Originally Posted by riseagainstrocks

Never heard either of them and from the sound of it I don't want to, however to answer your question: 2 years ago, I hated hardcore music and all things that included heavy guitars and screaming. Then I heard the my first relativly "heavy" band: From Autumn To Ashes. Now I know alot of people here don't like them but I do. Anyway, I started to listen to stuff like them and gradually became inclined to try some heavier stuff. Then about a year ago I got the self-titled Between The Buried And Me cd. I was in love. they are so rediculously heavy and technical it blew my mind. I now love hardcore and all its bastard children off-shoot genres.

Summing that whole speech up, softer and poppier music has its place in the world because it starts alot of people on the path to listening to Rock in all its wonderful versions.