Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine, drummer Dirk Verbeuren and Between the Buried and Me drummer Blake Richardson were featured in IGN’s recent video focused on the connection between metal music and video games.
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Mustaine said in the clip:
“They need each other and they just can’t help it. They’re just… It’s like they are drug addicts that are addicted to each other – metal and games.
“Metal music makes people salivate, it makes them happy. It gives them what they want. When they’re mad, they don’t go and put on a Beatles track. When they want to get in their car and drive fast, they don’t put on Pet Shop Boys.
“It’s metal that feeds that fire, that unquenchable thirst. And when you’re playing a video game, I think if you’re not capturing the moment musically with the intensity of the game, people are gonna drift off to sleep.
“You need something that’s gonna keep people enrapt and a really good riff will keep people excited.”
Dirk said:
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“I’d got a Commodore 64, my dad got me that early on, I think I was maybe six or seven years old. The way I got most of my games was like… pirated copies. I didn’t actually own any games.
“The Commodore 64 initially were like audio cassettes that you had to load the games from. But then later on floppy discs, you know… and I just knew some friends in school, some guys that somehow got ahold of a lot of stuff.
“So I didn’t actually, unfortunately, own many games. [Laughs] But I was hooked from the minute I had a computer… and I was probably spending way too much time playing. Which is interesting because later on, in my teenage years, when I started being more interested in music and then playing instruments, I’d go to my guitar first and then later when I was playing drums, to my drum kit, and then play video games to the end of the evening. [Laughs]
“So when you’re saying those things are connected, I have to definitely agree. [Laughs]