'Brother will fight brother,
spilling blood across the land,
killing for religion - something I don't understand'
Holy Wars... Punishment Due - Megadeth
Since Dave Mustaine wrote the classic opener from Rust In Peace he has alleged it is about Israel, Northern Ireland, but lets face it with the Ginger Whinger it is probably about being kicked out of Metallica 800 years ago and how his life has been utterly consumed by this failure, no matter that he has gotten married, had kids, sold a couple of records and spent a large part of that time touring the world, off his screwed up little face and not working the daily grind like the rest of us.
Now that line got me thinking the other night and I realise I have started off with 'there is a cliche' before, but the best thing about that statement is it's true and it's a little bit of history repeating'. And anyway, it's my fucking blog - don't like it? Get yourself a Kindle or something.
My favourite failed glam rockers - pregrunge, grungy drug dustbins and kings of stoopid Love/Hate once wrote 'It's okay to be a cliche - everything under the sun has been done'.
Well sure that was their excuse, but having tried to be a better Motley, a darker GnR and a frankly bizarre post nineties mess for several albums they would know exactly how many wagons have rolled pasted since the mid eighties as they have tried to hitch a ride on most.
However the one (cliche) that cracks me up is the notion of metal fans as a united tribe.
Sure we're all against the mainstream, but honestly there is jock metal that hates fag metal; Goths are rivalled, baggy assed trouser wearing, stupid fringe sporting types, emos, nu metallers, grungers, moshers, glam rockers, thrash, death, black metal, stoner types, fucking proggers; Christ - every one a cliche and a target of scorn for someone… I know it deep down because we all have ideas what music should be and the worst corruption is the one that makes us feel uneasy about our own selves…
I'd like to be open minded, I mean I listen to Hip Hop quiet avidly, I listen to dance music and have been told I'm at the wrong festival by passers by at Donington for the tunes on my stereo, but deep down nothing offends me more than a metal band I deem shit… I would rather listent to Britney Spears gagging on Akon's cock (presuming he's straight or even has gentials) than listen to some of the crap out there that is pedalled as metal these days so I know how divided this 'tribe' rely is.
Take for example one of my favourite new bands Emmure, they divide people like marmite and to be fair I love them for this.
To recap, they aren't really new. They have been knocking around in one form or another since about 2003. They belong in the sub basement genre of what could only be described as Deathcore.
What is deathcore? You say.
Fuck knows. I don't even care at this point.
I read an article on them regarding their latest album 'Speaker Of The Dead' which was released last year. They come from the mean streets and are heavily hip hop influenced which appealed to me because it put so many people off them. They specialise in death metal heavy music with huge and simplistic hardcore breakdowns and violent lyrics.
In all honesty they are a bit shit when anylised from a musical point of view - a beatdown is not a valid musical passage when simply placed on it's own, yet alone when you try and create a whole song from one, or six strung together. In reality they make the jock swagger of Limp Bizkit seem like Tool at times but they are incredibly cathartic when you are in a super pissed off mood - songs like Dogs Get Put Down and 4 Poisons 3 Words channel a senseless rage that make it the perfect music to vent the rat race frustration.
It's not for everyone, like Dream Theatre aren't right for me, like Slipknot aren't right for me, like BFMV, like some of the fringy, tight jeaned shit makes me want to punch the Hot Topic crowd in their stupid faces and bust open lips with piercings… but the amount of hate they attract on the internet is quite frankly hilarious.
None more cool sites like Metal Sucks or Blabbermouth hate on these guys so much I HAD to like them due to the moronic and inaneness of the people who post on there... if Emmure were really that terrible(which on some level they are and they aren't) I'd still love them because the 'in crowd' has such a problem with them.
They have their place in the order of things, they serve their purpose and if I'm feeling mad at the world I will drive home screaming, 'I don't want you, I don't need you - I have no reason to please or appease you and if you're not with me in this fight, then I'm walking away tonight'.
The thing is it made me realise is that much like those that used to be friends make the worst enemies; the music that (in the ear of the beholder) screws with what you love is truly the thing that gives you the most problem.
That and all the trappings that go with it.
Much like there will never be peace in Africa, The Middle East, Northern Ireland… brother will fight brother and the notion of a united tribe is fantastic pipe dream that just won't happen.
You grebeo douchebags.
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