Cell Games: The Songs That Inspired Our Music

Cell Games: The Songs That Inspired Our Music

Alluring nu-metal crew CELL GAMES have just dropped their killer new single and video, Jailbreak. With influences panning from nu-metal to thrash and more, we checked in with the rising metallers and asked them to exclusively offer up which songs have impacted their sound the most:

Linkin Park - Papercut

Imagine the first song on your first album being this. You couldn't ask for more! We definitely took the idea of opening with building electronic elements and then exploding into the sound of the full band here and ran with it. The perfect nu-metal blueprint.

Static-X - Push It

We actually cover this in our set when we have 3 minutes going spare at the end. I love how immediate it is and how there's barely any let up until the bridge. Great fusion of big riffs and industrial sounds too. If you catch any hand claps in our songs this is why.

Devin Townsend Project - Numbered!

There's a cool guitar thing Devin plays in this that we've taken on board. During the chorus part he's playing chords but moving the highest note around to create a melody underneath the vocals. That's all over any of our slower songs.

Pantera - I'm Broken

We're no strangers to writing a wonky feeling verse in between two big four on the floor choruses. Having a slightly off kilter part like that makes it so much heavier when the big groove hits again.

Korn - Justin

We couldn't be a nu-metal band and not include some Korn. This is another one where the build into the initial riff makes it hit so hard. There's definitely a bit of tap dancing on pedalboards at our gigs too. The formula of weird little guitar noises for the verse and a big dense, bouncing riff in the chorus is a real winner.”