Dave Mustaine paljastaa nauraneensa kaikille nu metal -bändeille, joiden kanssa Megadeth joutui kiertämään

90-luvun lopulla ja 2000-luvun alussa metallimaailmaa dominoivat nu metal -yhtyeet. Myös moni veteraaniyhtye joko kiersi nu metal -bändien kanssa tai muutti itse tyyliään aikaan sopivammaksi.

Nyt juuri uuden levynsä julkaisseen Megadethin pomo Dave Mustaine paljastaa tuoreessa WSOU 89.5 FM -radiokanavan hastattelussa, että hän naureskeli kaikkia niitä nu metal -yhtyeitä, joiden kanssa Megadeth joutui kiertämään.

“You know, in 1992, when Nirvana and Def Leppard and Pearl Jam and Soundgarden all happened to radio in America, radio in America changed. You either had to be an alternative band, or you needed to be a glam kind of band. Remember Warrant, Poison, Def Leppard, all these bands — God, there’s millions of them.

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All these glam bands, and then you think about all the alternative bands — well, what happened to the metal bands that were on the radio at the time? Well, they kind of got swept up into the dark, and only the strong survived.

For us, we went through a period where like I said, admittedly so, we were trying to do what we were told. And it backfired. I mean, why would you pay a manager if you’re not going to listen to them?

And so, there were several situations where we would make decisions [that] were presented to us in a way kind of, like, ‘You got to do this,’ or ‘That’s just how it is.’ I can’t tell you how much we would laugh about the bands that we were forced to take out on tour with us, especially during the nu-metal period that we went through years ago. You know, all these bands that wouldn’t play solos and stuff.”

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