I voted yes. Here's why.
Music like the aforementioned A7X, Bodom, etc is not popular now like Led Zeppelin and Hendrix were popular then. These modern heavy acts are far more underground.
However, some of what they do leaks into the mainstream. Even pop rock artists now are using detuned power chords, deep bass and heavy beats that would have been too heavy even for Sabbath or The Who or whatever band of that era you care to name.
In this way, pop acts are paving the way for heavier acts to enter the mainstream by conditioning the listening public's ears to accept heavier sounds.
It would be very difficult to tell right now which heavy acts are the ones who will survive. One would think a band like Opeth, for instance, would be remembered; but they are likely already too far into their career to break into the mainstream during their lifetimes.
So maybe none of the heavy acts playing now will be remembered in the same light as Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and their peers. But I feel that some such acts that have yet to surface may be lucky enough to happen at the right time to cement their spot in music history.
(As an aside: there is absolutely no way that Avenged Sevenfold, All That Remains, Children Of Bodom, or Trivium can be considered to even be worthy to lick the soles of bands as great as Pink Floyd.)
Music like the aforementioned A7X, Bodom, etc is not popular now like Led Zeppelin and Hendrix were popular then. These modern heavy acts are far more underground.
However, some of what they do leaks into the mainstream. Even pop rock artists now are using detuned power chords, deep bass and heavy beats that would have been too heavy even for Sabbath or The Who or whatever band of that era you care to name.
In this way, pop acts are paving the way for heavier acts to enter the mainstream by conditioning the listening public's ears to accept heavier sounds.
It would be very difficult to tell right now which heavy acts are the ones who will survive. One would think a band like Opeth, for instance, would be remembered; but they are likely already too far into their career to break into the mainstream during their lifetimes.
So maybe none of the heavy acts playing now will be remembered in the same light as Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and their peers. But I feel that some such acts that have yet to surface may be lucky enough to happen at the right time to cement their spot in music history.
(As an aside: there is absolutely no way that Avenged Sevenfold, All That Remains, Children Of Bodom, or Trivium can be considered to even be worthy to lick the soles of bands as great as Pink Floyd.)
