![]() After all, their songs are known for the brutal sonic assault of the twin seven stringed Ibys. I’m sure it gave the band their fare share of them too. Then they announced Unplugged and everyone just got confused.Īdmittedly, it gave me a headache when I tried to think of how they would pull off stripped down versions of their songs. See You… also saw them experimenting with sonic dynamics, softening up to give more haunting melodies to perpetuate their “dark” sound and it worked. While still trying to keep the whole angry thing going, it’s very apparent that they are, in a way, maturing with their musical styling sounding more restrained with each album. Several chart topping albums and a roller coaster career ride later, the band starts to look like it’s, well… growing up. Nu-metal was born and thus far it has survived. ![]() But as it so often happens in life (being stranger than fiction and all), it happened. ![]() Fathers of Nu-metal stand! Who would have guessed back in 1994 that a band with a whiny croaker as their vocalist, two sludgy down-tuned seven string guitar wielding axe-men, a bassist who slaps away his five string like there is no tomorrow and a drummer going back to the use of acoustic drums after the electronic drum frenzy of the 80s and early 90s would have helped break a perennially boot-legged form of music still reeling from the death of glam and the waning of thrash and heavy sonic assaults into the mainstream? I don’t think many saw that coming. ![]()
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