Hey Ugly, what do you think of these songs? This is more my style
Ratt - Hell. Yes. 'Eat Me Up" is as good as the classics. (Think I turned you on to this last year, glad you dig it.)
Slipknot - Nah, sorry. Not for me. Too gimmicky, too growly, too derivative, too processed ... just TOO.
Godsmack - This one, fuck yeah. Dig the first two records, when the staccato riff was still sorta fresh. Helmet and Deftones, same thing. Before all the clones, who eventually got the sound dismissed as "nu metal."
Funny, in '99 critics wrote off Godsmack as an Alice in Chains rip-off. I can't even hear that influence anymore, though I thought I could at the time. Probably what I liked about them. No one makes that comparison anymore.