Sam Dunn: Self
Quotes
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Sam Dunn : This music has millions of passionate fans worldwide, yet for 35 years, it's been consistently stereotyped, dismissed and condemned.
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Blasphemer : Can you repeat the question?
Sam Dunn : A lot of people we've talked to have said that...
Blasphemer : [Cuts Sam off] What?
Sam Dunn : ...have said that black metal is starting to lose touch with its roots...
Necrobutcher (Mayhem) : [Cuts Sam off] Who are they? Which ones? Who the fuck are you talking to? FUCK THEM! Ya know...
Sam Dunn : ...Do you have a comment on that?
Necrobutcher (Mayhem) : Yeah, I have a comment... FUCK YOU!... Ya know?
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Sam Dunn : Metal confronts what we'd rather ignore. It celebrates what we often deny. It indulges in what we fear most. And that's why metal will always be a culture of outsiders.
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[On the subject of who is the first heavy metal band]
Geddy Lee : If you really wanna go back to the early metal bands, you have to look at Blue Cheer. Nobody talks about them very often because they were kind of a bloop on a screen. But they were, at one point, the loudest most metallic trio going.
John Kay : Heavy metal lies of course in the lyrics of 'Born to be Wild', which was written by a Canadian; Dennis Edmonton / Mars Bonfire. He was really talking about that whole experience of, you know, big bikes and roaring down the highway.
Robert Ezrin : For me, my awareness of it came with Led Zeppelin, it really did. As soon as those guys launched people started using the term 'heavy metal'. And I knew instantly that that sound was 'heavy something'.
Lemmy : As it is today, probably Deep Purple. You know, 'cause they were the first to have this great big fuck-off PA... And, uhm... the first to have a lot of pyrotechnics really.
Alice Cooper : Actually, the first time 'heavy metal' was ever used was used about Alice Cooper in Rolling Stone magazine. Rolling Stone magazine was doing an interview with us. I think it was in '71, '72, '73, something like that. And there was this picture of this giant guy holding me up and it said; "Da-da-da-da-da-da... It's heavy metal", in quotes.
Alex Webster : Every metal band owes a debt, musically, to Black Sabbath. They were the original.
Randy Blythe : Indeed, first metal band ever; Black Sabbath.
Rob Zombie : Every cool riff has already been written by Black Sabbath. Anything everyone else does is just basically ripping it off. Either you're playing it slightly different or fast or slow, but... They did everything already.
Sam Dunn : For my money, Black Sabbath reigns as the first heavy metal band.
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Sam Dunn : I mean, whether we like it or not, black metal in Norway is known for, uh, a string of events that happened in the early 1990's, around a series of arsons. I'd just want to know your thoughts on the action of those events, the motivations behind those events - whther you'd agree with them or whether you'd disagree?
Gaahl : Church burnings and all these things are, of course, a thing that I support a hundred percent. And it should've been done much more and will be done much more in the future. We have to remove every trace from what christianity and uh... the semitic roots have to offer this world. Satanism is freedom for the individual to grow and become the superman. Every man who's born to be king becomes king. Every man who's born to be a slave doesn't know Satan.
