Chris Broderick: live metal interview

Greg: You’re a very schooled musician. You’ve got a music degree. So how did you end up in metal from that background?

The funny thing is, there are aspects of each type of music that draw me to it. For classical, it was its compositional excellence and its beauty and its elegance and stuff like that. With metal, it was just totally almost like the opposite of that, in a way, where whatever goes, whatever happens. I love jazz because of its harmonic density and flamenco because it’s like classical but with fire behind it. I have all these little labels for reasons why I like different styles of music, but it’s funny because within each genre I’m very picky about the artist. What it comes down to me in the end is that you always have to have an artist that is competent at what they do for me to like it. If I hear something that sounds like they’re doing it just because it’s what they’re technically allowed, then I generally won’t like it.
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