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COOS BAY, Ore. β Members of Shivtank made it perfectly clear that they were absolutely not cool being associated with the nu metal genre despite sounding exactly like it, confirmed sources.
βI think itβs easy to hear our down-tuned Ibanez guitars, our MCβs lyrics, and the fact that half of our band consists of former members of Coal Chamber, and pigeonhole us into quote, unquote, βnu metal,ββ began bassist Mo Jacobsen. βBut you have to remember, a lot of what our rhyming vocalist does is called βscatting,β which is strongly influenced by and finds its roots in jazz. You can hear many examples of this in our new one, βBlood Blister,β which weβre gonna play tonight to all seven people that are here.β
Music blogger and lifelong listener Blake Soderstrom expressed his concern that his past judgements about the band were misconstrued.
βWhen I wrote that Shiv sounded like a perfect mesh of Korn, meets Papa Roach, meets early Linkin Park, meets SA Martinez if he were a crying baby, meets a 13-year-old boy going through puberty, to me that means an entirely new kind of metal. A new metal, if you will,β stressed Soderstrom. βIt doesnβt necessarily mean nu metal, but yeah, theyβre nu metal. I even catch them wearing JNCOs and chain wallets from time to time. Letβs be real, no one is mistaking you for being in an indie folk band with that kind of fashion.β
Music historian Art Kimmel noted how surprisingly common this phenomenon was.
βItβs easy to look at these guys in full Adidas track suits, while their drummer sports a Chewbacca mask onstage and label them as βdelusional,ββ stated Kimmel. βBut the truth is, this happens all the time. The worst case Iβve seen of Genre Derangement Syndrome, or GDS, was an emo band named The American Anthemists. Their lead singer hit higher notes than Brendon Urie and their monster popular hit was titled, βIβm Actually Glad You Pissed The Carny Off And Weβre Stuck on This Perpetual Ferris Wheel Because Iβve Never Seen Your Hair Blow From This Height.β And these guys were convinced they werenβt emo. We finally talked them down but it took a whole lot of depression meds and letting them write an entire album about the experience.β
At press time, the band tried to prove one last time that they werenβt nu metal by releasing a heavier cover version of George Michaelβs βFaith.β
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βI think itβs easy to hear our down-tuned Ibanez guitars, our MCβs lyrics, and the fact that half of our band consists of former members of Coal Chamber, and pigeonhole us into quote, unquote, βnu metal,ββ began bassist Mo Jacobsen. βBut you have to remember, a lot of what our rhyming vocalist does is called βscatting,β which is strongly influenced by and finds its roots in jazz. You can hear many examples of this in our new one, βBlood Blister,β which weβre gonna play tonight to all seven people that are here.β
Music blogger and lifelong listener Blake Soderstrom expressed his concern that his past judgements about the band were misconstrued.
βWhen I wrote that Shiv sounded like a perfect mesh of Korn, meets Papa Roach, meets early Linkin Park, meets SA Martinez if he were a crying baby, meets a 13-year-old boy going through puberty, to me that means an entirely new kind of metal. A new metal, if you will,β stressed Soderstrom. βIt doesnβt necessarily mean nu metal, but yeah, theyβre nu metal. I even catch them wearing JNCOs and chain wallets from time to time. Letβs be real, no one is mistaking you for being in an indie folk band with that kind of fashion.β
Music historian Art Kimmel noted how surprisingly common this phenomenon was.
βItβs easy to look at these guys in full Adidas track suits, while their drummer sports a Chewbacca mask onstage and label them as βdelusional,ββ stated Kimmel. βBut the truth is, this happens all the time. The worst case Iβve seen of Genre Derangement Syndrome, or GDS, was an emo band named The American Anthemists. Their lead singer hit higher notes than Brendon Urie and their monster popular hit was titled, βIβm Actually Glad You Pissed The Carny Off And Weβre Stuck on This Perpetual Ferris Wheel Because Iβve Never Seen Your Hair Blow From This Height.β And these guys were convinced they werenβt emo. We finally talked them down but it took a whole lot of depression meds and letting them write an entire album about the experience.β
At press time, the band tried to prove one last time that they werenβt nu metal by releasing a heavier cover version of George Michaelβs βFaith.β
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