![]() I’ve done this gig long enough that it’s not shocking when Nithing doesn’t hit the Billboard 200 after I write about it. Because, while the question eternally bounces around like a DVD player screensaver within the souls of validation-craving metalheads, “Why can’t the metal I enjoy crack the mainstream?” isn’t that intriguing of a query. In summation, even with the odd hiccup in the simulation, such as Lordi winning Eurovision and the retail prospects of Metallica’s “Master Of Puppets” being revitalized by Stranger Things, nothing has swayed my opinion that, for now, a metal song dominating the summer airwaves in any land not named Blashyrkh is extremely unlikely.Īdmittedly, that in-depth investigation was neither in-depth nor much of an investigation and had all the trappings of a duh-on-arrival space-filling intro. ![]() My takeaway was basically “lol.” That recognizably robust and rigorously tested thesis was backed up by anecdotal evidence, like how most metal positions itself as the antithesis of the mainstream, and popular metal artists don’t have the same cultural reach as the typical Song Of The Summer contenders. And that, as these things tend to do, got me thinking.Ī few years ago, I wrote about the possibility of a modern metal song being crowned the “ Song Of The Summer,” the phrase referring to the song that achieves commercial ascendancy and cultural ubiquity between “the end of May and the beginning of September,” if the time window in Wikipedia’s definition is to be believed. Oh yeah, “Bleeding The Night” is a summer song. ![]() So crank it loud, and may the party never end!” The nights when you’re having too much fun to go home and wanna enjoy every last drop. “‘Bleeding The Night’ means to drain the life out of the night. ![]() “This song title explains it all,” Janiece Gonzalez, Mean Mistreater’s singer, writes in an email. I immediately sensed it when I caught the Austin, Texas, quintet performing a high-octane set of Trad Belt-contending heavy metal sweetened with a sprinkle of midnight malevolence. Mean Mistreater’s debut single, “Bleeding The Night,” inspires a specific type of heavy metal feeling. ![]()
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