexuals. We wanna create more heterosexual music for the rest of the world. We're tired of sissie groups like Mötley Crüe and all this sissy stuff. We want rape rock!"

"Some days you're the pigeon, some days you're the statue."

"Metal lives in a world of its own creation."

"We tread a fine line between taking ourselves seriously and being Spinal Tap."

"Fans want to see people who can play; they respect certain values like professionalism, and they don't want to be treated like shit. They pay good money and they look forward to seeing some good music being played by decent musicians, who really put their soul into it."

"(On performing in Costa Rica for the first time) It was like finding some weird tribe in the middle of the jungle and, you know, they all come out and go: "Fear of the Dark. Favorite Album." What?!?"

"The music’s brutal and some of the lyrics reflect that, but we’re not trying to make people aware of anything. All you have to do is watch the news if you want to be aware of all the violence in the world."

"It's art, just look at it as art. Yeah, it's disgusting, but that's never gonna happen. Go to the Vatican and look at some of the artwork there. Woah! That's real, representing something that could happen. Monsters are never gonna come ripping out of your body."

"Kiss the ass of metal, you fucking jerk-offs!"

"I guess a [crucial] part of our popularity is that you don’t go in there worrying about listening to me preach that Hillary’s right and Trump’s wrong, or Trump’s right and she’s wrong, because we don’t care about that. As far as our music goes, on stage, we’re just singing about what we sing about. Hopefully everybody’s having a good time, hopefully everybody gets to the show safe, leaves the show safe, and comes back for more. [...] If people can escape with us, then, yeah, you know? And I wouldn’t say don’t listen to bands who are political, like Napalm Death is; there’s definitely those bands, and that’s good. That’s what’s in his heart, and he should do that. If I would make a band that’s talking about politics, I would do a side band. That’s not going to be in Cannibal. This whole world should just start thinking, “Just because you stand a little this way, or stand a little that way, that doesn’t mean we can’t all come together and try to compromise.” Don’t let politics and religion divide you. I don’t want to be conspiracy-esque, but I’m going to say this and it’s going to be conspiracy-esque, but [division is] what I think some people want."

"I’ve never voted in my life. I’ve never registered to vote, and I’m not going to. You know what, I pay my taxes. I work my ass off and I give my money to things that I don’t agree with. [...] OK, then they would say, “You can change that by voting.” No, because I’m just one vote. What if I don’t agree with all they do? I’m legally bound to pay taxes, I have to do that, so I do. There’s my contribution to politics. Other than that, leave me and my family alone, we’re not hurting anybody. Just that simple. I don’t need to be in it. I have my views on things I’ve seen, and if ever I was that compelled by any candidate, maybe I would register to vote and vote. [...] I just want to go and play music and come home to my kids and my wife. I don’t want to sit here and be in the picket line because they’re being untreated fairly, then you got the other guys on the other side saying, ‘No they’re not.’ You’ve always got the conservative people there, you always have the left-wing people there, and people in the middle, just trying to walk down the street and they can’t, because there’s people blocking the way."

"I saw [the album cover for '] and was like, 'oh my -- damn. That has got to piss some people off.' [...] It's one to have people dying in your [albums], well you start messing with children, and people start getting pissed off."

"I’m the Corpsegrinder, bro! I ain’t scared of shit. What scares me is old age, ’cause there ain’t no escapin’ that. And you know what scares me? An empty bottle of beer and an empty bottle of whiskey. That’s scary. It’s the only thing I can say and still be tough."

"I’m not going to get on Instagram to bitch about politics. In this day and age you’re either with Trump or against Trump, you’re either with Hillary or against her, you can’t be in the middle, it’s ridiculous to me. I might like tacos but I don’t like pizza,; maybe I like pizza only with pepperoni but no other kind of pizza, but no, that’s not allowed. In politics it seems like it’s like that, and they’re all so negative anyway. In Cannibal Corpse, most people want to paint us as being negative anyway, and we’re not—we’re just five guys in a band who’re into horror movie stuff. We don’t sing about politics; we might all have our own views, we probably all have our own religious views as well, but we just don’t let that creep into this band. It’s not about that. it’s about horror movie stuff. You wanna talk about it on an individual basis, I’m not that well informed. I don’t think that far into that kind of stuff."

"We’re a death metal band. I got two daughters now, and we’ve got songs like “Fucked with a Knife” and “Stripped, Raped and Strangled.” It’s pretty heavy stuff, and I think a lot of people think we’re insensitive to stuff like that, especially in this day and age when you’re supposed to apologize for everything you do because of someone’s feelings. Look, we’re a death metal band; it’s horror-movie-type stuff. It’s fiction. It’s not real. We’re like Stephen King with music. Sometimes people point to some of the things I say, and sometimes I’m a little harsh with the things I say on stage, but I just hope they put it together that I would never condone anything like that. I have two daughters and I would protect them with my life."