Conspiracy Theory*

Lycanthrope

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Metallica's elaborate plan to infiltrate the pop music machine and infect it with metal is finally coming together. The sacrifices they've made - willing to be rejected and reviled by fans who were not privy to their plan for confidentiality's sake - are finally culminating in what will be ultimate victory. Rejoice!! The name Metallica will soon be exonerated throughout the land!
This brilliant strategy of theirs, known as Operation: 'Metal Militia', was carefully planned and has been in the works for years. Only a small, elite group of Metal Militia operatives, sworn to utmost secrecy, were allowed to know of Metallica's ultimate plan. The doors WILL open for other metal bands, now that their reconnaissance mission has payed off, it's time to bring in the reinforcements for the full-scale attack and final battle.

Metallica will use their position to manipulate the fascist 'pop machine' and subject it to total infiltration by metal bands. Metallica will also then return to making the great music they once did, once the operation is successfully completed.
Much like a host organism, the pop machine will become infected with diseased cells (metal bands) until the point it is completely overtaken and ceases to be.
At that point, the record industry execs will have no choice but to give the people what they really want, but have denied them for so long; METAL!

In the end, Metallica will sit atop the smouldering heap of musical mediocrity's ruin, with all their metal cronies, and laugh hysterically as they smoke their cigars and relish the ripe smell of pop's death. The few who survive the onslaught will be cast off the billboard charts and into darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Have strength, oh Faithful Ones, our years of suffering were NOT in vain! The sweet taste of victory will soon be ours!

Listen well, my children of Metal...

I AM the Leper Messiah, and this is my prophecy. \m/

*this theory is for purposes of ridiculous amusement only - do not take too seriously! :Spin:

but on the other hand...who knows? :devil:
 
I hopefully agree with every one of your points except that instead of Metallica going back to making good music, I see them as the sacrificial martyr to infest the pop machine with metal...
 
I've had a similar theory for a while now, despite the fact that I like the Loads as a fan of blues and rock.

Barring this conspiracy theory, Metallica becoming popular is still a good thing for metal in general...even if Metallica tomorrow made the absolute worst album ever recorded? Why?

New fans would be likely to buy some of Metallica's back catalog and be exposed to true metal. From there, they would be in awe, and would seek out other bands like them...Megadeth, for example. From Metallica, they will branch out to more true metal.

How many of you had your first experience with metal from Metallica's classic albums? I'm one of them...after hearing "Master of Puppets" in 1999, I bought Ride the Lightning, Master of Puppets, and ...And Justice For All all at once. They blew me away then and continue to do so.

How many of you got into metal through Metallica? I've heard a number of testamonies from people who bought Load and then got the black album or Justice and saw true metal.
 
ClarifyAmbiguity said:
I've had a similar theory for a while now, despite the fact that I like the Loads as a fan of blues and rock.

Barring this conspiracy theory, Metallica becoming popular is still a good thing for metal in general...even if Metallica tomorrow made the absolute worst album ever recorded? Why?

New fans would be likely to buy some of Metallica's back catalog and be exposed to true metal. From there, they would be in awe, and would seek out other bands like them...Megadeth, for example. From Metallica, they will branch out to more true metal.

How many of you had your first experience with metal from Metallica's classic albums? I'm one of them...after hearing "Master of Puppets" in 1999, I bought Ride the Lightning, Master of Puppets, and ...And Justice For All all at once. They blew me away then and continue to do so.

How many of you got into metal through Metallica? I've heard a number of testamonies from people who bought Load and then got the black album or Justice and saw true metal.

I didn't.
 
You're fucking high. :p

Metallica, faced by lagging record sales, bad press and negative public image about whining about file trading, as well as losing many of their original core fans to albums such as Load and Reload, need an infusion of cash.

Thier plan is this: Use their old material in their last few shows to hype up all the old disenfranchised fans by bringing them what they remember, offering a new, heavy, "return to the old (yeh, a joke)" and flooding the market with their crap in hopes to become rich and popular once again.

In truth, their new album, St. Anger, was written so it would compliment (ha ha) the other bands whom they'll be touring with, Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, Disturbed, or whomever, so their set might better fit into the trendy "nu" mega concert fans who are willing to pay $70 for each arena ticket.

Make no mistake, they're not doing anything for Metal or for their fans, they're doing it all for themselves. I have no problem with this. Everyone has to make a living.

Personally, I love everything up to Master of Puppets, bought Ride the Lightning the day it hit the store shelves, and pitted with them at the Stone on any given no-name headliner sundays at The Stone in SF back in the day.

They're not doing this for you, for their fans, or for any cause to further metal, they're doing it because they need to do it to survive. So, yes, there is a conspiracy there, but not what you've written about, it's much more simple and self-centered than you would like to wishfully think.

Oh well, just my opinion.

:devil:
 
ClarifyAmbiguity said:
I like the Loads as a fan of blues and rock.
I like em too, though they can't hold a candle to the old stuff.

Lycanthrope said:
*this theory is for purposes of ridiculous amusement only - do not take too seriously!
Xenophobe, did you miss this part of my post?
Btw, I'm not high, just friggin' nutz! :loco:
 
What an excellent revelation and idea Lycanthrope. U deserve a beer just for typing all that out.

Still we are enthralled by the slightest glimps of hope. Give up... metallica are dead?. But...we still believe. The problem is that there is no other band that has represented the metal scene as well as metallica. We need a new messiah.
 
ClarifyAmbiguity said:
I've had a similar theory for a while now, despite the fact that I like the Loads as a fan of blues and rock.

Barring this conspiracy theory, Metallica becoming popular is still a good thing for metal in general...even if Metallica tomorrow made the absolute worst album ever recorded? Why?

New fans would be likely to buy some of Metallica's back catalog and be exposed to true metal. From there, they would be in awe, and would seek out other bands like them...Megadeth, for example. From Metallica, they will branch out to more true metal.

How many of you had your first experience with metal from Metallica's classic albums? I'm one of them...after hearing "Master of Puppets" in 1999, I bought Ride the Lightning, Master of Puppets, and ...And Justice For All all at once. They blew me away then and continue to do so.

How many of you got into metal through Metallica? I've heard a number of testamonies from people who bought Load and then got the black album or Justice and saw true metal.

Actually... Metallica were so horrible that they made me hate metal for years. It wasn't until I heard My Dying Bride and realized that metal wasn't all incredibly lame that I actually started to like it. Fuck Metallica and fuck their stupid ass fans.
 
Lycanthrope said:
I like em too, though they can't hold a candle to the old stuff.


Xenophobe, did you miss this part of my post?
Btw, I'm not high, just friggin' nutz! :loco:

:lol:

Nah, I didn't miss it. :p But I don't think they're gonna do anything, for anyone or any scene... it's all for themselves...

:heh:
 
LuminousAether said:
Actually... Metallica were so horrible that they made me hate metal for years. It wasn't until I heard My Dying Bride and realized that metal wasn't all incredibly lame that I actually started to like it. Fuck Metallica and fuck their stupid ass fans.


you like Yakuza... what can be sayed about you??

Say what you want man... But really, you can say whatever you want about Metallica... but don't mess with the fans... its not our to fault to listen what we like.

Yakuza sux big time.