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Yes, I was afraid this was going to happen. Let me explain myself: a few years ago I read somewhere that eighties-metal (you know, bands like Bon Jovi, Whitesnake, Poison and Motley Crue with their backcombed hair, tight jeans and fluorescent BC-Rich Guitars) was making a come-back. At first you had bands like Orgy and Videodrone flirting with eighties music (like The Human League, and Duran Duran). Then bands like Backyard Babies and Buck Cherry kept the memory of Guns 'n' Roses alive. Until recently I thought this was where the eighties influence in rock stopped. But in a time where the amount of tattoos and backstage sluts is more important than musical integrity, and where amateur-pornstar and -boxer Tommy Lee can make (and even sell!!!) records it could only be wishful thinking that hope that this decade would be neglected. And now I have got the proof in front of me (and, alas, also playing on my stereo). The Noise Therapy has everything a band needs to become famous in America: tattoos, spikey hair and support slots for bands like Motley Crue (when Tommy Lee wanted to hit his drums instead of, sorry, this is too easy), Filter, Marylin Manson and Slayer. And they have got a real bad boy image: bassplayer and vocalist Rob Thiessen has even been in jail, the biography reports proudly! Their sound is a merger of nu-metal and eighties hardrock blended with samples. From this merger derives a modern arenarock which will, undoubtedly, be very successful in America, but, I hope, won't reach Europe. Because when image is almost as important as music, you get this sort of poseur-music with no real creative force. The only song that gave me a smile was their Duran Duran-cover 'Planet Earth'. Nuff Said.
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