what makes metal, metal........

[Dreadbelly]

I rest my case. The stuff today is not metal. It is decended from metal, no doubt, and some of it is quite good. It is just not metal. Metal began in the 60s (Arguably) gained substance in the 70s, as well as losing its soul with stadium rock, and fizzled out in the 80s. The moment the term "Hair Metal" was coined, the movement died. Completely. Grunge came along and brought back the best of punk and metal from the 70s in hybrid form. And the moment it was lept upon and commercialised, it died to... Right about the same time Kurt had his brains blown out.

Spinal Tap was kind of the nail in the coffin for metal. At that point, self parody was just about all that was left. It had become absurd and bloated. Execs were labeling it and it was coming out in neat little prepackaged apps designed to appeal to various social cliques in clean and tidy formulated for success packages.

This one goes to 11

[bunchdescendant]

I rest my case. The stuff today is not metal. It is decended from metal, no doubt, and some of it is quite good. It is just not metal. Metal began in the 60s (Arguably) gained substance in the 70s, as well as losing its soul with stadium rock, and fizzled out in the 80s. The moment the term "Hair Metal" was coined, the movement died. Completely. Grunge came along and brought back the best of punk and metal from the 70s in hybrid form. And the moment it was lept upon and commercialised, it died to... Right about the same time Kurt had his brains blown out.

Spinal Tap was kind of the nail in the coffin for metal. At that point, self parody was just about all that was left. It had become absurd and bloated. Execs were labeling it and it was coming out in neat little prepackaged apps designed to appeal to various social cliques in clean and tidy formulated for success packages.

This one goes to 11

"Don't touch it! No! don't even look at it!"

LOL! I had a friend that recently relabeled his Fender Twin amp so it had an '11' setting! We played in a garage metal band in the late 70's (The Atomic Monks). It's a good way to lose your hearing!

I have to agree that metal is dead. Long Live Metal!!

***starts thrashing on his Les Paul copy with his amp turned up to 'kill'***

Ray