raising_iron
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Oh, no question the happy stuff is a niche market, but those who love it are every bit as fanatical about it as fans of the darker stuff.
Metal's roots are in darkness, after all. I wonder what the first happy, upbeat metal album would be?
Not quite metal, but a direct precursor and probably the root of all this flowery crap:
Sweet-Desolation Boulevard (a dubious classic!)
...and before anyone gets their daisies and pansies all ruffled, I use "crap" loosely...as I do like a few of the "happy metal" bands, but for me its rather limited to only the top tier bands of this quite "niched" genre and in small doses for, lets face it...heavy metal is supposed to be, uh, heavy, dark, mean, brooding, and brutal!