Apparently unsatisfied with their comments on Avenged Sevenfold, Underoath is now setting their sights on Metallica. The band spoke to Metal Hammer saying:
When we were on tour in 2006/7, the tour manager for Anti-Flag was talking to me, and he asked what my favourite Metallica record was. I said I didn’t have one. Not that I liked them all, but I didn’t like any. He was like ‘what?!’ I said I didn’t like them, I didn’t think they were any good. He got really startled then almost offended. He was literally slamming the bar saying, ‘there is no F-ing way you play the music you do, the way you do, and not like Metallica’.
I can listen to that stuff, and maybe if I was alive 30 years ago it would mean more to me; I respect them, but I just don’t like them. I get that they’re important, but not to me. For me Kurt Cobain means more: he played like trash but he had an intensity. It’s not about your chops, it’s about creating a feeling.
People can say, ‘if it wasn’t for Metallica, you wouldn’t have a scene to play to’, I’ll give them that, but I still don’t like them. Maybe one day I’ll look back, having changed my mind about Metallica, and think what a stupid 25 year old I was.
The band released Lost in the Sound of Separation in 2008.
Source Apparently unsatisfied with their comments on Avenged Sevenfold, Underoath is now setting their sights on Metallica. The band spoke to Metal Hammer saying:
When we were on tour in 2006/7, the tour manager for Anti-Flag was talking to me, and he asked what my favourite Metallica record was. I said I didn’t have one. Not that I liked them all, but I didn’t like any. He was like ‘what?!’ I said I didn’t like them, I didn’t think they were any good. He got really startled then almost offended. He was literally slamming the bar saying, ‘there is no F-ing way you play the music you do, the way you do, and not like Metallica’.
I can listen to that stuff, and maybe if I was alive 30 years ago it would mean more to me; I respect them, but I just don’t like them. I get that they’re important, but not to me. For me Kurt Cobain means more: he played like trash but he had an intensity. It’s not about your chops, it’s about creating a feeling.
People can say, ‘if it wasn’t for Metallica, you wouldn’t have a scene to play to’, I’ll give them that, but I still don’t like them. Maybe one day I’ll look back, having changed my mind about Metallica, and think what a stupid 25 year old I was.
The band released Lost in the Sound of Separation in 2008.
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