Who Destroyed Metal?

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Who destroyed Metal?

  • myhatbroke

    Votes: 92 39.0%

  • Korn

    Votes: 55 23.3%

  • Bon Jovi

    Votes: 39 16.5%

  • Pearl Jam

    Votes: 21 8.9%

  • Bad Religion

    Votes: 5 2.1%

  • Stryper

    Votes: 24 10.2%
  • Total voters
    236
Metallica when they recorded St Anger, that album sucks and is OVER compressed to the max ;)

Muzza.
 
what this post needs is a face palm smiley

The boys of yesterday are at it again:rolleyes:

let this thread sink in the abyss never to surface again... PLEASSSEEE
 
myhatbroke
-Can't say I know this group.

Korn
-Almost got the vote. I don't think they are really metal. Hard rock sure.

Bon Jovi
-Glam rock? Maaaybe glam metal.


Pearl Jam
Not metal.


Bad Religion
Definitely NOT metal.

Stryper
Weren't these guys overtly Christian? No room for Christianity in metal. Lol.

:D :D :D
 
glam killed metal. I view Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, and even Nirvana as more metal than Warrant.
 
the grunge bands and even hardcore punk band are more closer to Sabbath (who im sure most will agree are metal), and the soul of metal than poison, slaughter, winger, motley, bon jovi, skid row, etc.

glam had everyone viewing it as metal, and it wasnt, therefore when mtv stopped playing glam and started playing "grunge" most people said it killed metal. it killed glam. metal doesnt die.

of course... that is my opinion :p
 
I don't think anyone "killed" it, the focus just shifted elsewhere. Whilst bands like Nirvana and Korn were tickling the fancy of the kids, bands like Pantera, Megadeth, Metallica and countless others were still going strong and keeping it real. If anything I think Nirvana and Korn etc made...for want of a better phrase.. "True" metal stronger, more defiant. And when metal re-surfaced after all the Nu-Metal craze had subsided (thanks, in part, to bands like Slipknot. Yes, strange isn't it?) the old bands came back stronger, with a more "F**K-YOU" attitude, and in turn were joined by a new breed of young bands who were thirsty and rebelling against that mainstream mindset. The fact that many of these bands have now become the metal mainstream themselves adds strength to how much that change was needed. I am really happy with the metal scene at the moment, some of the bands out there are just downright phenomenal!
 
467 replies over 4.5 years to answer quite possibly the dumbest question ever posed on this site. Way to go guys. :laughings:
 
OK, Korn didn't get popular until 1997, at which time Metallica was firmly into giant suck mode :p
 
DC-XPL said:
For starters (yes I'm dating myself):
- RATT
- Poison
- Motley Crue
- Twisted Sister

...and all those other androgenous jerk-offs in the mid-80's.

When this trash came out, I abandoned metal for prog-rock (Yes, Genesis, ELP, Kansas, etc). I know - the music was self-indulgent, but at least I really learned how to play the guitar.
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Two words..Unskinny Bop
I am with you on this one
 
I thought that was "Bone-skinny Bop?"
Or it could just be my shitty hearing.
 
HAHA I agree with fresh, metal was born suicidal. It was never made to last long.
 
rilez said:
metal was born suicidal. It was never made to last long.
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Seriously, what the fuck? It's been around for just over 4 decades, and still going strong. Remember, we're talking about Metal here, not the pop schlock that the Corporatocracy has been selling as "metal" since the 80s.* Real Metal is bigger than it's ever been.

*Kind of like in the 90s: pop music was labeled as "alternative", which is complete bullshit. Alternative music, by it's very definition is an alternative to pop. And I'm not even off topic here since I'm talking about a genre that was comercialized and sold as the Hip New Thing, just to help feed the rich.
 
Korn personifies the beginning of Hot Topic high school kids with designer piercings so they can be dark and hardcore like everyone else. Image based crap. I didn't think they were any better or worse than any of that crap on the list of choices, but they definitely made white boy dreads and kind-of-rappish but heavy detuned 1 chord chug rock a cliche. I dont really think any band did it, it's the people that invent genre titles and such that destroy music. Guitars were meant to be something other than a percussion instrument.
 
mshilarious said:
See this is ridiculous. You can't blame grunge for "killing" metal, because Metallica sold more records during the high point of grunge than in the '80s. Metal had more airplay in the '90s than ever before. And to say that grunge killed alternative? That is patently absurd. There was more variety on album rock stations in the early '90s than ever before, including both grunge AND alternative. Crap man, have you ever seen the lineup for Woodstock '94? That was exactly what radio was like then.
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I concur.... and I was at woodstock '94... awesome....Santana and primus in the same afternoon. surreal!
 
WOW... first of all Metal NEVER died....... so NOBODY killed it. I'm a metal head of 30 years. some of these replys are ridiculous....as i this list, (who the hell is the first band anyway?). "when trash came out I got into prog"...F'kin REALLY... you went backwards bro. yes, kansas, genesis, ( who I all Love, BTW) half those bands sucked and went commercial by the time thrash was in full swing. Grunge didnt kill metal, SOUNDGARDEN IS F'KIN METAL! Cornell Is one of the Greatest singers EVER. When hip hop took over you just had to look harder to find great mteal bands. If anything country music killed metal. hillbilly bullshit.
 
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