Don’t get me wrong, I’m not going to sit here and focus on one band. This was just the beginning of my discovery of bands like Nothingface and Mudvayne. Brilliance is creativity. Nu Metal bands are just bands that were influenced by their favorite bands and brought their own breed to the pony show. Now these days we’ve breed so many sub genres that now we are starting yet a new one called the “New Wave Of American Heavy Metal”, which I think is a total rip off of the NWOBHM. We’ve Genre’d and sub-genre’d so much that we have …read more

Why is it that every time a band comes out and it sounds slightly different, that suddenly we have to put a label on it and start a sub-genre. Aren’t there enough genres out there. We have been doing it since the beginning of music but started getting stupid about it in the 80’s . There was already Rock, and then Hard Rock and Punk Rock then Heavy Metal. Then something happened in Metal, someone played faster or they played harder so we had to come up with a different category. We created Speed Metal, Thrash Metal, Death Metal, Industrial …read more

Welcome to Metal Martyr, one of b5Media’s many new Music Channel blogs. My name is Scott and I’ll be your Metal blogger.
Let me begin my first blog by telling you a bit about myself. I’m a 31 year old husband to a wife of ten years. I’ve got two kids, a nine year old boy and a baby girl. I grew up in a small town and spent ten years in the military (4 yrs USMC, 6 yrs US Army). I’ve always loved music as a kid but grew up having to hear my mom playing Anne Murray, Berry Manilow, …read more