Emos Cut Deep Over Machine Head's Victory

senordingdong

Taken straight from Machine Head's website...

'Machine Head's "Best Album" win at last Thursday's Kerrang! Awards over pop-rock powerhouses My Chemical Romance and Fall Out Boy has apparently cut deep with fans of both bands, prompting a flood of angry whining and sad-faced emoticons on the Kerrang! message boards. Machine Head's upset victory over the multi-platinum softcore acts sent their inherently sensitive fans into an emotional frenzy, building into a tizzy of unparalleled proportions. Wrought with dismay, polished fingernails the world over lashed out at the band and metal as a whole with diatribes the likes of "MCR really should have won!!! I'm mad now!!!!”, "what a load of ****, who the **** listens to them?" and "Stupid Machine Head!!", at times stooping so low as to say the competition was fixed, and often gravely endangering the integrity of their carefully sideswept hair with posts like "I H8 METAL, I H8 METAL, I H8 METAL, I H8 METAL, I H8 METAL, I H8 METAL, I H8 METAL".

Not surprisingly, Machine Head fans responded en masse to the tirades, lashing back in defense of the band and the undisputed quality of the album, citing critical praise, technicality, songwriting and fan response to 2007's "The Blackening", as well as the band's influence on and history within their genre, with the occasional "Machine Head piss all over anything MCR have ever done" thrown in for good measure.

To much less internet-based commotion, the band also took home the "Hard Rock Hero" award, netting them two Kerrang! awards for the first time since "Burn My Eyes" where they received "Best International Band" and "Best Video" for the song "Davidian". '

Without trying to start a flame war, I just thought this was too good to be ignored. Emo's are funny.

Mossy Monk

Bless them. "I H8 METAL" LOL.

gizmo

The comments on the Kerrang website are bloody hilarious, calling Machine Head "undeserving" of the award.

I suppose I don't have to point out the silly generalisation that all MCR and FOB fans are emos though?

Sephiroth_dude

ahahahaha what a pack of ****ing idiots,man that made me laugh,machine deserved it,fall out and mcr deserve nothing,i would'nt even give them the steam off my piss!:cool: :P

Civilian_Target

TBH, I don't get it - why is there so much praise for the Blackening? I find it bland.

8k2q1gfcz9s5d4

its the kerrang awards, who gives a fúck? music isnt about winning awards (although if my band were to win an award i wouldnt turn it down:) ). I think this is the first time ive seen emos challenging metal heads, its usualy the other way around!!

Schism

Emos don't whine, they are an orderly bunch of guys and gals who rarely set a foot out of place.
Clearly there has been some grevious error in the voting procees and they are simply trying to bring it to the attention of Kerrang.
I commend them.

senordingdong

Civilian_Target wrote:

TBH, I don't get it - why is there so much praise for the Blackening? I find it bland.

It's not about the victory, it's about the reaction.
The bloke who wrote the article is clearly taking the piss out of the emo kids.

nillox

well the rest of the bands in the catagory didnt deserve to win at all.
the reaction was hilarious.

stupidfishy

Is it rather odd that i'm a fan of both my chemical romance and machine head? 0.o
Glad machine head won though, even as an mcr fan i swear to jebus if i hear welcome to the black parade one more god damn time...

projectmayhem

i'm surprised that people are surprised that kerrang is full of emo moans. maybe the MH win will cause some sort of cull...

Jack Vegas

It's all to taste and if FOB or MCR won there would have been a decent backlash against that aswell. For all this trendy bashing of "emos" I know my fair share of thicko metalheads, I know my fair share of thickos who could be lumped into a number of stereotypes actually. For the record I'm a big fan of Machine Head and quite like Fall Out Boy aswell.

pbsuxok1znja4r

Furore over Kerrang awards, lol.

JIZZLORD

kerrang seemed cool 5 years ago. crap now

nadir

JIZZLORD wrote:

kerrang seemed cool 5 years ago. crap now

I disagree, they were **** 5 years ago too.
I was reading terrorizer back then and it was brilliant, I have no idea what it's like now though, I stopped reading about 4 years ago.

Patricide

i find most of it bland too but the point is just the hillarity of the moaning of the emo kids, tbh though machine head did deserve to win the award when you saw the rest of the bands in the catagory.