Why do so many folks have a problem with numetal?
Granted, it's not the most technical stuff, most of the time, but there's a lot of music that's not technical that doesn't bear the same burden.
Of course, it's often a marriage of rock/metal and hip-hop... could that be the problem?
Now, granted, most of the numetal "me too" bands were crap, but that's true in every genre. A lot of hip-hop is crap... see previous statement. But hell, there's a lot of metal guitarists that play insanely fast, insanely cleanly, and couldn't write a halfway decent song if they were given all but the last chord of "Sgt. Pepper."
Don't hate numetal because Fred Durst is a talentless ego-ridden hack.
Love it because the best examples fuse two disparate musical genres into something that speaks to some people, both musically and lyrically.
/soapbox
I'm excited to see that comes of this band... could be great (half of Geoff Tate's solo CD comes to mind), could be a horror (and the other half of Geoff Tate's CD
). I'm leaning towards the up-side of the middle.