Well…except for bands like Atreyu, that is. They tackle the more thoroughly trodden ground of the suburban teenager to be exact, that one at the mall who works in the record store, with the long, dyed-black floppy hair, laughing at everyone who buys all that Top 40 crap. They are Warrant for kids too young to remember Warrant.Ītreyu does not cover any accepted metal topics, unfortunately. Despite the marketing machine behind bands like Hawthorne Heights, despite getting them in metal mags and on tours with other, actual, real-live metal bands, they are still Poison with modern equipment. All I know is, romantic loss and hum-able tunes usually crash and burn in the world of metal. See what I mean? It’s hard to exactly say.
That’s why we have Boy Bands.Īdmittedly, metal is a strange beast, given to being completely ridiculous on the level of Professional Wrestling/Gwar, while on the other being deadly serious. 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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