It’s totally fair to call Tallah a nu-metal band. The Pennsylvanian quintet, featuring Dream Theater co-founder Mike Portnoy’s son Max on drums, bring the mixture of huge riffs, angst-riddled lyrics, and tormented psychological undertones that the genre became known for. At the same time, anyone who grew up with acts like Crazy Town and Adema might rear back at Tallah’s more vicious moments, which thunder with overtones of hardcore and death metal; frontman Justin Bonitz forsakes classic nu-style bravado for a believably unhinged mixture of keening and bellowing. So to call the band nu-metal is accurate — it just speaks to what that genre label means in 2019. The band’s new video for We, The Sad, directed by Paul Stamper, is a perfect visual...
