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Originally Posted by Nick1976
But Metal is falling. After 50 years it has become nothing but distortion and screaming about death, sex and anti-religion. This is pathetic.
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Originally Posted by Nick1976
And so metal is decaying and falling to pop music. Unless the next generation of heavy metal musicians have something NEW! to offer the genre it's going to become a thing of the past.
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So whether or not it's making the top 40 charts is what we're talking about? Metal seems to be thriving, radio play or not. There are tours and festivals all over the place, all the time.
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Originally Posted by Nick1976
The metal we hear today has no distinct qualities. It's just this band trying to be as good as all the other bands, and so they end up sounding almost the same. There's no creativity involved. This saddens me to see metal die. I want to be able to enjoy newer music. But I can't unless new bands actually offer something original.
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Most members in here could provide much, much more in terms of counters to your view. I mean, if you insist on ignoring everything new going on, then yeah, there's nothing new or interesting or good going on.
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