leee wrote:
FrigidSymphony wrote:
As Ken said, the risk with metal become mainstream is that it might degenerate because mainstream audiences don't care about the music quality, just about being 'in'. There should be something like MMTV (Metal MTV) that makes it a point to play good metal to appeal to a wider metal fanbase. Sadly, I only see dark times if metal is to be commercialized. However, we could all start listening to classical music and worshiping Glenn Gould, saying how great his Goldberg Variations are...
Dude, it is just the 80's all over again. you are like what? 16? Just your turn and this Dragonforce stuff is just like WASP in the 80's cool band, same with TS. There will be tons of crap (Hell all the old school thrash freak like Holy Terror forget that almost all 80's thrash was major label and the rest nobody heard of until the advent of the internet). The best HM will float to the top.
Shit, Priest, fucking Iron Maiden, they are all commercial as fuck and sold a ton of albums, nobody shits on them. The bullshit and trends will pass in a few years like it always does and only the true will be left. Don't freak, it isn't the end of an era or anything... It just means us NA's will get to see some good Euro Power Metal live.
Dude, age has nothing to do with this. Cut the shit. This is not just like the 80's! Back in the 80's a band could release multiple albums on the same label, now they're lucky to still be signed 6 months after the album is released! And it still could have sold a million copies.
It is not like the 80's at all. Sure, in the 80's labels signed a bunch of similar bands to make a buck, but like I mentioned earlier, there was a measure of care when it came to the actual bands and their music that doesn't exist today.