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"The punk rock scene started to get a little stodgy, and a little bit demanding in terms of like laying down the parameters of what was ok to do. And that was not punk rock to us. I got off on doing whatever the fuck I wanna do, period."

"...And echoing Tylor we can say that religion is a field of making knowledge. Both as a scholar in religious studies and anthropology I am very open and respectful towards pre- and non-academic modes of knowledge production. This humbleness and recognition of multiple epistemologies is close to my heart, and I find this much more compelling than pursuing an ontological line that focuses on different ways of being. I’m deeply interested in how people seek to know the world, all they do to gain knowledge, how they develop it and defend it, become sceptical, and think twice and again. And as I am not a positivist, I acknowledge that we never know the world “as such”, but always through signs, and narratives that get tied into each other, and that we try to understand and translate."

"The EP, short for extended play, is more than a single but less than an album. The format really came into its own in the late-’70s/early-’80s with punk, post-punk and independent labels, offering an affordable sampler for new and exciting music."

"Meat Puppets were never your average punk band. [...] By the time they made Meat Puppets II, they really didn’t care about remaining within anyone else’s definition of punk rock. On [that album], they embraced their love of bluegrass, jazz, psychedelia, the Grateful Dead, Frank Zappa, and really whatever else piqued their interest. The result is an album that’s punk as fuck, regardless of how little it sounds like the Ramones."

"My parents were academics and not thrilled about me joining a thrash metal band. They were older than most of my friends’ parents so didn’t even have that rock’n’roll background. Their wishes for me were to get a PhD, just like them. There were a few points that convinced them I hadn’t made a terrible choice, though. The first was when Testament supported Judas Priest at the Oakland Coliseum [in 1990], which showed that this was more than just a neighbourhood band. They were also happy when I started writing columns for guitar magazines, because they always respected writing."

"The line between doom and death metal can seem to some as simply a matter of tempo. But what needs remembering is the intent. As titles go, Rotting Misery from Paradise Lost’s Lost Paradise debut set out the distinction clearly. It also defined a new subgenre: doom-death."

"Having been signed to labels with names like United Guttural and Corpse Gristle, it should come as no surprise that Lone Star State death metallers Devourment traffic in the same nihilistic sonic filth as their slam death metal forebears Cannibal Corpse and Suffocation. Despite splitting up and re-forming multiple times since emerging in the mid-'90s, the band has remained at the forefront of the brutal death scene, issuing genre-defining albums like Molesting the Decapitated, Unleash the Carnivore, and Obscene Majesty."

"From the "scary music" idea Sabbath had in 1970, through to bands who took that idea and really ran with it, to funereal dirges and explorations of doom where it feels like you're on a different planet to Sabbath altogether, doom is a genre as wide as it is long. Often a truly underground thing full of lost relics and hidden gems, the influence of doom metal stretches far further than its small success stories suggest."

"As Cities Burn brought an experimental, artsy approach to post-hardcore."

"Chiodos were hugely integral to post-hardcore in the 2000s."

"Many jazz fans simply refer to [hard bop] as the Blue Note sound in deference to the record label most closely associated with the glory days of hard bop in the 1950s and 1960s. As the name hard bop indicates, the leading performers of this new idiom learned from their bebop predecessors. But they also borrowed techniques from other styles of populist music. The resulting hybrid artfully mixed the sophistication of modern jazz with a rough-and-tumble swagger, brash and bluesy, that never let you forget this music's proletarian pedigree."

"AFI have done a lot for the post-hardcore scene as a whole, but cracking into the mainstream with “Miss Murder” is a massive achievement. The song had all of the makings of a radio hit, with a massive chorus, driving bassline and simplistic nature to capture the attention of people in and out of the know on bands playing this style of music."

"The calming, atmospheric vibe at the beginning of mewithoutYou’s “In A Sweater Poorly Knit” is there to suck listeners in before the band start to build layer after layer of sounds, showing their capabilities in bringing out punk energy without ever tapping into harsh noise."

"The EF-5 rating was mainly arrived at by the total destruction of vehicles of various sizes and weight. Some vehicles were tossed several blocks, and owners were never able to locate their vehicles. Also, parking stops weighing over 300 pounds and re-barred into asphalt were tossed from 20 to 60 yards. Other factors included was the deflection, deformed and tossing of reinforced concrete porches and slabs, and the fact the St. John’s hospital building structure and foundation were compromised and will need to be torn down, were probably caused by winds speed at or exceeding 200 mph."

"I have heard Slayer's first and a few from bands such as Sodom, Destruction, Wimphammer / Celtic Compost, and I think they all suck. I don't even listen to black metal, death metal, satanic metal, or thrash metal at all. It's mostly crap."

"Rob Halford's operatic voice is one of the most recognizable in all of heavy metal and hard rock."

"Our purpose is to spread fear and evil."

"Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi is without question the greatest metal guitarist of all time. There would simply be no metal without Iommi’s monumental riffs, beastly tone, and more importantly his revolutionary approach to the guitar. [...] Iommi’s sonic brilliance speaks for itself, and the fact the vast majority of the metal scene has remained unwavering in their admiration for him not only cements him as the godfather of metal, but it further establishes him as the greatest heavy metal guitarist of all time."

"Singing was really hard on his voice. [...] He just wanted to try something with a more traditional metal singer, because he was a huge fan of bands like Iron Maiden, Manowar and bands like that. I don’t think he ever wanted to stop doing Death full time, because he knew how much that band meant to people. But he was ready for a break."

"We are deeply saddened and shocked at the passing of our dear friend and colleague Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare. Brian was a highly respected colleague and friend to all who worked with him. We are working closely with the New York Police Department and ask for your patience and understanding during this difficult time. Our hearts go out to Brian’s family and all who were close to him."

"We Slavs consider ourselves to be new arrivals, but that is untrue. Indo-Europeans and Indo-Iranians had been living here [in the southern Urals] since the Stone Age and had been incorporated into the Kazakhs, Bashkirs, and Slavs; such is the common thread linking us all."

"Recently, some Ukrainian archaeologists have taken Sylenko's theory of the Ukraine quite seriously as the most ancient and the most important centre of human civilisation and are making attempts to confirm that."

"In the 1970s and early 1980s, the state recommended that Soviet archaeologists avoided any display of Chinese artefacts found from the Golden Horde sites and played down the close links between the peoples of the Russian Far East and China."

"It is worth noting that 'the Aryan studies' are reviving once again under this umbrella, and once again, like in Germany early this century, they are closely related to occultism."

"The dissolution of the Soviet empire has given rise to a heightened nationalism which, in turn, projects a mythical and majestic Slavic past."

"Reliance upon migrations as the principal agent of social change has been typical of Russian archaeological interpretations, along with a blurring of the distinction between ethnic, linguistic, racial, and cultural entities, the isolation of racial/ethnic groups by the craniometric methods of physical anthropology, and the use of linguistic paleontology to reconstruct the development of cultural groups."

"[Shnirelman writes that nationalist concerns in the former U.S.S.R. are creating] an explicitly ethnocentric vision of the past, a glorification of the great ancestors of the given people, who are treated as if they had made the most valuable contribution to the culture of all humanity."

"Half the reason that we asked Chris to leave was because a lot of the stuff he’d come up with.. If we’d left it on, the album would not have sounded as good. That’s our firm opinion, and we wouldn’t have kicked him out if we hadn’t thought that the album would have sounded as good. So when it came time, we thought ‘well we have to make sure these lyrics are killer’. Not just a killer read, so much as they just sound good with the music [...] I think a lot of the problem was that Chris didn’t practise with the band too much, that he didn’t really pay attention to the riffs, and he would just write stuff that went over the top of it instead of actually working with it. And now that the band is helping write the lyrics, I think that you can hear that they mesh better."

"The baby is coming in 3 weeks. I feel anxious. These last 3 weeks are my last weeks responsible for myself. So I’m trying my best to take care of my child like myself and enjoy my freedom I guess for the last 3 weeks. This is going to be nothing in comparison to having a child."

"So, this is my belly. I am 20 weeks. And I have the MTV awards coming up. And as you can see, little plum plum is ready for the world to know that he or she is here. I think I’m gonna have to just throw in the towel and if you can see that I’m pregnant, I just have to own it. So I maybe… Well, my baby maybe debuting itself on the awards. I’m going to be a mommy."

"Math Rock is a relation to post-rock, a better known indie-rock style that shares similar aesthetics. Where post-rock has distinct jazz influences, math rock is the opposite side of the same coin -- it's dense and complex, filled with difficult time signatures and intertwining phrases. Also, the style is a little more rockist than post-rock, since it's usually played by small, guitar-led bands. Math rock peaked in the mid-'90s, when groups like Polvo and Chavez had small, dedicated followings among indie rockers on collegiate campuses."

"Mathcore [is] the sound of metal being twisted into startling new shapes."

"I first got into extreme metal through trading tapes and reading fanzines. When I was fourteen, I went with one of my neighbours, Shamaatae, to sit in on a rehearsal with his new band. That band was Grotesque and seeing them rehearse was incredibly cool. The intensity and speed of the music being played at maximum volume impressed me like very little had up until that point. My favourite song quickly became 'Blood Runs From The Altar', from their second demo The Black Gate Is Closed. I was already a huge J.R.R. Tolkien fan, so this was just perfection to me."

"Not many people will argue against the case that Emperor are the greatest black metal band of all time, or that they raised the genre into new realms of art. In The Nightside Eclipse amplified black metal’s invocation of otherness as it imprinted the inhuman on an immeasurably vast and majestic canvas. [...] Emperor tore open new spaces that drew in innumerable voyagers in their wake."

"My disappoint is immeasurable, and my day is ruined."

"[Lambesis] cried on the show and stuff and really sold it, so people were like, ‘Fuck Jasta! He’s so insensitive! I can’t believe this!’ [...] I was one of the only people that publicly went against [Lambesis] and said it on multiple shows. Not a lot of people… I think I’m still, you could probably Google this, I’m still one of the only people that said, ‘No fuck this dude! It’s wack. He’s done. This is someone that should really be canceled’. And I swear, in one day I had maybe like 400 tweets where it was like, ‘Fuck you, Jasta, you never wanted to kill your wife?!?’… I was like, ‘No, I mean…’"

"[Mullen] has an unrepentant, one-dimensional approach to his vocal attack, never once veering from his trench-digging gutturals. He was among the first to implement the ultra-low style, aided by blocking off some of the mic ports in the early days to help muffle and muddy his sound."

"Vegetarianism is a most simple thing, and I suppose it is because of its great simplicity that there exist so many misunderstandings about it. It is not an ideal in food and drink; it is an actuality which has proved widely beneficial; it is a reality, something which can be practiced—not something which can only be looked at with desire from a distance; but vegetarianism is a system or diet which leaves its adherents absolutely free, with one exception, to choose from all the entire range of food products which the world offers. The exception is that section of foods which are obtainable only by loss of life."

"Your pride, why should your pride be so restricted? Restricted to a mere fraction of this earth. This earth from which we have all evolved"

"There’s a stupid rumor. The most ridiculous rumor I think I’ve ever had about me. It’s crazy. To think I would be that vain – I respect mothers and women so much and to be able to experience bringing a child into this world, if you’re lucky and fortunate enough to experience that, I would never, ever take that for granted. It’s the most powerful thing you can do. Especially after losing a child, the pain and trauma from that just makes it mean so much more to get an opportunity to bring life into the world. It seems like people should have boundaries."

"Үнэнийг хайсан, хайрыг хайсан, өөрийгөө хайсан эрэл хайгуулууд маань магад шүлэг бичдэг болгосон. Энэ эрэл хайгуулын мөнхийн чиглэл эрх чөлөө, чөлөөлөлт юм шиг санагдах болов. Уудам тэнгэрт хаашаа ч яаралгүй, хэлбэргүй нүүх үүлс шиг бүхий л зүйл хүлээснээсээ чөлөөлөгдөх болтугай."

"Like Atheist, Cynic used death metal’s framework as a mere springboard to devise a wholly original, genre-straddling new sound, as alien as the creature gracing their sole full-length of the 1990’s now legendary ‘Focus.’ Vocalist/guitarist Paul Masvidal and drummer Sean Reinert had already showcased their skills on Death’s 1991 triumph ‘Human,’ and yet not even that prepared the metal world for this startling mutation, built on unorthodox riff/drum combinations, jazz-like improvisations, and vocal styles that ranged from a death growls, to female and robotic vocals, all intoning esoteric lyrics. Without any hyperbole, the end results were so brilliant that it simply couldn’t last, and Cynic soon disappeared for over a decade."

"Translation: My search for truth, for love, for myself, has perhaps led me to write poetry. The eternal direction of this search seems to be freedom and liberation. May I be free from all bondage, like clouds in the sky, moving aimlessly and formlessly."

"You're so horrible, really horrible!"

"You're so mean, you're so mean, you're so mean! (US)"

"You're horrid, you're horrid, you're horrid! (UK)"

"Grindcore is the bridge between thrash and death metal mixed with brutally fast hardcore. You take it and throw it all in a blender, hit puree and stand back."

"This was something I'd been working on at home, which the band saw partially finished. It consequently became my first Death Metal cover. Prior to that I'd been making album covers for British thrash bands like Warfare, and Hydravein. Even though I was 18 when I did it, I still think it's quite interesting. It's not supposed to be spherical as has been suggested. It's more like a flat disk made of a fossil material, that has captured souls."

""Hacksaw Decapitation," ' (1999) as quoted by Jon Wiederhorn of"

"It all matters, what you read, what you watch and listen to. Take care of your health. Nothing in life is handed to you, embrace hard work. In everything you do, look out for balance; not perfection."