When did metal go pop

[donovan.x]

I need a rant!
I usually like to chill out on the weekends eat cold chinese, watch Kerrang or Scuzz and get inspired for some days good guitar playing, OH MY GOD!!!! What is going on with Kerrang, nothing inspiring there, its turned into a pop channel, Madina Lake, Elliot Minor(who I would love to destroy with a rather large military device), and f***in' Metro Station, there are others but my brain is starting to go soggy!! What has happened? And Pendulum I dont hate them but are they Metal/Rock or anything close, I just dont get it any more. :shock:

We need some new bands who aren't affraid to spit, shout, rock the f**k out and cause some major controversy.

 :x
And the worse offenders 3oh!3 aaaarrrrghhhhhh!!!!! It's electro pop not METAL!!!!!!!!

[donovan.x]

Thank god for Steel Panther!! 8) :lol:

[Will]

I stopped watching music channels a few years ago, same reasons.
Other than when I'm at a mates house, and for Aerosmith I air drum :D Also noticed Steel Panther on there too.
Airbourne also proved a bit of a change from the usual cr@p too

[noodleplugerine]

I stopped watching music channels a few years ago, same reasons.
Other than when I'm at a mates house, and for Aerosmith I air drum :D Also noticed Steel Panther on there too.
Airbourne also proved a bit of a change from the usual cr@p too

Yeah Airbourne are pretty good. And Gallows are massively popular at the moment, and they're great.

[gwEm]

when did metal go pop? 1978???

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj96ojGKA2A

[donovan.x]

Gallows are great but they dont get 1/2 the exposure that all these Emo/Electro pop bands are getting.

[Henk]

When record companies started drooling their commercial slime all over it....

Even former 'underground' record labels like earache started to be commercial as hell if you ask me.

Early 90's? At least bands like Death and Metallica got old and poppy at that time.

Take Vader for instance, their first demo was so insanely brutal and then they got snatched by earache who totally cr@pped their first release IMO (ultimate incantation).

Still the kids seemed to enjoy the synth athmo stuff and the 'shows' rather then the brutality of the metal gigs before that time.

Anyway things change and so they should.....

[Adam.M]

Err, it's been like that for years, IMO. Utter crud.

Though what I think's utter crud might be your idea of heaven...

[donovan.x]

Just to clarify, when I said pop I meant pop as in Britney Spears and Backstreet boys sounding, pop as in explodes, the music business seems to do that all the time but (heavy) music has become so diluted, I havn't always liked every new genre, when Nirvana blew up I didnt like them but they made sense, they had loud guitars, Kurt Cobain was obviously far from boyband material but you get these new bands, Elliot Minor are probably the best example and it is just image and worse than that its the sort of image you find on some of the shitety pop channels, I know music changes but metal/rock/grunge/Nu Metal etc have all had serious attitude and great songs, something missing from these pissy little puss $%&#ers that now polute what has always been an outsiders genre, Kerrang and the 'scene' in general need an ice age of seriously heavy shite to wipe this vomit inducing pop bollocks from the face of PLANET METAL once and for all.

DEATH TO ALL BUT METAL! :band1: PDT_007 PDT_029 PDT_045 :tfrag: :gib: :chain: :enforcer: (I just found the more button for emoticons)

[dave_mc]

Thank god for Steel Panther!! 8) :lol:

i don't know what's more annoying, the lack of decent rock/metal bands, or the fact that when a half-decent band with good players finally comes along the lyrics are so puerile that I can't even listen to it.

And I like that metro station song, it's hilarious.

[donovan.x]

Hi Dave ^ how is the metro station song hilarious?

[donovan.x]

I do obviously appreciate that popular music has it place but my main gripe is if I feel like listening to it I will go and turn on a pop channel, leave the heavy music channels heavy.

[dave_mc]

^ yeah, exactly. the pop channels by definition are meant to play what's popular.

ah, so you haven't played my patented "Who's more lame, the pasty one with the telecaster or the one with the red trousers" game? :lol:

but it's just ridiculously catchy. I hated it at the start too, but i heard it so much i started to like it :lol:

[donovan.x]

LOL pasty one! I see what your saying but usually the metal channels play was is popular within the heavy music banner and this is my main issue, I dont get the connection between Metro Station and heavy music, yeah they have guitars in the video but so did Busted but they where on the pop channels out of harms reach.

[Henk]

And how often they still promote bands with the frase "old school death metal".........

Its just that the public changed, morons in the moshpit... I wish that didnt happen but on the other hand im glad i chose a different direction for myself, i dont think i would be the right person to be an 'idol'  :wallbash: of some sort.