Rock Rules The Top 20 Again
Guitar music back with a bang in a new renaissance.
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HERE’S ONE IN the eye for those who bang on and on about rock and guitar music being dead – one of those being Kiss’s Gene Simmons, who earlier this year repeated the often-spouted claim that “new bands haven’t taken the time to create glamour, excitement and epic stuff”. He cites Foo Fighters as an exception to the rule, but points out that Dave Grohl and company are “a twentyyear-old band”.
This week’s national UK album chart (week of March5-11) suggests that Simmons’s claim about rock being dead is standing on very thin ice: up there in the No.1 spot are Brighton-based metalcore band Architects with their ninth release, For Those That Wish To Exist. Yes, a British heavy metal band has topped the albums chart. And Architects are not the only rock band to have achieved this memorable feat in 2021. Bring Me The Horizon, You Me At Six, Mogwai and the aforementioned Foo Fighters all did the same.