Is Rock ‘N’ Roll dead? Well, despite some – including the Kiss Simmons gene, thinking that it is – the ghost singer Tobias Forge believes that the future of rock music is brilliant.
In a new interview with ConsequenceForge insists that the next Big Rock ‘N’ Roll Act is just waiting in the wings.
“I think it was Gene Simmons who said it most of the time, but many people have said that rock ‘n’ roll is dead and there will be no new headliners,” he said. “I understand that it was sparse, but I think that with the unfortunate disappearance of many [legacy] groups … I think that over time I think there will be more [headlining rock] bands.”
With gender veterans like Kiss Break Up after 50 years, it is certainly time for New Blood to enter the world of rock. Forge points to Sleep Token, Måneskin and Greta Van Fleet as those who wear this flag.
“These are all new groups. I think they prove that you can absolutely go to places. You can form a group tomorrow and to theoretically become a big group in a few years. I think you do it trying to want to create something.”
In the eyes of forge, there is a little damage to the new groups. “I think there is this strange time phenomenon that occurred somewhere in the 2000s when everything that was old was” old “, and everything that came after was” new “,” explains Forge.
This is something forge is at age. Older music fans often remain through rock and the “hierarchy” of rock and metal, forge notes. “There is this idea in large bands of metallic community that the hierarchy is based on age,” he says. “”[Post-2000s bands] Continue to be labeled as new, in particular by people who at the time were in their twenties or thirties or quarantine and who are now in the forties, the 1950s, 60s. ”
He continues to defend Greta Van Fleet, who Roller Labeled “expert outing” in 2018 to look like LED Zeppelin. The group has been described as “derivative” since they hit the rock scene. “I don’t want to hear anything about Greta Van Fleet now, because I think their intentions are true,” he insists. “They just looked like someone else, but it’s not their fault! So stop.”
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Elsewhere in the interview, Forge Harks return to the beginnings of the Avenged Sevenfold download festival in 2014. Just like with Greta Van Fleet, this looked like another form of older fans rejecting everything they consider “ new ”, whatever the quality of a group.
Forge noted that the youngest rockers feel less prejudice towards the “new” groups, while they grow with them. “If you ask many of our fans who are 15 years old now, just the fact that our group has existed for 15 years, do you think they are thinking that we are a new group?” he said. “No! And that’s how it should be.”
Of course, Forge is aware that certain acts – including Ghost – receive Flack for being inspired by the “old” groups. But, in his eyes, many emerging acts take inspiration as a springboard, forging something completely new.
“I understand that we are only a mercy / Blue Öyster Cult / Alice Cooper Wannabe Band spell,” he jokes. “But you have to do something new. Do not look at your only idol and say: “I want to be like him. I want to be like her. I want my group to sound exactly like this group. This will probably do not do you anywhere.
