finetune artist: Manic Street Preachers

Manic Street Preachers

Equally influenced by glam and punk, the Manic Street Preachers came barreling out of the gate with enough narcissism and nihilism for both movements combined. Surviving even the mysterious disappearance of their guitarist, the Manics were Wales's biggest musical export since Tom Jones, and, in turn, became the forefathers of a very vocal movement of young Welsh bands in the late 1990s.