Mat McNerney Quotes

I don't think there's anything remotely "new" or "experimental" about any modern metal bands.

There are many ways to portray darkness and evil and it isn't all in being mean and tough.

In the past stories have been what tethers us to the world and they've made us who we are.

I have a lot of mental scars from being brought up Catholic and being sent to Catholic school for 13 years!

You never leave a band like DHG. There's very few who are insane enough to be a part of something like that and you just can't take it out of you that easily!

I don't like bands who would play music like Code. I mean I hate most bands with emotional singing parts (I adore metal singing like Iron Maiden though!)

I loathe most crossover music. Yet I like to think when it comes to Code it's something different.

Everyone's attention span these days is limited to how long it takes to flick the iPod wheel on to the next song.

Basically every song on modern metal albums follows a formula and you get that formula in between one to three tracks.

I don't want people to feel like they'd overdosed on too much candy.

I think there's a certain limit to the number of times you can raise hairs on the back of peoples' heads before it gets kind of saccharin.

I think Nouveau Gloaming is a classic black metal record and I would hate to be a band that kept trying to recapture the same essence, but failing, for the rest of its days.

I don't bring any ideology or barriers with me into my music.

I don't think it's "true" to sit and play old school heavy metal just so that you can send it to Fenriz or get a pat on the back from the guys you admire and hang out with.

People are appreciating the old stuff again and there's no MTV-style scene police to try to make us all listen to Machine Head and Pantera *puke*!

I think when you have a band that are so separate and isolated then you have to know each others styles and characters quite well.

Bands are more willing to take risks and we don't need this big label over us anymore telling us what it means to sell records and get into magazines.

I do try to pay attention to new bands and what's happening within the scene. I try to make sure I give everything a listen - even if I loathe it.

Ultimately I want my metal in a bar and not an art gallery.

When you're trying to free yourself from a religion that has been ingrained in you since childhood, it's more like ripping out your veins and tendons.