Argh......!
Nee het is niet goed dingen in een hokje te douwen, maar snotlip heeft niks met metal te maken..., en daarom geven ze het genre een slechte naam
klitsnop is mallcore:
Mallcore: aggressive and noisy modern-rock, may or may not contain rap elements... more distorted than pop-rock like Blink 182, but has about as much to do with the metal it is mistaken for as the Backstreet Boys do.
Mallcore features lots of screaming, simple rhythms, and general lack of lead guitars - grunge and hardcore based, and usually seeks to distance itself from the metal of the 1980s, citing a conflict of image. It has little to do with popular 80s metal, and even less to do with the continual largely underground phenomenon that is true heavy metal.
Examples or mallcore include K**n, Shitknot, Limp Dickit, Defkorns, etc etc... some may claim that certain bands are not mallcore, due to differences in sound - however the similarities are so overwhelming that they can easily be put into this one category, and easily differentiated from other genres of music, like heavy metal or pop-punk, for instance.
The main point of contention between metal fans and mallcore is that the popular media mistakenly identifies mallcore as heavy metal, when there are worlds of distinction between the two.
The name comes from the combination of the words "mall" and "hardcore"... Hardcore because of the general musical influence (though grunge and general noise are also great influences), and the word mall, where it is often played (ed. note: and where the mallcore hordes typically like to hang out).
Mallcore also has an image associated, that tries to distance itself from the "glam" image that was big in the late 1980s... while the 80s were all about excess - big hair, big fireworks at metal shows, and big expensive production.
Furthermore, 80s music generated a largely happy sentiment - occasionally sad in the case of power ballads, but hardly ever maliciously angry. Anthems like "Youth Gone Wild" (Skid Row) poked fun at the "square" attitude of the previous generation, but did not actively seek their destruction, while others like "Too Young to Fall in Love" (Motley Crue) were about youthful, mostly harmless, lust, and still others like "Up All Night" (Slaughter) conveyed a message of having fun and enjoying a rock-and-roll lifestyle.
In contrast, mallcore is centered around the concept of anger... musical coherence takes a back seat to pure aggression, and often mallcore seems hell-bent on personal problems and general negativity without properly explaining itself. Mallcore is a polarity reversion without justification, it tries to be destructive but ends up self-destructive, attempting catharsis but ending up parodising itself.
This is a natural progression of the grunge idea that the media hit upon in 1991 with Nirvana, that all teenagers are negative and whiney. Lots of mallcore songs therefore feature lyrics of simplistic personal angst based on inability to overcome past conflict.
Other mallcore bands are self-glorificatory or decidedly shallow and non-expressive in their lyrics (an idea as old as the dawn of time... Poison wasn't much better), for instance Limp Dickkit, whose themes seem to indicate a general disrespect for society at large, while maintaining an excess of self-pride which is neither justified nor explicable. Such bands take the original fun aspects of hard-rock and pervert them with the underlying hostility demanded by today's popular culture... if it isn't mean, it sure doesn't sell, so certain bands want nothing more than to "cap yo ass, mofo" because that is how they celebrate.
The main thing carrying mallcore at this date in time is its current trendiness... it is estimated that a good 99% of mallcore fans listen to it simply because they do not know of anything better. They were fans of 80s metal in the 80s, grunge in the early 90s, and now have made the logical progression, while rejecting the past hastily with a dismissive "it sucks!". For example, those very same people that liked K**n three or four years ago can be heard to say that "K**n sucks now!", while heartily endorsing Slipkorn, who have roughly the same sound but happen to be slightly newer. Most of these people are just comfortably riding the trend, opening their mouths wide and allowing MTV to defecate down their throats without a flinch. These people have, for the most part, never heard real heavy metal, and are usually afraid of it, due to its assumed connection with the anathema of mallcore, the metal of the 1980s.
The end of mallcore appears to be looming on the horizon. Just as grunge went its way, so shall mallcore. What will replace it is beyond comprehension, but most of the bands are destined to be forgotten, and their former fans will move on to the next trend.