Controversial opinions on metal

H.P. Lovecraft said:
Well, amongst normies, she might be right. But in terms of even beginner metalheads? Metallica takes precedent in renown without question. I also debated her over her thinking Motorhead didn't invent speed metal.
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That's not right amongst anyone . Do you think the average person walking down the street today has heard of Def Leppard? Go take a look at the highest selling artists of all time. Go look at any lsit that has the most popular heavy metal bands of all time. To even entertain that idea is truly mind-boggling.

Metallica arent just the most popular heavy metal band, they're one of the worlds most popular and well known bands period.
 
What's up? I figured that I'd drop in and drop some truth, even though I might regret recovering my account later.

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These are the things that I actually said, which interestingly enough don't seem to match up with what is being claimed in this topic and are also not really controversial at all.

Also, in regards to my BFF TB's claims about me hating Motörhead and that I think that Judas Priest is the main band that influenced thrash, I actually said that both bands, and others, were all very influential on thrash and that Motörhead was far from being its only inspiration.
 
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Oh, and about Def Leppard, they clearly are around as popular as Metallica and released one album that got more radio airplay and sold more copies than any Metallica album. I also told TB that while they're similar in popularity, I don't view Def Leppard as a metal band even though they've released metal music during their career.

Anyway, that was exciting. I'll see you guys in a year or so.
 
Oh so now youre claiming you said they were just similar in popularity? You did not say and ARGUE with me for a full day that they are MORE WELL KNOWN AND POPULAR? To a point where i kept laughing at you and bringing it up for weeks? Please dont lie.

Also i never claimed you said Priest was the main band that influenced thrash, although you clearly implied that numerous times. And i also never said Motorhead was the only band that inspired the subgenre. not once did i say that. So yeah.

Those were two arguments that you got annihilated in. Just face the facts for once
 
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Ill post exact word by word quotes since you dont want me posting screenshots.

July 26th 12:57
ME: "DefLeppard are more popular than Metallica?"
YOU: "yes"

ME: "dont ever forget, defleppard are a more well known band than metallica"
YOU: "They actually are, even though you incorrectly think otherwise"

ME:" Walk down the street and ask the next person you see if they've heard of Def leppard, and then ask them if they've heard of Metallica"
YOU: "Def Leppard is more popular than Metallica"

ME: "Someone should give you an award"
YOU: "I'm not sure why you think Def Leppard isn't more popular than Metallica but it's pretty funny"

Yes, very funny ;)

Oh and btw

July 26th 12:48
ME: defleppard are not metal and they are not more poular then metallica
 
tbh I agree that Motorhead isn't really thrash even though they were an influence. Judas Priest's riffing was closer, e.g. the mid section of Saints in Hell. Motorhead had a lot of the attitude and intensity, but so did Discharge and other hardcore bands also cited as influences.

Death was definitely closer to death metal proper than Possessed. I'd say Slayer was about as much death metal as Possessed.

The Def Leppard thing is retarded though.
 
Which Def Leppard album sold more than Metallica's S/T, btw? Wikipedia is telling me 16x platinum for Metallica, and 10x and 12x for Pyromania and Hysteria, respectively.
 
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Which Def Leppard album sold more than Metallica's S/T, btw? Wikipedia is telling me 16x platinum for Metallica, and 10x and 12x for Pyromania and Hysteria, respectively.
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Maybe you're looking at U.S. sales only, but Hysteria has sold about 25 million units and Metallica has only sold about 21 million units, worldwide of course.
 
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Fair enough, I assumed Metallica was more of an international phenomenon than Def Leppard.

EDIT: Actually, Wikipedia has a citation saying that Metallica claims 31 million copies sold for the S/T internationally, so
 
Def Leppard have been around longer and have more albums and still haven't sold as much as Metallica has. Anyway you would have to be a complete idiot to even entertain the idea of def leppard being more popular than Metallica.

HamburgerBoy said:
tbh I agree that Motorhead isn't really thrash even though they were an influence. Judas Priest's riffing was closer, e.g. the mid section of Saints in Hell. Motorhead had a lot of the attitude and intensity, but so did Discharge and other hardcore bands also cited as influences.
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Wtf, did anyone even say that either or those two bands were thrash?
 
HP Lovecraft said Motorhead created thrash. You said that Omni said that Priest was closer to thrash than Motorhead.
 
Yeah, but i think he went ahead and explained himself.

So Priest is closer to thrash than motorhead? LMFAOOO! Why am i not surprised that the two sickest people to ever post on this message board agree with each other there? You guys are fucking disconnected from reality :lol:

Protest the Hero is technical thrash, amirite? :lol:
 
Judas Priest has riffs that are closer to thrash riffs than Motorhead's riffs.

Scurrilous is a technical thrash album, as are a handful of songs from their first album.
 
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