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Originally Posted by Crowquill
I'm still not seeing the correlation between Dimebag dying and the supposed and debatable decline in the quality of metal.
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It's symbolic, I guess.
The decline time frame is coincidental - to be sure - metal was declining before Dime died. It just serves as a backdrop for the bigger point (also made a catchy subject line, I thought).
For instance, ask any baby boomer when psychedelic rock declined and they will probably tell you "when Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison died". Of course, ask any old-school metal fan about that same thing and they will tell you that Black Sabbath
transformed psychedelic rock
into heavy metal, therefore it never really declined - only evolved (less acid, more tritone, double the bass).
The question is: Is metal going to evolve... or die?
If bands like Unexpect are the next step for metal, my guess is the latter.