Johnny Screwbags came with knives on Neighbors Bleed, a nu metal reckoning for the politically apathetic

Johnny Screwbags came with knives to his latest track, Neighbours Bleed. It opens on a ’90s melodic metal guitar motif, thick with saturation and reverb, and before long, he reveals his stripes as a veritable rap renegade, powered up by the spite of social oppression and injustice. The bars land like written indictments, spat through gritted teeth, while the rhythm section stomps with familiar nu metal swagger. When the bouncy augmented chorus hits, it delivers all the infectious energy you would expect from the most unashamed rap rock, yet the mood stays rooted in real anger rather than parody. Neighbors Bleed gives you somewhere to put the rage that builds as the railing verses scathe against the tendency for people to drift through life in comfortable apathy, as long as they are not being turned into society’s latest scapegoat or target. The hooks loop around bitter truths about blood on hands and shrugged shoulders, giving the track the feel of a protest chant dragged through concrete and distortion. Johnny Screwbags arrives as the blistering new Denver nu metal project from bleed moxie (Mitchel Paulson), a long-time underground hip hop mainstay and former Twin Cities heavyweight who has already been tipped by […] The post Johnny Screwbags came with knives on Neighbors Bleed, a nu metal reckoning for the politically apathetic appeared first on A&R Factory.

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Johnny Screwbags came with knives to his latest track, Neighbours Bleed. It opens on a ’90s melodic metal guitar motif, thick with saturation and reverb, and before long, he reveals his stripes as a veritable rap renegade, powered up by the spite of social oppression and injustice. The bars land like written indictments, spat through gritted teeth, while the rhythm section stomps with familiar nu metal swagger. When the bouncy augmented chorus hits, it delivers all the infectious energy you would expect from the most unashamed rap rock, yet the mood stays rooted in real anger rather than parody. Neighbors Bleed gives you somewhere to put the rage that builds as the railing verses scathe against the tendency for people to drift through life in comfortable apathy, as long as they are not being turned into society’s latest scapegoat or target. The hooks loop around bitter truths about blood on hands and shrugged shoulders, giving the track the feel of a protest chant dragged through concrete and distortion. Johnny Screwbags arrives as the blistering new Denver nu metal project from bleed moxie (Mitchel Paulson), a long-time underground hip hop mainstay and former Twin Cities heavyweight who has already been tipped by […]

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