Louis Cypher
Well-Known Member
Um... I was a 1 year old. I didn't even know what music was then.Even still, I AM a pretty big Meshuggah fan and have been for the past 5 years. Why should the fact I wasn't listening to them when that album was released have any effect on whether im 'following the trend' or not?
Seems pretty unfair to be honest, I know a ton of Meshuggah fans my age who only started getting into them(through me) two, maybe even one year ago and consider Meshuggah as a partial influence. and I know they aren't following a trend.
Think you have taken my comment a little too literally mate, or mis understood who I am getting at, obviously if you were 1 when they came out with their first album then how could you get in to them until recently?? Clearly you have got in to them naturally and as a fan.
My point was aimed at the band wagon jumpers who 3 or 4 years ago would have despised Meshuggah but who now coz they are now seeing more mainstream recognition are now quoting them as an influence or or being a huge fan of in interviews. Just seems to be to me a huge trend now with metal bands that you have to "prove" how metal you are by the fact you "love" a band as technically and musically on the cutting edge as Meshuggah.... Same as post Grunge everyone and his mother was suddenly a huge Nirvana/Cobain fan!?!? Or that weird period when every shredder seemed to be suddenly a massive fan of Robert Johnson and the early blues?!!!!! WTF? Or the amount of people that bash Nu Metal, someone other than me was buying Nu Metal else hwo could bands like Korn sell 20+million albums? I don't have 500,000 copies of Untouchables??! Its the trend of bashing or embracing bands or genre's or whatever purely because its popular to do so.
Sorry if you thought I was having a dig at you coz you were 1 when a certain album came out.