Whether it's his championing of Swedish party metallers in their early days or his love of Norwegian blackened punks Kvelertak when they first broke into the metal scene, frontman has never been shy of letting people know when he's enjoying a new band. In a new interview aired on Metallica's own podcast, (as transcribed by ), Papa Het reveals that he has been digging the music of one of the newest heavy metal supergroups to hit the scene - as well as his joy at realising that the band featured an old friend of Metallica's in their ranks. "As far as new music goes.
..let's see," he muses.
"I flipped through Sirius a bunch. I mean, it's just so easy to go on to your playlist and listen to the same stuff over and over. And if I'm not listening to the radio of some sort where someone else is in control, I'm not learning new stuff so much.
I don't like getting caught in that rabbit hole: 'If you like this, you might like this.' And then sometimes that works. Sometimes it doesn't.
That's a computer telling me what I might like. But listening to the radio, I guess the newest thing that I was surprised by and made me smile was Category 7, a band that's kind of a collaboration of few people." Category 7, formed only last year, features Armored Saint and former singer John Bush, ex-Machine Head man and current Kerry King alumni Phil Demmel and members of Exodus, Adrenaline Mob and Shadows Fall.
In the early 80s, John Bush was asked by Metallica to front the band in light of Hetfield sti.
