This is literally a bit I’d dream up and post in the fake news comm. Breaking Benjamin is a buttrock band that was popular in the aughts and I think they did the music in one of the halo games? Or am I wrong.
Lazily written, usually 3-chord, radio-friendly-bullshit music, though the sound usually evolves with the current trends to some degree. Some examples:
1970s: About 85% of Kiss’s back catalogue, a fair amount of Ted Nugent, you could make an argument for Foghat… The term isn’t usually applied to pre-glam/hair stuff, though. But it absolutely applies to Kiss.
1980s: Most of the glam/hair metal scene (Motley Crue, Poison, notably a single track by Warrant that the label forced them to put out as a single and ended up being the one song everyone thinks of if you mention vapid 80’s party rock)
1990s: Staind, fair amount of Godsmack, Papa Roach, Crazy Town, POD
2000s and up: Five Finger Death Punch, Breaking Benjamin, Creed, Nickelback, Puddle of Mudd, Shinedown, and more recently Imagine Dragons
…It’s a nebulous label at best, but if you hear a song playing and you immediately think, “ugh, not this shit again,” there’s a good chance it’s butt rock.
When it comes to early-to-mid 2000s rock, there’s actually a difference between nu-metal and buttrock. Crazy Town and P.O.D. are nu-metal, Papa Roach was nu-metal at first and then became buttrock.
2000s buttrock aka ”post-grunge” is anything that sounds like Nickelback, such as 3 Doors Down, Theory of a Deadman, Hinder etc. Also, it sucks and is possibly the worst music subgenre in history, plus it’s full of chud bands.
I think it’s the sort of overproduced, moderately distorted wall of noise style with a male vocalist kind of sleepily whine-singing in between bouts of still-legible fake screaming that was mainstream rock in the '00s? I’m not sure what the actual “genre” definitions are, but that’s how I’d describe the examples I know of.
This is literally a bit I’d dream up and post in the fake news comm. Breaking Benjamin is a buttrock band that was popular in the aughts and I think they did the music in one of the halo games? Or am I wrong.
Lmao, yes, in Halo 2 iirc
So I wasn’t misremembering. I have memories of being in gamestops in the aughts and always hearing them over the radio.
It played in the rumpus room level, to be exact.
Okay, I’m almost afraid to ask but… what is buttrock?
Lazily written, usually 3-chord, radio-friendly-bullshit music, though the sound usually evolves with the current trends to some degree. Some examples:
…It’s a nebulous label at best, but if you hear a song playing and you immediately think, “ugh, not this shit again,” there’s a good chance it’s butt rock.
When it comes to early-to-mid 2000s rock, there’s actually a difference between nu-metal and buttrock. Crazy Town and P.O.D. are nu-metal, Papa Roach was nu-metal at first and then became buttrock.
2000s buttrock aka ”post-grunge” is anything that sounds like Nickelback, such as 3 Doors Down, Theory of a Deadman, Hinder etc. Also, it sucks and is possibly the worst music subgenre in history, plus it’s full of chud bands.
I think it’s the sort of overproduced, moderately distorted wall of noise style with a male vocalist kind of sleepily whine-singing in between bouts of still-legible fake screaming that was mainstream rock in the '00s? I’m not sure what the actual “genre” definitions are, but that’s how I’d describe the examples I know of.
yup it has a fakenews comm flavor to it