Mattowarrior's Metal Madness

It's hard to stand out in an some would say, over-saturated market in music, especially within rock and metal nowadays. Bands need an edge to push them over the top as far as originality. One such band to emerge that comes close is IDEK (I don't even know?)  a self professed "Experimental" metal band, hailing from the Netherlands. The band says they are mainly influenced by Dillinger Escape Plan, Mastodon, and Katy Perry (!).  On their 2017 Self-Titled EP, they straddle the line between the Djent and Deathcore bands of today, but with plenty of things that stand out. One thing is that some of  the clean vocal parts recall vintage Mike Patton at times, something I find refreshing in a a glut of pop punk and emo sounding vocals that populate and can smear otherwise musically invigorating subgenres like the aforementioned Djent (just look at the ruckus over the clean vocal parts on any thread discussing Periphery, for example). Like the aforementioned bands...

As a long time fan, I posed the question- Is Danzig's career in decline? Is anything moving foward going to have the quality of performance, music, and production that was so evident in the past? Watch this controversial video to find out!

In the next week or so (depending) you can expect a fully articulated video (probably using some new software I'm a bit shaky at) that is a defense video of one of the most contentious bands of the past 50 years, Kiss. In it I will argue for their importance in influencing (countless) Hard Rock and Heavy Metal bands over time, as well as dispelling the notion that they are a "gimmick band". Look for it on here SOON!

I know some will think my picks stretch the term "black metal" as far as being more in the Viking or "Progressive" Black metal vein but I don't care. I even threw in a few "Runners up" for good measure. It was hard to do this list because even at this point in my life I'm (re)discovering bands I may had missed back when I first got into this style of metal.

Many bands jumped onto the bandwagon of being Grunge or Alternative influenced in the early Nineties. Here's my take of some famous (and infamous) examples of Metal bands following this trend, on my analysis of some of the albums released during this period.

Doing a video review of my top five "second wave" Norwegian Black Metal albums of All Time! Watch for it on here!