From punk upstart to frontman of the most famous punk band of all time, here's Carter's story — in his own words. I want to start a punk band that sounds different from anything else.” At the time it was a lot of nu-metal bands, pop punk bands, and then really techie metal bands — that wasn't for me. It was definitely the most pop sounding song we'd done but it just worked really, really well. It was really, really hard work.