Originally Posted by Johnny_Rotter

Allright so what I'm hearing is option A with a twist, which is metalheads don't like the fact that the genre has made extreme metal commercially profitable to allow scenters and posers to take over.

I can sympathize with this to an extant, BUT all genres of music eventually move from the underground to become commercially profitable. If record companies think they can make profit off of it they will, they'll take it and water it down to make it more appealing to a larger audience.

I was in highschool when Nirvana broke. I thought this was it, the world is finally going to go punk as ****, but all that happened is a thousand pearl jam clones got signed, and labelled alternative.

Black Sabbath in the 70's was considered underground because it was too heavy and dark for many people to be commercially viable, now its just considered classic rock.

Metallica and megadeth in the 80's was considered too hard to become commercially viable now its just considered middle of the road.

When Flordia broke out (ie; Cannibal Corpse, Deicide, Morbid Saint) and then Scandanavia, it was too hard for a lot of thrashers I knew to swallow, but not for future generations. The shock value wears off and even extreme metal becomes digestable to the general public.

When melodic hardcore broke out to wash away the likes of The Exploited and Black Flag, did I like the Offspring, no not really, but did I hate the whole genre....no. I still listen to Pennywise, Rancid, Snuff ect.

Do I like Killswitch Engage no....but hear is wear I endure the wrath of internet hate. Parkway Drive, I killed the Prom Queen, Bleeding Through, Bring Me The Horizon, and dare I even say...Bullet for My Valentine are all bands I can listen to. I think Parkway Drive rocks, and that's all I can say.

In every commercial wave of metal there will always be poser bands that have no roots in the underground (ie Limp Biscuit) the best u can hope for is they get weeded out.