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Metal Hammer
Metal Hammer
Entertainment
Merlin Alderslade

I have to stop fighting the overwhelming evidence: nu metal and metalcore are officially dad rock now

M Shadows and Corey Taylor on stage.

"I got into metal through Slipknot," one Zoomer barista told me last year after spotting my Killswitch Engage beanie. Success! I, an elder millennial tapping on 40, am officially still cool. Suck it, Boomers! My metal references will never go out of fashion! Surfacing still sounds as savagely heavy, as blisteringly urgent 25 years on as it ever did, and all the kids agree with m-

"Dad rock kinda stuff," the barista continued.

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