P.O.D. guitarist Marcos Curiel has spoken out on the band’s fixed have to show themselves – saying they’re carried out with it and that they’re “in all probability the truest type of rock and roll there’s.”
The Californian nu-metal stars have offered greater than 12 million data since forming in 1992, however Curiel says they’ve needed to show themselves at each flip, regardless of the accolades and report gross sales.
He tells AMS: “No person’s ever given us something. We have needed to work tremendous exhausting to get to the place we’re at and at all times form of show ourselves over and over.
“It doesn’t matter what accolades and what we have completed, it at all times seems like we’re attempting to show ourselves to point out it to ourselves, however present it to individuals round us.
“This trade’s always evolving and there is individuals coming and going and also you get new heads in there that they are, like, ‘What?’ And also you’re, like, ‘Bro, I have been right here for years. Who’re you?’
“However I’ve gotta show myself to you now. And we simply form of gave up on that, as a result of whether or not you’re keen on P.O.D. otherwise you hate P.O.D., who P.O.D. is. That is the underside line. So we’re carried out attempting to show ourselves. We’re carried out attempting to cater and please individuals.”
He provides that being pigeonholed as a nu-metal band or Christian rock act was unfair and that there’s rather more to their sound.
“Developments come and go, and we’ll simply preserve chugging proper alongside, and we keep related as a result of we’re not following the traits,” he says.
“We’re doing what we have at all times carried out. We’re being 100% natural, P.O.D. ourselves, 4 children from a storage that grew up with a dream. And we’ve got our personal sound. And it is exhausting to have your individual sound. Persons are nonetheless looking for their sound, and individuals are chasing sounds. We received our personal, and that is what I really like about it.
“This band has form of had that curse. Whether or not it is the ‘nu steel‘ label, whether or not it is the ‘Christian’ label. There’s so many various issues that after we began wasn’t cool to some individuals. However I wish to take it again. We’re in all probability the truest type of rock and roll there’s.
“Now it is form of a pattern, which is ok, to be slightly extra constructive, as a result of it was all about being emo – darkish, evil, pissed off. However in case you do your analysis with P.O.D., there’s slightly little bit of all the things. Now we have celebration songs, we’ve got songs coping with so many various points, however we at all times convey it again to a constructive place.”
P.O.D. start a US tour with Seether and Daughtry subsequent month.
