- Jul 27, 2006
- 341
- 9
- 18
I am curious to know what it was 'like' to be into (real) underground metal back in those days. What I mean is this... how did you attain knowledge of the bands/albums compared to how most people do today? In those years, did you ever form an understanding of metal's different genres and how they all came to be? Also, were you ever exposed to the extreme metal genres (death metal, black metal, doom metal) around that time, and if so, what was your initial reaction to it (and did you ever accept such genres along with your other music tastes at that time)? (The main reason I want to know especially about the question regarding extreme metal is because I know for a fact, tons of people back then already knew about/were into famous bands such as Metallica, Pantera, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, etc.). And the questions are aimed more towards those who were into metal during like the early/mid 90's... not so much those who got into metal duing for example, 1999.
From my point of view, (and maybe this is going to sound ignorant to some of you) it just seems real metal (and extreme metal, in general) was much more 'elusive' in those days (in other words, it seems less people were unaware of it and/or didn't understand it). I noticed metal is so much popular nowadays post-2000 due to a number of factors (alot of them internet-related) such as the increasing tedency of downloading, the rise of metalcore in popularity, the advent of sites such as Myspace being used as mediums for advertising bands music, the awareness and usage of metal-archives.com and message boards such as this one (i heard BNRmetal.com was around during the 90's and was the "metal-archives" of back then?), increased music-related socialization (e.g. 'scene'/scenester bullshit, street teams, anyone?) etc.,etc. Of course I know the internet was around back then, but in this day and age, it is playing a much bigger role for getting people into metal (actually i think i will create a separate thread about that soon).
From my point of view, (and maybe this is going to sound ignorant to some of you) it just seems real metal (and extreme metal, in general) was much more 'elusive' in those days (in other words, it seems less people were unaware of it and/or didn't understand it). I noticed metal is so much popular nowadays post-2000 due to a number of factors (alot of them internet-related) such as the increasing tedency of downloading, the rise of metalcore in popularity, the advent of sites such as Myspace being used as mediums for advertising bands music, the awareness and usage of metal-archives.com and message boards such as this one (i heard BNRmetal.com was around during the 90's and was the "metal-archives" of back then?), increased music-related socialization (e.g. 'scene'/scenester bullshit, street teams, anyone?) etc.,etc. Of course I know the internet was around back then, but in this day and age, it is playing a much bigger role for getting people into metal (actually i think i will create a separate thread about that soon).