Weezer unleash metal-inspired new single, I Need Some Of That

Brace yourselves: Weezer are back in hair metal-mode following January’s brilliant orchestral OK Human album. Rivers Cuomo and co. have just shared the next slice of music from upcoming record Van Weezer: following Hero, Beginning Of The End and End Of The Game, Weezer have released I Need Some Of That – an infectious metalhead anthem in which the frontman reflects on being ​‘a little punk’ ​‘listening to Aerosmith’ and ​‘plugging into a Marshall stack’. Read this: 11 bands and artists who wouldn’t be here without Nirvana Rivers previously said of the inspiration for going metal on Van Weezer: ​“We just noticed over the last few years there’d be these moments during the show where I’d accidentally bust out a few harmonics or a whammy bar dive or a little tappi...

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