Not sure what this ^^^ aside has to do with these two bands, exactly, but I wouldn't assume one would fall into those camps for liking them, or really most decent metal or metal-adjacent music. I guess there are kinda "dumb" bands out there, but liking or not liking them doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the listener's moral character or mental acuity...unless we're talking about stuff like Skrewdriver or whatever, but even then I'm sure someone could make a counterargument ("I just like the riffs," etc.).tonyballz wrote:By the way, I'm not an aggro meathead or a methy scumbag. Some people actually think I'm alright.
Anyway...Can't really vote here, as I've mostly only heard Clutch in passing. Had a friend in high school who was a big fan, but I never got into them. Was into Monster Magnet for a spell, though, and did see them at Summerfest in MKE during the Dopes to Infinity tour. The set was loud! Season to Risk and a pretty silly band called Parade of Losers opened. Monster Magnet were good, for the kind of hard rock band that would get played on MTV and stations like 93 QFM. This was before nu metal/rap metal really took hold toward the end of the nineties (and a while before the garage rock revival and bands like Queens of the Stone Age got big), and I was like 15 or something, so...no complaints. Have heard that the album or so before it was the band's sweet spot, but when I revisited Dopes to Infinity on YouTube a few summers ago, it help up alright. You can hear a little bit of Shocking Blue in there, as well as a little Iron Butterfly, Sabbath, and some non-obvious seventies rock stuff. I'm not sure how 2021 metal snobs would rate it/them, but don't care too much.