IoMP 71: Skillet - Are They Rock or Metal?
The debate we thought would be more of a debate.
In this quick-hit episode of the Influencers of Metal Podcast, Collin and Tom tackle the long-standing (and honestly confusing) debate over Skillet’s genre status. Is it the chunky riffs from Collide and Comatose that earned them the “metal” tag? Or was it just the mid-2000s tendency to call anything with distortion “metal”?
They explore where Skillet fits in the tangled mess of 2000s post-grunge, nu-metal, and Christian hard rock—and why, even at their heaviest, they’re still a few power chords short of being metal.
Come for the music talk, stay for the digs at Unleashed, wrestling theme songs, and a shoutout to the very metal sins of Tim Lambesis.
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