I can only speak for were I come from.
Metal hasent got much airplay in comercial shows, but that does noit mean its dead.
In the hairspray 80`s you had all these hairspray bands with ballads, kinda louring you into beliving that metal was bigger then.
That was never metal, the bands were but the song that got aired werent.
I have a few friends in the extreeme metal generee.
And its alive and kicking, Black metal is one of (if not nr1) the biggest exports of norwegian music.
In the later years more and more Metal band emerges, more and more festivals and shows.
UDO the german rockers just had a sucsessfull show in my hometown.
Black metal is now accepted in the norwegian media, act such as Satyricon have been signed by EMI. wich is rare for underground music.
They also were one of the headliners on a radio show in our capital (free concert that aired on our National Broadcasting channel on prime time last saturday.
I think the Fin`s (people from Finland) were one of the first to really open up theire Comercial valves to the extreme metal scene.
Dimmu Borgir was once NR1 in theire Top of the pops, that was way before it was family entertainment in Norway
So metal is not dead, at least here it aint, and thank God for that...
