Defenders Of The Faith, le forum Metal

BigMusicGeek.com: In hindsight, to what do you attribute the group's seemingly unprecedented longevity? You have, after all, been doing this in one form or another for quite some time now.

Gary: "The only thing I can attribute it to is that I'm insane (laughs). I'm out of my fuckin' mind and I don't know better. We're bitter old men. That's why we're still here (laughs). Sometimes I'm surprised we're still here, ya know? We've stayed true to the core beliefs of the band. We've never sold out, ya know? We've managed to endure and survive a lot of musical trends that have come and gone. The kind of stuff we do and play has always managed to find a way to survive, ya know? We're kind of like the cockroach of the musical world. I still absolutely love doin' this, ya know? When I sit down to write a song or come up with some new riffs, I l love it and when I come up with a good one, I get really into it. It's just like when I was twenty years old, ya know? I'm just sittin' there absorbed it in and then I'm callin' everyone in the bad so I can tell 'em how heavy the new shit is, ya know? I still get fired up about it. But I don't take it for granted, ya know? I still want to do this. I think we still have a lot to offer."

BigMusicGeek.com: As a pioneering thrash metal musician, have you found yourself pleased with the group's place in the hierarchy of the genre's history?

Gary: "I'm perfectly content with our place in thrash metal history, ya know? We're arguably the band that started it all. Us and METALLICA, ya know? There's room for argument over who came first. It's kinda like the chicken and the egg argument, ya know? Every day I hear people give homage to us and give us the respect that we deserve, but at the same time, I carry around a huge perceived lack of respect. I still feel like we don't get any. But that's one of the things that fuels me and keeps me motivated, so maybe I create it myself sometimes. I don't know. There's only two bands like us that have had multi-platinum success. One is METALLICA, the biggest rock band in the world and the other is MEGADETH. SLAYER doesn't have any platinum albums, TESTAMENT doesn't have any and neither does ANTHRAX, ya know? [For the record, ANTHRAX's "I'm The Man" was certified platinum in 1993. — Ed.] We've certainly been on the outside looking in at times, but when I hear people throw words around like 'The Big Four'. We were fuckin' doin' this shit when everyone else was still doin' covers and wearin' striped shirts, ya know? Sometimes, stuff like that can rub me wrong, ya know? But out of all of the 'old guards,' who else is still making albums as vital as we are right now, ya know? I don't think anybody is."

Everflow a écrit : ↑

05 mai 2021, 19:23

En 97 avec Baloff, voix un peu défoncée mais c'est thrash.
Par rapport à aujourd'hui, le look de Gary Holt est collector.