Patrick Rösing:„Metal ist die Austreibung des Blues aus dem Rock“. Interview mit Dietmar Elflein von Patrick Rösing. In: Festival Today. Band2011, Nr.1. Schleswig-Holsteinischer Zeitungsverlag, Flensburg 4.August 2011, S.20 (archive.org[PDF; abgerufen am 15.Dezember 2022]).
„All Aeolian and classical influence in Hard Rock and Metal can be traced back to Ritchie Blackmore (and to some extent Uli Roth).“ HeadDino: Wolf Hoffmann. (Memento vom 12. April 2011 im Internet Archive)Dinosaur Rock Guitar; abgerufen am 22. April 2011
„What metal bands did do was draw material from classical music, like Manowar’s ‘Flight of the Bumblebee’ and ‘William Tell’, Ritchie Blackmore/Rainbow’s excerptions from Beethoven’s Ninth, and Accept’s ‘Metal Heart / Für Elise’, but as Weinstein asserts, these were not acknowledgements of metal’s musical past. Rather they were used as proclamations of virtuosity (Weinstein 1998, 143, also Walser 1993, chapter 3). Interestingly, the compositional authenticity of folk metal has not yet been criticized, though many bands use similar techniques to those of Led Zeppelin, only drawing from older sources. Otyg’s Daniel Fredriksson has suggested to me that this is because folk tunes are seen as “the definition of authenticity.” He adds that “someone who plays a folk tune isn’t seen as ripping off someone else, he or she is granted being a part of a chain of tradition, of the ‘soul of nature’” (Fredriksson, pc).“ Aaron Patrick Mulvany: “Reawakening Pride Once Lost”: Indigeneity And European Folk Metal. Masterarbeit. Wesleyan University, Middletown CT 2000, S. 50
