Metal, A Dying Genre
Idea Of Blog:Metal, once a genre feared by parents and religeous groups alike, is now coming to the same fate it did in the late eighties.
Recap:
In the eighties the "Glam Metal" scene came to an end. The end was caused by the introduction of Power Ballads.[The first powerballad in metal was by motley Crue on their "Theatre Of Pain" Album]. With powerballads emerging metalheads lost interest, and with the emerging grunge scene moved on to get the heavier music. This killed metal until the early to mid 90's when the group "Pantera"emerged, then it all changed.
Pantera a band from Arlington, Texas, brought back the heavy metal scene when they put out the album "Cowboys From Hell". The metal scene went up from there. Pantera released several more albums such as "Vulgar Display Of Power"," Far Beyond Driven" and others. They also launched other groups such as Down, Damage Plan, And Super Joint Ritual. As the years progressed more and more bands emerged making the genre even stronger, and taking it to extrememes never before seen. Bands like Marilyn Manson And The Spooky Kids, Slipknot, Disturbed, Devil Driver, Hatebreed. All of these bands created huge buzzes and touched new bases. Marilyn Manson a band from the early 90's as well being one of the largest. A band with an original heavy sound with the odd or downright scary image exploded its way into the heavy metal world when the hit single "Sweet dreams" came into play. [Originally done by the eurythmics]. Marilyn Manson became one of the hugest and largely protested bands. However it brought about new comings in the metal community. Slipknot, also became huge with the song "Wait and Bleed". They brought a heavy sound to a new generation of pissed off headbangers. Disturbed, and Hatebreed did the same thing. Devil Driver, showed the next level also. With their heavy guitars, insane drums, and great vocalists screaming. Metal continued to grow stronger and stronger with many other bandss emerging.
Up until now Metal has continued to grow. The new generation of metal is destroying an amazing genre. the "Melodic Metal" scene is destroying the genre. This type of metal is becoming huge. Older heavier bands are selling out to this in order to continue making money and mantain its fanbase. The melodic metal seems to be nothing but a genre of pop metal. Teen girls liking these bands just because they feel that the singer, or band is hot. bands like Bullet for My Valentine, Atreyu, Killswitch engage, or even Avenged sevenfold. Bands like these are killing the genre because they are so comercial , and are making it so hard for other bands who are actually original, talented, and are doing what its all about. Metal has always been about ass kicking, face melting, head banging music. Now it seems to be about which band has the hotter band members, which band has the better melodic singer, ect. The genre is dying, it wont be long before real bands arent around, and its all melodic garbage.The genre needs another band like pantera, or slipknot, disturbed, metallica or something to save it.
Ill be putting a better worded version up in a few days.
Recap:
In the eighties the "Glam Metal" scene came to an end. The end was caused by the introduction of Power Ballads.[The first powerballad in metal was by motley Crue on their "Theatre Of Pain" Album]. With powerballads emerging metalheads lost interest, and with the emerging grunge scene moved on to get the heavier music. This killed metal until the early to mid 90's when the group "Pantera"emerged, then it all changed.
Pantera a band from Arlington, Texas, brought back the heavy metal scene when they put out the album "Cowboys From Hell". The metal scene went up from there. Pantera released several more albums such as "Vulgar Display Of Power"," Far Beyond Driven" and others. They also launched other groups such as Down, Damage Plan, And Super Joint Ritual. As the years progressed more and more bands emerged making the genre even stronger, and taking it to extrememes never before seen. Bands like Marilyn Manson And The Spooky Kids, Slipknot, Disturbed, Devil Driver, Hatebreed. All of these bands created huge buzzes and touched new bases. Marilyn Manson a band from the early 90's as well being one of the largest. A band with an original heavy sound with the odd or downright scary image exploded its way into the heavy metal world when the hit single "Sweet dreams" came into play. [Originally done by the eurythmics]. Marilyn Manson became one of the hugest and largely protested bands. However it brought about new comings in the metal community. Slipknot, also became huge with the song "Wait and Bleed". They brought a heavy sound to a new generation of pissed off headbangers. Disturbed, and Hatebreed did the same thing. Devil Driver, showed the next level also. With their heavy guitars, insane drums, and great vocalists screaming. Metal continued to grow stronger and stronger with many other bandss emerging.
Up until now Metal has continued to grow. The new generation of metal is destroying an amazing genre. the "Melodic Metal" scene is destroying the genre. This type of metal is becoming huge. Older heavier bands are selling out to this in order to continue making money and mantain its fanbase. The melodic metal seems to be nothing but a genre of pop metal. Teen girls liking these bands just because they feel that the singer, or band is hot. bands like Bullet for My Valentine, Atreyu, Killswitch engage, or even Avenged sevenfold. Bands like these are killing the genre because they are so comercial , and are making it so hard for other bands who are actually original, talented, and are doing what its all about. Metal has always been about ass kicking, face melting, head banging music. Now it seems to be about which band has the hotter band members, which band has the better melodic singer, ect. The genre is dying, it wont be long before real bands arent around, and its all melodic garbage.The genre needs another band like pantera, or slipknot, disturbed, metallica or something to save it.
Ill be putting a better worded version up in a few days.
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I never said when metal started. I said when the first power ballad started, and when metal died the first time. Avenged sevenfold and the other bands are contributing to the death because they are sooo comercial that its just bringing more and more bands in it like them and causeing other bands to have to sound like them to continue having a fanbase like it. Metal isnt really changing...Its selling out, cauing material t o get worse, causing it to die.
syco-cheechoo2, April 17th, 2008 at 04:23:41pm
Uhh, No.
Theres SOO much more then what you start with. The orginal metal band was Iron Butterfly. There not what you'd think of when one thinks meta, but THEY really started the musical style of metal. As you might have noticed, the sound completly evolovled as time went on, but always remeber bands like Iron Butterfly, Led Zeppelin, and even The Who in their later days(I'll bet you'd go around calling them classic rock bands, but true classic rock is more like The Beatles, The Beach Boys, The Rolling Stones and The Who in their earlier days. This is just the very first styles of metal).
Anywho, I can see what you're saying, and kind of I must agree with you in some ways. 1st off, Pantera: f*ckING AMAZING. Now that we have that out of the way... I think most bands today who are big need to "sell out" in a way. Think about it for a second. They arent really selling any albums or anything. 90% of people who have the music prolly stole it through Limewire or somthing of the sort. They need (want) money yanno.
Persionally, I like old metal, grunge and new metal. Lets take Metallica for instance. Sort of old school now-a-days, not much new music comming out anymore, but still lots of talent. I think they're great, after all: Its about the music (and it rocks) Now, what about Avenged Sevenfold. Young/new, steady stream of music comming out, and lots of talent. So some horney girls think M. Shadows is hot? I could care less. Its still about the quality of the music. If you go strictly by music quality, they sure as hell arent killing metal at all. They're just taking it into a new style. The same kinda thing that happened with the transition from bands like Iron Butterfly to bands like Metallica.
Metal isn't dieing, its just changing. Dont like it? I never said you had to. Just cling to your favorite era, or get used to it.
Blarg!, April 17th, 2008 at 03:31:57pm
I dont think avenged sevenfold is doing anything to the metal scene. If people like it, then they'll listen to it. People are just evolving, It's not the music. It's people. I gladly listen to Avenged sevenfold and metallica, Pantera and other metal bands. Avenged sevenfold is a totally different sort of metal, and if people just so happen to like that, then well..yeah. And I mean, Im speaking for my friends here and im sayign something that my bestfriend Matt has said, "The reason metal is dying is because people have brought into this whole emo core thing, I love my metal, but I can always go off to different genres. Metal will always be alive, It's just that people are getting bored with the same bands with the same rifts"
Im not saying anything bad about your blog, I love it, Im just saying that Avenged Sevenfold and all those other bands are different from the old school metal. And I think it's the people that should be blamed, not tha artists.
Tholomew Plague, April 17th, 2008 at 02:03:18pm
THE METAL WILL LIVE ON.
brompton cocktail., April 17th, 2008 at 01:33:19pm
dont feel bad its not just metal, i'd have to say music itself is in a bad place right now.... even my favorite band green day isnt quite the same since american idiot came out.... i still gots love though.... lets hope the future holds somthing brighter than this crap ive been hearing on the radio lately......god help music ...please....
spasease, April 17th, 2008 at 01:17:30am