Radio Metal

[howimetyourmusic]

how do people feel like the evolution of metal as it has become more and more popular. Ever since guitar hero I feel like there are more and more radio friendly metal bands. bands like disturbed, godsmack, avenged sevenfold, etc etc etc. I talk to people who like metal but have never heard of anything beyond these obvious barely-ahead-of-hard-rock types. it is really frustrating. I talked a lot about this in an amon amarth review that is on my blog if you want to check it out:

http://howimetyourmusic.blogspot.com/2011/04/review-amon-amarth-surtur-rising.html

and then on top of that there are all these not-metal groups that are filling the hard rock stations and (in my opinion) stifling the hell out of real, artistic, thoughtful, experimental etc. Bands like Nickelback and more recently Rise Against (Endgame anyone? wrote a review on that one too: http://howimetyourmusic.blogspot.com/2011/03/review-rise-against-endgame.html).

WTF is going on with my beloved metal? anyone else feel like their favorite music is being completely emasculated and socially nullified?

 

[Necroraven]

I thought there's been radio-friendly metal for a long time, not just for the last few years. But anyway, I don't really care, since the UG-metal will always be there, and majority of metal is so extreme, it will never be radio-friendly. My Behexen albums sound just the same as before, no matter how many albums Nickelback sells.

 

[Kreated]

I don't see why harder-to-listen-to bands are necessarily better than disturbed or godsmack. And I don't think that the radio is diluting it- most death metal, black metal, etc bands already have a core audience, and don't try to change their music to sell more records.

 

[The Butt]

Disturbed, Godsmack, and Avenged Sevenfold aren't metal. So don't worry, it's not ruining your genre, you're just looking in the wrong place. Try not listening to the radio.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

^ ... listen to this man!

 

[Badbird]

NickelSmack is not metal.

 

[The Ozzman]

MOAR LIEK NICKELBAD AMIRITE? (although I like a few songs from The State)

If I listen to the radio, it's Sirius/XM in a colleague's car on the way to lunch and it's either Boneyard or Liquid Metal or it's news radio on the way to work or something