Not only am I very open minded when it comes to music, but I am far from the trademarked "true" metalhead you speak of. I understand what youre saying, and I agree in large part, but when i bitch about a band sucking, its particularly aimed towards my discontent for the means in which the music industry is run and why a band that shouldnt be as famous as they are, have apparently exploded onto the market with no prior touring. discontent in the way that popular music isnt what is actually played on the radio, and in the way that bands are being signed, not on talent, but rather on how they measure up based on a formula involving the ratio of much money the record label stands to make from the band compared to how much money its necessary to spend getting the given band to the point of making a profit and all in relation to the time frame it takes to make all this happen.
i know this may seem like a stretch, but chew on this (it helps to explain part of my displeasure with the whole music thing in general)
The radio station format in america which boasts the most amount of stations is Country, while the most popular station format is urban, yet it holds one of the smaller markets of station formats. why you ask? because to the radio execs, inner-city minorities do not have the money to go out and purchase certain goods, thus making them unappealing to advertisers, thus providing no forseeable revenue for the station. country, however is profitable (for some sick reason) but as a format, it doent even make the top 10 of popular formats in 80% of the countries radio markets.