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(48:06) Es gibt hier zu Lande Leute, die STATIC-X Einbahnstraßenmusik und latente Unoriginalität vorwerfen. Gerecht werden diese Kritiker der Band nicht - erst recht nicht in Zeiten, in denen ein Klischeekonstrukt namens Metalcore als Stein der Weisen gepriesen, unsäglicher, zahnloser Dorfdeppenkonsensmist wie 3 Doors Down, Nickelback und Staind als Rock-Urkraft fehlinterpretiert und Nervquallen wie Madsen

STATIC-X has as many detractors as they do fans, and one of the reasons may be that the band came around at the same time as most of the nu-metal groups — and even though STATIC is not nu-metal, they're somehow guilty by association in the minds of some. Another reason could be that the group's MINISTRY-meets-WHITE-ZOMBIE sound, filtered through an electronica sensibility, might have seemed derivative and one-dimensional, with frontman Wayne Static and his large hair cutting a goofy figure to...