DEPECHE MODE Frontman Dave Gahan - “METALLICA Are A Heavy Sounding Band, But They Write Pop Songs”
October 9, 2015, 8 years ago
Depeche Mode singer Dave Gahan is a fan of groups like Tool and Rage Against The Machine, reports RollingStone.com.
"I've always liked Tool," he says. "Even when I was living in Los Angeles, when they were just coming up. In fact, the guitar player [Adam Jones] used to come over to my house a lot. His girlfriend was a roommate of this girl that was living with us, so he used to hang out with us when they were just coming up. I got to see them in a lot of little clubs, but you knew immediately they had something really special."
As for Rage, which he calls a great band, he says he was always impressed with Tom Morello. "It's just great innovative guitar playing, using the guitar in an unconventional way," Gahan says. "It's in the same way that years and years ago, people like Jimmy Page were playing the blues, but much louder." He laughs. "I have a great respect for heavy rock stuff."
Gahan is able to hear a musical correlation between some metal bands and Depeche Mode. "Metallica are a heavy-sounding band, but they write pop songs," he says. "They've got their dark moments, just like Depeche Mode have, but deep in there is a tune with a catchy chorus or a pop arrangement. Certainly bands like Metallica, Marilyn Manson, Smashing Pumpkins, though I wouldn't necessarily call those metal bands, but Metallica really do their own thing and always have."
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