NON-METAL (BUT KINDA METAL) INFLUENCES

I’ve been pretty mellow and low-key lately and I’ve been matching my music choices to my mood. There’s not a whole lot of mellow metal out there, at least not a lot I like (ugh ISIS, FML), so I’ve been channeling those moods elsewhere. Enter stage left, Johnny Cash.

Anyone that’s heard his cover of Nine Inch Nails’ “Hurt” knows what I’m talking about here. I could listen to that song five times a day, everyday, and I think it would still hit as hard every time. And if “I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die” isn’t just as brutal as “I wanna rip you wide open just to see what you’re made of”, I don’t know what is. 

More importantly, I don’t think there’s a metal band out there that doesn’t have mad respect for the OG Man in Black, if not notably influenced by him. We all know metal’s (bloody) roots lie in classical, blues, and jazz music, and most of us have musical interests outside the genre. It’s not a question of “What kinda of music do you like? …besides metal” but rather, what non-metal artists are actually kinda metal after all?

-Julia