Metal Reviews

Its not. I just did not care for it that much. Was not "catchy" enuff for me. At the time, it drove modern rock away from the tv/radio and we lost alot of cool bands because of it, and to this day it has taken an eternity to even get melodic leads or sing-a-long chorus back into American Rock Culture.
I just have a grudge on that scene in general
Though i do admit to owning many of the albums (STP, Alice, some Nirvana/ Mad season, Soundgarden..etc)

It just drove away the better bands IMO.

yes Cornell has a good voice, but the first Audioslave was just not my cup of tea.

Audioslave is mediocre through and through. Cornell has a killer voice, but Soundgarden was his band. His solo album sucks, so I have no faith in his next solo album.

Anyway, grunge replaced rock and that sucked, but there were some great grunge bands out there.

For radio shit it is ok (Audioslave), you know I will take Nirvana or Soundgarden anyday over Trixster, Kix and Winger......... That is just me though, at least grunge had some soul to it or something and just didn't feel like a plastic fashion show.

Though I absolutely hate grunge, it wasn't what killed metal. Metal commercially killed itself because it got too complex for the average fan to grasp. In the late 80's/ early 90's you had all these great bands releasing monumental albums, that were just too technical and powerful to sell to the mass. Gargoyle "Nothing is Sacred", Sanctuary "Refuge denied", Wicked Maraya, and the list goes on and on. So the labels turned to grunge which was the complete opposite. Simplistic, mellowed out and with whining replacing metal's rage and energy. So that started selling, and when the big bands like metallica started borrowing elements from that sound, metal went to the underground. Of course painkiller came out in 91 and send them all straight to hell but that's another story alltogether

Leee is right about the plastic fashion show, at the end of its peak poser metal adopted the pop mentality and produced songs catered to sell, hence lost the "street feel" of bands like Skid Row and such. Grunge did have soul at it's origin, but it wasn't long before it turned into a dope show, the washed up icons of which you can see even today (courtney anyone?). All in all I find it to be a plague in the music industry, not because it hurt the sales for heavy metal, but because it basically killed technical and powerful music in the market.

And that's all...But we can't say about "death of metal" in the 90s. For instance because of Black Metal, which was far from being complex (so it has perfectly adjusted itself to the fashion of the 90s), but it was still METAL and it was popular then