Originally Posted by The Batlord

I suppose you're unaware that in the early 00s there was a movement in metalcore that combined it with melodic death metal and the more cringe elements of post-hardcore, giving us a form of metal that is more reviled than hair metal but not so much as nu metal: melodic metalcore. Even I could give a **** about the vast majority of it, and I'm a cheesy ****. So of course it got crazy popular, bands started coming out of the woodworks, and "mainstream underground metal" has kind of been a ****show ever since.