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" With 'Hail To The King' - our last album - we obviously wore our influences on our sleeve, and it was a blatant attempt to turn on our younger generation of fans to more classic-sounding metal. "

Zacky Vengeance

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" We're not a Screamo band. "

Zacky Vengeance

Band

" I've always loved big riffs and chunky guitars. "

" Everything an artist does is scary, but we do it anyway. If someone tries to steer you off-course, push them outta the way and get back on course. Never giving up - that's what I truly believe all the greatest bands have done. "

" To be honest, we never, ever let business weigh down the creativity of this band. "

" There's always going to be haters, but those people are few. We're not too worried about it. "

" We wanted to incorporate lights and the like to really accentuate the music. We play mostly small venues, so we don't use it overboard by any means. The most important thing is the music. I think we do a good job of letting that show. "

" When you start running out of things to do on a guitar, you have to find other ways of making music with your instrument. "

" It's always been a conscious thing for us to do whatever will separate us from the pack and make us happy musically. "

" I've had the chance to watch Metallica's James Hetfield from the side of the stage night after night, listening to his monitors, and his playing is so perfect. Slash is an amazing lead guitarist, but when you listen to his rhythm playing, you can hear how he pulls everything together with such a great feel, which is the most important thing. "

" We had to take full advantage of the fact that we wanted to be one of the most creative bands out there that's getting backed by one of the biggest companies. "

" You carry on knowing that there's something so much more important than yourself to deliver to millions of fans across the world, to all your friends, and to yourself. "

" Just by nature, we're always filled with so many ideas and want to cram as many ideas into a song as we can, and I think that gave us a lot of our signature sound. "

" Not everyone is going to love you. Not everyone is going to like what you do, and you see a lot of people don't want to let go of the bands that they love. They don't want to move forward. They don't want to let new things come in; they're scared of change. They're scared of new bands taking over their genre. They're just scared of change. "

" We really wanted to create an album that had no boundary or limit to it. There's nothing to say that we couldn't release a song that belongs on 'The Stage' 20 years into our career. We want it to be an album that constantly grows with what we want to do, and that's what we did. "

" We go out there every night, and we fight the battle. We don't care about people who don't think we're true metal. We hope to change their minds. I have total faith. "

" Mike Elizondo had an incredible array of guitars in the studio, but they were all right-handed. "

" That is one thing about playing with Guns N' Roses and Metallica: everyone wants to interview you. "

" When we were trying to come up with a concept for our music video for 'The Stage' we basically run through a lot of different ideas, and ultimately, I sat and studied the lyrics that Matt had written - and they really resonated with me. "

" I love listening to Led Zeppelin and classic rock albums from the Seventies. They're just so brilliant because they breathe. "

" Only a world spinning out of control could inspire the music and vision we have now. "

" Basically, we're just a bunch of kids who got together and try to use what we have and try to learn from each other. "

" For us to dial back a little bit and have a little more straightforward, singalong appeal was a challenge. In order to do that, we had to throw away a lot of stuff. "

Zacky Vengeance

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" I remember what it felt like when I was young, and I looked up to someone, and they would pay me just an ounce of attention. And some of the bands I listened to when I was young probably never even sold any albums, but it didn't matter to me. If I'd go up and say, 'Great show,' it would be amazing that they even would acknowledge me. "

Zacky Vengeance

Amazing

Attention

" There's people that have never heard our album. The most they've seen is either our video on 'TRL' or our picture on the cover of magazines. "

" We wanna be on the frontlines of everything new and exciting. The old world order of putting out four singles before you release an album is so boring to us. "

" That's what bands like Pink Floyd and bands like Rush and even the Metallica of this world have, which is long, ambitious songs that pull in all different directions. "

" We're very historically tried and true when it comes to our albums. We pick the best songs; we get rid of the songs we feel don't fit on the album, and we don't work on remixing or remastering albums. "

" I think everyone's trying to come up together and bring up other bands along the way, and we've always been really blessed to have bands like Metallica and Iron Maiden take us under their wing and say nice things about us. "

" Everyone loves to complain that there are no real bands on MTV, yet no one wants to step up to the plate and try to change that. "

" We wanted to write the kind of songs that can really cross any language barriers, any borders, and resonate with fans around the world. "