Spotify Is Where Music Goes To Die

Anthrax and Pantera drummer Charlie Benante is not precisely a fan of Spotify. In an interview with The Irish Times, Benante stated Spotify is the place “music goes to die” and the one cause something he does is on Spotify is as a result of he just about has to.

When requested how the music business has modified since he and Anthrax began placing out music, Benante responded: “There isn’t any music business. That is what has modified. There may be nothing any extra. There are folks listening to music, however they aren’t listening to music the way in which music was as soon as listened to. It is a completely different time now.

“Here is a wierd factor. Whereas I’ve seen folks consuming a bit of bit extra wholesome right here and there, the business of music was considered one of issues hit the worst and no one did something about it. They only let it occur. There was no safety, no nothing. Subconsciously this can be the explanation why we do not make data each three years or no matter as a result of I do not wish to give it away without spending a dime.

“I take music very critically and what I do and what I write may be very private and, for somebody to take it isn’t proper. It’s like I pay Amazon $12.99 a month and I can simply go on Amazon and I can get no matter I need. It’s principally stealing. It’s stealing from the artist — the individuals who run music streaming websites like Spotify. I do not subscribe to Spotify. I believe it’s the place music goes to die. We’ve the music on there as a result of we have now to play together with the fucking recreation, however I am bored with taking part in the sport.”

Spotify hate is nothing new, as musicians like Avenged Sevenfold frontman M. Shadows, Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider, and Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson have been outspoken towards the corporate.

Benante additionally took the increasingly-popular stance that Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich was proper in suing Napster in 2000 over pirated music, including: “They had been completely proper about it.

“You see the place it went. All these individuals who stated, ‘Fuck Metallica. They’re wealthy bastards’. They had been defending their artwork, their mental property in order that some asshole doesn’t come alongside and take your artwork. They make the cash when you simply make the artwork and also you simply give it away. Folks do not know something about this. Till you could have lived the way in which we stay and do what we have now performed, then you possibly can touch upon it.”