What is the most overrated band in metal???
A lot of people ask me what it’s like 2 b an influential, tastemaking metal blogger. Of course, i am honored to b ‘one of the cool kids’ who basically determines what is and isn’t cool to listen to, but it also comes with many challenges. Probably the biggest thorn in my side as a professional tastemaker is when ppl cannot see how basic, entry-level and overrated many so-called “”amazing”” bands are. I take it as a personal attack on my integrity as a blogger!!
A few of the most offensive examples:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmwRGwFUg5E
DEFTONES
I have spent a lot of time pondering what makes this band any different from the rest of their late-90s nu-metal peers, and all I can think of is that they have a slightly different take on that stupid nu-metal thing where they go from rly loud 2 rly quiet and the singer whispers/mumbles a bunch of stuff. The other nu-metal bands are all like ‘dont mess with me im KRAZY and if u dont back off i might SNAP!!!!’ but DEFTONES are all like ‘here are a bunch cryptic words for u 2 ponder, look at what a tortured artistic genius i am.’ So yeah i guess they are “”thinking man’s nu-metal”” but idk they just kinda sound like POD to me, only without the catchy choruses.
FAITH NO MORE/MR BUNGLE/Anything related to Mike Patton
i remember when FAITH NO MORE came out and they had that one song where he was rapping while the fish flopped around in the video and i thought it was pretty cool. But i was 11 years old and I was also into Captain Planet and the Nintendo cereal, so that tells u a lot about the kind of person that FAITH NO MORE appeals to. AKA, the kind of ppl who are in their 30s and still into pro wrestling and eating cereal for dinner and fangirl over Mike Patton.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_z2O289Jemo
TOOL
i feel like TOOL is the perfect example of a classic dichotomy: the more ppl tell u that a band is “”amazing””, the more likely that the band is not actually amazing at all. 10 minute songs? lol yeah no. lol @ how ppl also think their fake-deep claymation videos are “”amazing””
EVERY TIME I DIE
I like 2 think of this band as ‘the trve version of HELLYEAH.’ Their fanbase is basically ppl who would wear the above t-shirt (fatasses with beards who are rly loud and think that they’re the life of teh party but in reality everybody just wants them 2 stfu). The kind of ppl who will blurt out internet memes irl and everyone else is just like ‘omg i want to hide under a rock i’m so ashamed of what u just did’.
REFUSED
‘omg this band changed hardcore 4evr’ – guy who doesn’t actually like hardcore but listens to ‘the shape of punk 2 come’ in his Volkswagen on the way 2 his job at some b-level social marketing agency.
ZAO
I saw this band many times back in the 90s, and the consensus at the time was that they were like
a 6.5/10 crappy version of STRONGARM, but any time u mention them online their fanbase will not shut up about how they ‘were soooooo ahead of their time’ and blah blah blah blah blah (u can be certain they will use the word “amazing” at least a half dozen times). I can only assume this is because most of their fans were sheltered youth group kids who never heard real metal/hardcore and therefore think ZAO is much better than they actually are.
BEHEMOTH
The way ppl talk about this band u would expect them to be like the second coming of christ in musical form, but in reality they are best described as ‘painfully competent’. Most of their songs are kind of slow and boring, like that local/regional band who have been together forever and are good players with nice gear, but they can’t write a song 2 save their lives and they open for EVERY touring band and are friends with the owner of the club so they play for like 50 minutes and ur like ‘fukkkkkkk kill me already.’ Basically, there is nothing WRONG with their generic music, there is just nothing RIGHT with it, so i am forced 2 conclude that their appeal is based largely on their gimmicky image (they look kind of like the pieces in a fantasy chess set or that old Commodore 64 game “Archon”).
I could go on 4ever about sooooooo many crappy bands, but enough about me. What do u think?? Why is there a nearly-perfect, negative correlation between how many ppl call a band ‘amazing’ and how ‘amazing’ the band actually is??? should mike patton fanbois be chemically castrated??????
