The electronics are there, but it’s a raging rock tune that’s not far off the mark. He introduced the idea of his electronic evolution slowly with the single “Shock the System,” which is probably the nearest thing to a classic Billy Idol tune on this record. In fact, it has a couple of my favorite Billy Idol songs on it. The album is mostly forgotten now, but I believe it’s gotten a bad rap. Cyberpunk landed in the discount bin within months of its release, and it would be more than a decade before we’d hear new music from the rocker. Instead, it almost ended Billy Idol’s career. Idol made a name in the 1980s with punk-influenced hard rock, but in 1993, he threw fans quite a curve ball with an electronics-laden concept album about the dark side of technology. Billy Idol is the first artist in this series that probably doesn’t strictly qualify as “metal,” but 1993’s Cyberpunk definitely meets the other qualifications – and there’s a lot of crossover with the metal crowd.
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