"Underground" is a reference to availability. What's so hard to understand about this?
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"Underground" is a reference to availability. What's so hard to understand about this?
LightningLixxx
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fizz6207
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Exactly. tbh i can find a larger selection of ulver CDs than I can morbid angel CDs at my local JBHIFI store. I had to go searching around to find Blessed are the Sick.
Everyones missing the point of the thread, it was said in the opening post to list bands which get regular radio hits. Bands which are "overplayed" on the mainstream radio channels I think was the point. No one can tell me Morbid Angel, Slayer, or even Tool is overplayed on radio stations like Triple M (one of the biggest mainstream rock channels in sydney).
LightningLixxx
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Like all UM threads, this one has been fucked from the start because none of us can agree on a definition that is a fundamental foundation for the discussion.
Morbid Angel isn't mainstream period.
Morbid Angel isn't mainstream period.
JoeVice
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that depends on how accessible morbid angel albums are for you, where you live, whether or not you have access to the internet, your interests, and the links they provide you with, etc. but most of all, your definition of mainstream.
john who lives in bumb-fuck egypt and only listens to modern country, which is the only radio station in bumb-fuck egypt, has no concept of mainstream.
sethon, his next door neighbor, has a grandmother in charleston who sends him linkin park's music. to sethon, linkin park is underground. but, sethon has no concept of the underground/mainstream spectrum. if only sethon knew what a blind idiot he is.
LightningLixxx
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I don't really think any death metal band can be considered mainstream. The genre just doesn't appeal to a broad enough spectrum of people as does hip-hop, pop, rap, electronic, rock, etc.
So if Morbid Angel is mainstream, would you call a highly popular black metal band (Darkthrone, Immortal, Burzum, take your pick) mainstream? Because, iirc, that would make that band cease to be put in the black metal genre because the whole point of black metal is to be unlistenable, according to what "tr00" black metalheads tell me.
Either way, this discussion is way too meaningless to intrigue me so I'm done with this. It's becoming another fucking black metal thread and I think we all know how those go.
So if Morbid Angel is mainstream, would you call a highly popular black metal band (Darkthrone, Immortal, Burzum, take your pick) mainstream? Because, iirc, that would make that band cease to be put in the black metal genre because the whole point of black metal is to be unlistenable, according to what "tr00" black metalheads tell me.
Either way, this discussion is way too meaningless to intrigue me so I'm done with this. It's becoming another fucking black metal thread and I think we all know how those go.
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Meh, not really, it's a worthwhile discussion- can't talk about good mainstream bands without defining what a mainstream band is, right?
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Kenneth R.
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The FYE in my area has a large inventory of stuff I wouldn't consider being remotely close to "mainstream"...
Circuit City and Best Buy would be a better example but even they carry stuff like Gorjira that I wouldn't consider to be mainstream...
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