Wasssssaaaaaap!
Remember wasssaaaap? 1999 sure does. Man, the world loved that shit back then. So much so, it even made its way into the Scream parody Scary Movie one year later. Anyway, we just thought we'd welcome you all to this week's edition of throwing it backkkkk!, in the style of the era in question.
'What was going on in the world in May 1999?' at least three of you might be wondering. Well, let us tell you. It seems that people all over the globe were bonking a hell of a lot more than ever, so much in fact that the world's population surpassed six billion for the first time. In the European Union (RIP sweet prince), there was weird new money to figure out thanks to the freshly introduced Euro currency and over on U.S. soil, President Bill Clinton officially did not have sexual relations with that woman.
The pages of Kerrang! magazine was where it was at, though, with this particular issue introducing the freak metal mentalism of System Of A Down to the wider rock world. We painted bassist Shavo Odadjian gold and guitarist Daron Malakian silver especially for it. We probably had reasons.