A grilled cheese sandwich dropping between the cooker and the worktop. Melodramatic weed PSAs. A particularly aggressive rooster. Not the most obvious source material for metal brutality, but then John Matos isn’t your average shredder.
For the past year, the Florida tech-metaller has been soundtracking viral videos with remarkable consistency and technicality, garnering tens of millions of views in the process. From a millennial craving chicken wings to cult Always Sunny in Philadelphia scenes, Matos’ distinct brand of heaviness flits between eerie discordant leads and blastbeat riffage to channel those moments of all-too-human rage captured on camera.
