System Of A Down & Maiden

[Mark]

Here's a nice little connection Taken from an interview in the latest Rolling Stone

 

[Spiff]

They obviously don't take a page from Maiden's book when it comes to lyrics, though. Can you imagine Serj Wossname singing something like Nomad?

 

[Mark]

Heh.

 

[PIV Bassman]

System of a Down rock! Has anyone else noticed there are a lot of modern bands in the last couple of years citing Maiden as an influence? Machine Head, Korn, SOAD, even The Living End have all mentioned the mighty Maiden as an influence. There are more too I have read about but I can't think of them off the top of my head. It's like Maiden have reached the legendary category and are considered cool to cite as an influence, whereas five or six years ago you wouldn't have heard too many people dropping their name in interviews.
UP THE IRONS!

 

[Hanso]

When a few songs on toxicity slow down I can here Maiden influnced guitar. Also , I tink it is song 10 from the album that sounds alot to me like it could have been a Bruce Dickinson Song fromthe Chemical Wedding album. Anyone else think that ?

I remmeber being at offshore about 2 years ago and the lead singer/guitarist for The Living End, Chris Cheney came out onstage wearing Maiden's No prayer for the dying shirt
And before the band played Growing Up(falling down) Chris said to the crowd "This one is for all the Maiden fans" beacuse it has the triplete feel too it like run to the hills , ect .... hahaha , I was probably the only guy that cheered when he said that

 

[Goreripper]

Originally posted by PIV Bassman
System of a Down rock! Has anyone else noticed there are a lot of modern bands in the last couple of years citing Maiden as an influence? Machine Head, Korn, SOAD, even The Living End have all mentioned the mighty Maiden as an influence. There are more too I have read about but I can't think of them off the top of my head. It's like Maiden have reached the legendary category and are considered cool to cite as an influence, whereas five or six years ago you wouldn't have heard too many people dropping their name in interviews.
UP THE IRONS!

In the early 90s, everyone was pushing the "Black Sabbath-is-our-greatest-influence" cart. Ten years later they're pushing the Maiden one. It makes sense really, because the Golden Age of both those bands are also about a decade apart: Sabbath 70 - 75, Maiden 81 - 87. There must be something to it however, with bands that aren't even metal writing songs about Maiden all of a sudden. Or it could just be bandwagon jumping, like everything else.

 

[Spiff]

Might be an age thing - those kids who grew up listening to Maiden are now making it big in the industry, just as those who grew up with Sabbath were singing their praises as influences when they were becoming successful.

*shrug*

 

[Blitzkrieg]

Originally posted by Goreripper
There must be something to it however, with bands that aren't even metal writing songs about Maiden all of a sudden. Or it could just be bandwagon jumping, like everything else

Yah huh...

 

[PIV Bassman]

Originally posted by Spiff
Might be an age thing - those kids who grew up listening to Maiden are now making it big in the industry, just as those who grew up with Sabbath were singing their praises as influences when they were becoming successful.

I think you're on the money there. When you look at a lot of these bands the members are in their late twenties or early to mid-thirties and so they would have listened to Maiden when they were teenagers in high school.

 

[ironcross]

On the same sort of subject..

How many bands lately have you seen with maiden shirts in their film clips? Yesterday on Channel V I saw another band called Sum 41 (Or something like that), and the guitarist was wearing a Trooper tshirt. They played poppy punk sort of stuff.. kind of a cross between Whetus and Blink 182

 

[Southy]

Yeah it is the age thing definently

 

[TRrEiTxIxRiE DTrash]

Maiden has been requested more and more on rage and Heavy Shift also.

And I was watching Heavy Shift one day and there was some song on by some nu-metal band... I can't remember who lol, but the bassist had a Manowar shirt on!

ManOwaR

 

[9mm]

Originally posted by Southy
Yeah it is the age thing definently

What's my age again?

 

[Southy]

and yesterday i seen a clip of regurgitator live and the bassist was doing the Steve Harris foot on the feedback speaker and point at the crowd bit

 

[Goreripper]

Originally posted by Southy
and yesterday i seen a clip of regurgitator live and the bassist was doing the Steve Harris foot on the feedback speaker and point at the crowd bit

That would be foldback Although in Regurgitator's case, it could well feedback quite a lot.

 

[Wrathchild]

Can't say I've heard any of SOAD's original stuff, but their cover of Snowblind (along with Slayer's Hand of Doom and Megadeth's Never Say Die) is one of few highlights on NIB 2.

W

 

[Southy]

That would be foldback Although in Regurgitator's case, it could well feedback quite a lot.

i knew what i ment