ok to start off with im gonna drop the satan from the argument, that was merely a joking comment that happened to look cool at the time. there are pro satan bands and there are pro god bands and theres
of pagan bands who think that satanist and christian bands are all full of beans. its natural for people to defend their music.
im only gonna say this once
the new wave of american metal...... SUCKS!!!!!!!
this of course is just an opinion.
its like another wave of glam metal, there are better genres out there, and not all of them are extreme. the average pop metal fan, seems to be completely oblivious to the wide range of metal genres to choose from. sure the industry wants to lump everything in the pop/rock section. i personally think metal is too diverse to simply call it a subgenre of rock. there the ones who come up to me at work and say "have you heard of such and such band" or "you should check out theese guys". this usually angers me, to think that my taste in metal is limited to the 200 or so bands i listen to. so when they ask me do you like this band, i usually answer "i like lots of bands, yours is not one of them".
NWOAM does get some credit fror bringing metal back to the mainstream, as does headbangers ball. but being metal is more about doing your wn thing and **** to what everyone else says, it is not about selling records or being popular. it does happen, but fame has a way of destroying an otherwise good band. examples include metallica (changing their style to suit teen whorism), cradle of filth (tshirt company), sepultura (a good thrash band then boom, overnight they play kiddie music), ect.
if youre curious about other metal genres please see the movie "metal: a headbangers journey" it should be required material for anyone who claims to be a metalhead. its fairly new, cam out last year in canada i think. it is very important because its a good way to introduce metal to the malinformed general populace. its also a good way for people curious about metal to get more info. it stirs some debate among metalheads, but thats mainly its genreology has a few 'errors' in it (such as groping doom with stoner, or black sabbath's stance as the first metal band). but its about damn time a serious metal documentry emerges.
mtv has no soverenty as far as metal bands are concerned. mtv is about popularity, metal is not. of course mtv is gonna root for whats making the riaa rich. mind you mtv thinks that brittney spears is hot ****, therefor they must be ****ing wrong. i did give them credit before but i think they gave metal less than theyve taken away. now to get more acurate opinion on a particular metal band, one must turn to a metal resource, such as
www.metal-archives.com. lets see what they say about them.
http://www.metal-archives.com/band.php?id=20825heh, seems theyve been classified as metalcore. id say roughtly 60% of metalheads think that anything with -core on the end isnt metal. from the metal archives desciption, id probibly not listen to them. they just dont seem to peak my intrest at all.
