Jagers1994 said:
Fatalis67 said:
Everything popular is a pointless trend that's popular for a month before nobody listens to it again. I listen to metal, it's infinitely more interesting and doesn't change with trends. It lets the music evolve slowly and more naturally rather than changing dramatically every couple of months to mimic the latest trendy band.
What the hell do you mean metal doesnt change with trends.
Just as a couple of examples hers metal from the 70s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aIhh9nFYv4
From the 80s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e322vTpTyOE
90s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRYDetbwegs
Nowadays
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klweUM8wj4g
The 70s were about working class metalheads who put all their heart and soul into a song.
The 80s were about being rich and being better than everyone else. And coke.
The 90s were about not being rich and not doing coke.
Nowadays metal is all about being a scapegoat for politicians and overall being a steriotypical as possible. Thus giving metal a bad name.
I know all these examples are very mainstream. Thats the point they are mainstream because they are trendy.
Okay the OP. Yes music has gone down the shitter. I like the older bands better than the new crap. I miss when musicians actually put their soul into music. They sung well and played amazing guitar and bass, drums. It used to sound like this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyG6ubvDQ34&feature=channel_page
But alas no more.
Yeah, older music, but not too old, is better. You compare the huge bands from the late 80s/early 90s (Slayer, Metallica etc.) and there was none of this shit about looking good, it was about the music and getting drunk. And it stayed like that with bands that grew up listening to Slayer and Iron Maiden and Megadeth, bands like Pantera. Then a couple of years passed and everything was going fucking awesome. Pantera were one of the biggest bands in the world. Slayer just kept on rolling out amazing music (Except for Divine Intervention, of course). Death Metal was on the rise and getting better each year. Goths used to be the only people to shop at Hot Topic. Things were good.
Then all the young lads came along. The people who grew up listening to Pantera. Bands like Avenged Sevenfold and My Bloody Valentine, or whatever the fuck it is. Fucking tryhards. They try so hard to be metal and to be cool and look at them, they fucking fail at it. Not so much MBV, they have some good music and can play really well but holy shit, the singer is fucking terrible and they have so much shit music, it cancels out the good music. Avenged Sevenfold though, ohh man. Theyre so bad that not even playing a cover of Panteras most popular song, Walk, could save them. A song which was fucking ruined by them btw, mainly the singer. I mean come on, he sounds like one of the whiniest little bitches I have ever heard. Not to mention that they look like fucking stupid when on stage and in music videos, with all the make up and shit.
Eventually though, this fad will die. Hopefully, before I die. Just so I can find a guy who used to be emo or scene of whatever when he was younger and laugh at him. Just point and laugh in the middle of the street. When bands like My Bloody Valentine and Avenged Sevenfold have died as bands and I walk down the street without seeing some kid who makes me rage at everything they reperesent. Ahh, thinking of that, when this trend has passed, is a great thought.
/rant
