![]() There is not much room for moody tunes about love, loss and rejection. ![]() ![]() And that’s the problem.Ĭall me rigid-thinking, uncreative, curmudgeonly (seriously, you’d call me ‘curmudgeonly’? – who do you think you are?), but metal should only cover the following sacred subjects: wizards, elves, Vikings, Satan regrouping his forces, anti-establishment politics and re-telling stories about soldiers who have lost their arms and legs in WWI. They almost deliver a killer riff, and then they go the other direction, turning on the Catchy-Tune Machine. The only problem, is that this kind of metal, while fun to see live, is fairly toothless. Their newest release, A Death-Grip on Yesterday, debuted on Billboard at number 9, showing a definite shift in the musical tastes of American teenagers from Rap to Metal. They have this month’s cover of Revolver, a magazine, to be fair, that actually gives a broad view of the metal scene. ![]() For a metal band, Atreyu is wildly popular.
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