Some of Minus Blindfold's influences:
1. TooL
2. KoRn
3. Deftones
4. Limp Bizkit
5. Rage Against the Machine
Drifted to the top...shining a light through the shadow, Minus Blindfold are true lachrymologists at work. Lyrics show pain and hardship, not from personal experiences, but from society. What does a person undergo in one day?
Minus Blindfold...what does it mean? The world has every human under a blindfold...blinding them from the truth. The band members are not humans. They are not alive. They are real. Born with the power of thoughtlace...born without a blindfold...beings that the blindfold could not get a hold of...cound not grab. They are Minus Blindfold.
The main goal of Minus Blindfold is to eliminate this blindfold from everyone with real lyrics...gut wrenching sound...and a new, never before seen approach to life.
Minus blindfold is very dark and mysterious, yet is very real and tined into reality. They will throw this world into a whirl with lyrics and riffs and everything inbetween driven by emotion.
Minus Blindfold has racey lyrics, some songs have earned a parental advisory such as "Follow Your Leader" and "Fairy", while others are more toned down and fun like "Crash" and "Mellow Out" which have no lyrics, but have a fast pace.
The shouting is not just to "fit in" with the music catagories it is in, they do it to get a point accross, like in "Stolen". But there is not just shouting and yelling moshing material, there is more mellowed songs towards the end like "Something About You" and "Further and Deeper".
Here is what NJ has to say about the content of some of the songs that may be a little questionable...
"Minus Blindfold has earned itself a parental advisory, not all because of the swearing, most of it is from the touchy lyrical subjects like suicide, death, and violent acts towards people. I want it to be made clear, this stuff helps us from bashing in a couple of people's heads. Our music is used to vent some steam and but it is meant to be taken seriously. But still we dont want some screwed up fuckhead to go off and go blow a couple of peoples heads off because they were mad at the world.
"Our music can be fun and can be amusing, but the subjects in the songs should be looked at carfully. They are expressing pain and we are showing the world what they go through and what WE think. No one should be offended and no one should go fuckin' nuts and go killin' people, that is what we are against in our music. "