Some bands stick with a tried-and-true formula. These include your High on Fires, your AC/DC’s and your Niles — bands who have virtually copyrighted a sound and an approach. They are the In-N-Out Burger of metal bands, serving the exact same menu for years not for lack of creativity but out of reverence to an idea. AC/DC are the paramount example of this, churning out album after album of dirt-simple, blues-inflected hard rock songs about fucking. Their fans are the millions out there who want dirt-simple, blues-inflected hard rock songs about fucking. They don’t want a band that’ll screw that up with a string quartet or an ambient track.
