The subsequent era of pageant headliner metallic is right here within the type of bands like Sleep Token, Knocked Free, Poppy, and Dangerous Omens (simply to call a number of). Although in the event you ask Slipknot percussionist Shawn “Clown” Crahan, it isn’t all that nice. In a latest interview with NME, Clown began off by speaking about Sleep Token headlining Obtain 2025. Clown famous that after all reputation of bands is as much as followers, and that is clearly what they need.
“They’ve their area of interest they usually have to be doing their enterprise nicely. The previous me might need torn it down, however the brand new me, the true me, is rather like ‘Hey, it is all the time as much as the followers’. The followers let the enterprise folks know what to do. The followers converse and the enterprise folks hear.
“They have to be extremely popular, and you have to keep in mind that there’s not a whole lot of good music on the market. There simply is not. For my part, nowadays there are such a lot of horrible bands proper now. I’ve seen Sleep Token, I’ve watched them for a bit and I’ve downloaded their stuff. They’ve their area of interest they usually have a fan base. It does not matter if it has divided [Download fans] as a result of which means 50 per cent are getting what they need. I now not fear about these types of issues, I simply fear about being me and about being within the second. If they are a good band, and in the event that they work laborious – because it looks as if they do – they deserve the whole lot they get.”
Clown was then requested if it is vital that pageant organizers take dangers on newer bands, and that is the place issues acquired a bit of damaging. Clown notes that the “days of nice music have come and gone in the intervening time,” which I could not disagree with extra – perhaps it is to not our preferences, however bands like Sleep Token and that complete slew of latest metallic artists are doing a little very cool stuff.
“As I used to be saying, there are such a lot of horrible bands who’re going to be our future headliners. You do not need me to begin naming off names, as a result of we’ll each begin laughing and laughing. The times of nice music have come and gone in the intervening time. We’re seeing the backlash of the pc and we’re seeing the backlash of all people with the ability to get in [to the music industry]. However the place is all people that acquired in and did it themselves? All of them want validation.
“I did not get in a band to get validated. I validated myself. When somebody mentioned I wanted to work tougher, I labored fucking tougher. I did not want the web, or socials, or something to validate me. We’ve got an actual downside now, and bands which are good nowadays – which is few and much – are being prepped for this future. We noticed that with Carry Me The Horizon. They’re an incredible band and I am a fan. I’ve listened to the band because the very, very starting they usually’re doing huge issues like headlining Obtain as a result of they’ll make that soar.
“Nice bands are being pushed into these new circumstances. What else do we’ve got [without artists like that] – a bunch of crap bands that will not draw tickets. So sure, the enterprise folks must take probabilities and push these few good bands in the proper course.”
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