Frankie Poullain , bassist for The Darkness , believes that American hard rock and heavy metal bands are dead – and the blame lies entirely with the bands' attitude, in the musician's view.
During an interview with Wikimetal about the album Motorheart (2021), the band's most recent release, Poullain explained how The Darkness plays with the clichés of the rockstar persona. Seemingly superficial lyrics about cars and women are actually biting parodies of the lifestyle actually lived by some groups.
“It’s different from American hard rock bands. That’s what killed heavy metal, in a way: it was simply meaningless. That’s what killed traditional rap too, it just became a bunch of boring crap,” he said. Read the full interview here .
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