Jeff Waterssin mukaan metalliscene tarvitsee seuraavan ”Metallican”

Kanadalaisen metalliyhtye Annihilatorin kitaristi/vokalisti Jeff Waters toimii parhaillaan tuomarina Kanadan Wacken Metal Battle kilpailussa. Mies on antanut Broken Neck Radiolle haastattelun tuomaroinnin lomassa jossa pohtii metallin nykytilaa maailmassa. Miehen mukaan metallimusiikki voi paremmin kuin aikoihin mutta silti genre tarvitsisi sen seuraavan nuoren ”Metallican”, joka veisi sitä eteenpäin uudelle tasolle. Voit lukea Jeff Waterssin mietteitä aiheesta tästä:

”It’s getting in the right direction now for, I’d say… about… c’mon, how long now… Let’s say about seven, eight years, it’s been heading up and up and up everywhere I’ve been going. Even in Europe, where it’s always been big, it’s been going up and up as far as metal’s popularity.”

He continued: ”I think there was a phase maybe six, seven years ago where young bands would just go back and listen to stuff they’d never heard before, like EXODUS, and then rip it off and come out and, sort of, jump on a… you know, ’We’re old-school thrash.’ And then they would put this stuff out that was TESTAMENT and EXODUS rip-offs, [with] maybe some METALLICA and this and that, and it became a trend to do it. But I think some really good bands came out of the next set of bands from that, where you had people mixing WHITE ZOMBIE with KORN with LIMP BIZKIT with SLAYER with EXODUS… You had this whole new thing opening up. It’s just now we need a couple of supergroups to, sort of, really set the bar now. We need a… even a half-the-size-of-METALLICA band to come out, you know what I mean?! A new band. We need that next young METALLICA.”

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