The Beatles aren’t a controversial topic amongst hard rock music fans, right? That never goes wrong when we bring that up. Nobody thinks the Beatles were overrated.
Nobody is going to bring up that John Lennon was a wife beater. That’s definitely not all going to happen in the comments section, I’m sure of it. Anyway, apparently the Beatles were a massive influence on Black Sabbath bassist Geezer butler.
In a recent interview with Michigan rock station WRKR (that was transcribed by Blabbermouth) Butler explained how the Beatles were a major influence on him:
That makes sense. No mater how overrated you think The Beatles are, they caused such a monumental shift in music that it’s hard to find a band that can’t claim a direct or indirect Beatles influence.
Even The Clash who sang “No Elvis, Beatles, and The Rolling Stones” can’t pretend The Beatles didn’t affect them. The Beatles obviously touched everyone.
Rick Rubin is an absolutely legendary music producer whose work spans several genres from hip-hop to heavy metal to punk to funk to pop.
Having started out as a hip-hop producer primarily, he gained a positive reputation amongst rock artists after producing Slayer’s 1986 masterpiece Reign in Blood.
Many consider him one of the greatest producers in the history of popular music, but apparently Black Sabbath didn’t enjoy the experience of working with him on their 2013 album 13 and wouldn’t work with him again. Of course, according to Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler, that feeling is mutual.
In a recent interview with Brave Words that was transcribed by Ultimate Guitar, Butler talked about the early days of Black Sabbath when the band churned out five high-quality albums in approximately three years, as opposed to the band’s later albums which took much longer, and Butler said:
And, when asked if he would ever work with Rubin again, Butler was pretty definitive in his refusal, saying:
It’s hard to understand why two legends who are beloved by so many, such as Rick Rubin and Black Sabbath, would not find much to like about each other. But I suppose some people just rub each other the wrong way.
Here’s one that I’m sure the haters will eat up. It would seem that even Bring Me the Horizon hate some Bring Me the Horizon songs.
According to a video uploaded to Twitter, frontman Oli Sykes heard a fan requesting the band’s 2019 hit single “Medicine” and responded rather dismissively about his own song during a recent performance in Germany.
Presumably, Sykes thought highly enough of the song in 2019 to put it on the album and release it as a single, so it would seem that somewhere in the last five years he’s become disenchanted with his own pop-metal hit song.
In fact, in a 2019 interview with NME, Sykes and then-keyboardist Jordan Fish had a lot of positive things to say about the song.
Well, it was more Fish saying good things about the album, but Sykes seemed to agree with Fish’s statements. Here’s what Fish said at the time:
The move towards a more pop sound on “Medicine” was unpopular with a lot of metal fans, including the MetalSucks staff circa 2019.
A lot of metalheads accused them of becoming a pure pop band, and forsaking their metal elements altogether. So maybe the backlash t the song soured Sykes on his own creation.
But then there’s also the fact that Fish split from the band late last year and, as we’ve been reporting, it wasn’t as amicable a breakup as it was originally painted to be. So perhaps Fish’s involvement with the song has something to do with Sykes changing his mind.
Don’t worry, Metallica fans, the band didn’t suddenly become crypto scammers. Or, at least, it seems unlikely that they were supporting the crypto scam company.
Metallica may have done some questionable cross-promotions in the past (the Mission Impossible 2 soundtrack comes to mind) but, so far, it seems that they haven’t stooped to actually scamming their fans with crypto.
In a series of tweets that started around 8 p.m. EST yesterday — which have since been deleted, but caught the eye of Loudwire — the band’s hacked Twitter account promoted “a dynamic new token on the Solana blockchain poised to revolutionize how you experience events and shop online.
” The tweets made a few other dubious claims about the cryptocurrency called METAL such as that Ticketmaster was involved with the currency as an official collaboration as was a crypto firm known as MoonPay.
MoonPay responded to the posts by warning their followers not to trust the tweets, pulling off a few decent Metallica puns in the process, tweeting:
As stated earlier, the band has since deleted the tweets, leaving only a few retweets about the incident as the last evidence that anything strange had happened on the account.
Now we can all go back to letting bands like Avenged Sevenfold and Megadeth run their own crypto scams. That way Metallica can focus on things like trying to scam kids out of their V-Bucks by having an event in Fortnit. Honestly, that might be sketchier than crypto.
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