They also mentioned two bands that impressed them.
Corey Taylor and Randy Blythe were invited by Metal Hammer to discuss the current state of metal and its future.
The vocalists confessed to being disappointed with some new bands and said what many musicians agree with: that the creation of the various subgenres is "ridiculous".
“Often it’s not the bands that do this [create subgenres], but journalists or fans,” says Blythe, “As soon as you categorize a form of music, and it becomes a kind of Wikipedia article, and people start thinking, ‘These are the rules, you better follow them if you want to be part of bananacore,’ then you’re just fitting into another little uniform to wear (…) Copy and paste, copy and paste, copy and paste!”
Taylor concluded by saying that he believes categorizing a band is like creating an expiration date, and confessed that he doesn't like seeing Slipknot called nu metal.
During the conversation, they also talked about celebrities who apparently don't listen to heavy metal, wearing t-shirts of bands from the genre, such as Kim Kardashian wearing Morbid Angel . "There's a part of that that makes me want to set everything on fire," says the Slipknot frontman, "There's also a part of me that's like, 'That's it! Great! More people should know who Morbid Angel is.'"
The duo also talked about new bands like Code Orange and Power Trip and explained that the music has changed a lot: "Many of the kids in the scene today don't know that this huge metal scene that exists now didn't exist when we were coming up."
