I haven't been able to get the single Motionless In White released earlier this week, "Rats," out of my head. It's not like I listened to it more than the initial time to write about it, but the hook was so catchy, I guess it subconsciously got stuck in my head. The song is very much Marilyn Manson worship, and the album in general seems like a giant nod to the nu-metal of a decade ago.
Case in point is the song "Necessary Evil," which even features guest vocals from Korn's Jonathan Davis. The band had to know Jon was appearing on the track because the first riff sounds virtually identical to the main riff in Korn's "Blind." Listen for yourself:
Frontman Chris Motionless made no secret of the nu-metal influences on the new record, as he told Metal Insider recently:
“It’s so funny that you say there’s a whole generation of people that weren’t around for the first round of it, the big years of it at least, and it sounds new to them. I just assume that people have listened to Korn and bands in that time period that we really like, and Korn is still a very popular band, but I think people know their old songs very well and I’m just happy to carry on the style of music that we like and in some ways I think that there’s more than nü metal found in some of these songs.
There is a very present influence on a lot of the tracks and I think it’s awesome. I think Korn is clearly still a massive band for a reason and their new record is doing really well for a reason. Clearly Limp Bizkit could go play a venue and sell it out no problem because people still really enjoy that stuff. They really enjoy those bands, and if there aren’t a lot of bands doing it now, those kind of bands might be hungry for that style in a new form and here we are to provide some of that for them.”
The entire new album, Graveyard Shift, is out today and you can stream it below. The CD is on sale at Amazon for $8.99 or $7.99 to download the MP3s.
[via ThePRP]
