Country has been going pop for decades, but none of that has appealed too much to me. Taylor Swift took it all a step further by combining polished pop music with more traditional singer-songwriter country. But, hey, I’m still pretty tough and evil, ok? Don’t even question that. I mean, I didn’t let my friends see it, but it was there, hidden. Way back in 1987 I was really into Motley Crue, Kiss and Anthrax, but that didn’t stop me from buying Tiffany’s eponymous debut. I suppose I’ve always had a soft-spot for well-done pop music. It’s a strange turn for me, though not completely unprecedented. I’m also told that Converge, Pig Destroyer, Enslaved and Witchcraft put out great records this year, but I haven’t heard any of those, because for the past month I’ve been unable to stop listening to Taylor Swift’s Red. Krallice’s monolithic Years Past Matter, Panopticon’s bizarre black-grass Kentucky, Dawnbringer’s epic In The Lair of the Sun God and Propagandhi’s venomously punk-infused Failed States all spent countless hours blasting out of my speakers this year. The heavy metal community responded accordingly, cranking out plenty of dark, punishing, apocalyptic records to serve as a soundtrack for the end of days.
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