An article running over at The Village Voice asserts that rap metal is officially back thanks to the work of artists like Emmure, Devastator and Hacktivist. An excerpt from it can be found below with the full read available at the above-mentioned link:
“But here we are in 2014, and that generation who grew up on that kind of music, who have been influenced by it and are unashamedly fans of it, are now creating. The most bizarre thing is that they’re creating well.
Maybe it’s because of how far metal has come since then. One of the most aggravating things about the original rap-metal movement was how it tried to combine bad rapping with bad Pantera-esque groove-metal riffage.
These new bands are drawing instead on death metal and technical metal influences to shape their riffs, and apparently have been paying attention to better rappers over the years.”
