How Tetrarch found themselves on the cutting edge of the nu-metal revival

NEWS 2021/05/12

Of all the subgenre resurgences we’ve seen in heavy music over the last two decades, the ‘nu-metal revival’ must surely be the most baffling. What sort of musician nowadays, we wonder, would willingly invoke that overwhelmingly maligned era of New Era caps and baffling hairstyles? Does its often self-destructive, bone-headed machismo have a place in 2021? And do we need to start thinking about removing the mothballs from our JNCO jeans and XXL hoodies? “It’s crazy,” laughs Tetrarch guitarist Diamond Rowe, one of the leading lights in this generation’s fast-rising nu-breed, “because we never set out to be that.” Dressed down on a sunny Tuesday morning in Los Angeles, with her guitar and a Metallica Ride The Lightning poster in the background, it’s easy to be...

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2010 release, the fifth album from the Alt-Metal outfit, produced by Mike Elizondo (Dr. Dre, Eminem) and mixed by noted engineer Andy Wallace. The album is the first from the band without drummer James the Rev Sullivan, who passed away in December. Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy plays drums on the album. Over the years, Avenged Sevenfold has built a fanatical fan base that includes more than one million fans on Facebook. They have also attracted 93 million plays on MySpace.

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