I was just looking back and thinking and am I the only one who has come to the conclusion that this "sturgiscore" aka christian metalcore/post-hardcore/metalcore/electronicore/crabcore/whatevs only has a few years to live until something else becomes the new hot shit? I mean, Joey will always be hot shit and adapt, but I'm talking about the bands itself that will change.
Some say that eighties metal has died too, but Mötley Crüe, Metallica and other big bands are still alive and kicking, but my point is the new shit that everybody and their cousin wants to do and piggy back to "become rich and famous", that they most likely never will. If we look at the retrospect of earlier metal trends:
Numetal: 1994-2006 (12 years), golden years 1997-2002 (5 years)
Where numetal came from was actually not from 1994, but before that. It basically started out when rappers started doing collaborations with rock and metal acts. Run DMC & Aerosmith (1986) was one of the first ones to do this, then pre-numetal bands that had similar elements came from funkmetal such as Faith No More (We Care A Lot 1985, Epic 1989), Red Hot Chili Peppers (Give It Away, 1991) and Rage Against The Machine that already was rap metal (1992 debut album), but not numetal. Tom Morello tuned to standard tuning, when the pinnacle of numetal guitar sound was down tuned guitars.
Then the first real pioneer bands came in 1993-1994 from the California metal scene (Korn, Deftones) and they basically played death metal riffs with 7 string guitars (listen to Korn - Blind (1994) and Fear Factory - Scapegoat (1992) and you might hear a similarity) combined with emotional "daddy issue" lyrics. At some point the rapping became more involved with numetal with big acts like Limp Bizkit (1994-), Slipknot (1995-) and Linkin Park (1996-), while other "more real metal" acts such as Sepultura, Machine Head and Fear Factory tried to stay afloat on the metaltrends and also dwell on the numetal scene in the 1996-2001 era until they all finally realized in the ~2002 era that numetal kinda sucks and returned to do what they really know how to do. Also after 2004 there was not a single "new" big name in numetal and it pretty much had died around that time.
I mean, if you don't believe me, then tell me what was the last numetal band that you know that was successful?
Metalcore/Melodeath/New Wave of American Heavy Metal: 1998-201x (13 years so far), golden years 2002-2008 (6 years)
Again the roots go way beyond 1998, since At The Gates started already in 1990, but I would still say it started at the high time of numetal scene, when the "more metal" guys thought it was shite and wanted to do some "real metal". For example Papa Roach and Chimaira started as numetal band (1998), but on the second albums (2002) they already started to do their own thing, Chimaira going for the New Wave of American Heavy Metal thing and Papa Roach going for the more rock orientated approach.
That 2002 was also when the melodic death metal / metalcore scene became big in the mainstream with bands like Killswitch Engage, Trivium and In Flames, even tho In Flames, Soilwork, Dark Tranquillity, At The Gates, Arch Enemy and other guys had that big Gothenburg metalscene thing in Sweden already in the early 1990's which basically was the same thing, except the metalcore thing came from american death metal + hardcore punk thing with breakdowns and stuff, when melodeath came from melodic metal + swedish death metal scene.
With exclusion of the big names, it's also pretty much dying out, even tho the bands playing that stuff don't want to believe it.
Then if we compare to the current crabcore trend: 2003-201x (8 years so far), golden years 2008-201x (3 years, but 5-6 years would be ~2013-2014)
Since this thing is basically just a subgenre of metalcore, some might say it has even less lifespan than I think. Some might also say it all started to become popular with The Devil Wears Prada's 2005 demo and Attack Attack's "Stick Stickly" (2008) was pretty much around the time that was the last straw where the subsequent use of Pod + Steven Slate Drums + autotuned singing + synth stuff + subdrops + running man and other "cool" dancemoves on metal what became known as "sturgiscore" on the Sneap forum (and crabcore on the mainstream), which almost became a taboo and a curseword on the Sneap forum. It also was one of the reason why this forum was born as it almost always caused massive flaming on the individuals asking for the "golden Sturgis tone".
So, in that retrospect, what band(s) or genres do you think will be the next big thing? And don't say djent, Meshuggah already started it in the mid 1990's and Bulb/Periphery brought it to US mainstream knowledge about 10 years later, so it will most likely die soon too. Any guesses, bands or music?
Some say that eighties metal has died too, but Mötley Crüe, Metallica and other big bands are still alive and kicking, but my point is the new shit that everybody and their cousin wants to do and piggy back to "become rich and famous", that they most likely never will. If we look at the retrospect of earlier metal trends:
Numetal: 1994-2006 (12 years), golden years 1997-2002 (5 years)
Where numetal came from was actually not from 1994, but before that. It basically started out when rappers started doing collaborations with rock and metal acts. Run DMC & Aerosmith (1986) was one of the first ones to do this, then pre-numetal bands that had similar elements came from funkmetal such as Faith No More (We Care A Lot 1985, Epic 1989), Red Hot Chili Peppers (Give It Away, 1991) and Rage Against The Machine that already was rap metal (1992 debut album), but not numetal. Tom Morello tuned to standard tuning, when the pinnacle of numetal guitar sound was down tuned guitars.
Then the first real pioneer bands came in 1993-1994 from the California metal scene (Korn, Deftones) and they basically played death metal riffs with 7 string guitars (listen to Korn - Blind (1994) and Fear Factory - Scapegoat (1992) and you might hear a similarity) combined with emotional "daddy issue" lyrics. At some point the rapping became more involved with numetal with big acts like Limp Bizkit (1994-), Slipknot (1995-) and Linkin Park (1996-), while other "more real metal" acts such as Sepultura, Machine Head and Fear Factory tried to stay afloat on the metaltrends and also dwell on the numetal scene in the 1996-2001 era until they all finally realized in the ~2002 era that numetal kinda sucks and returned to do what they really know how to do. Also after 2004 there was not a single "new" big name in numetal and it pretty much had died around that time.
I mean, if you don't believe me, then tell me what was the last numetal band that you know that was successful?
Metalcore/Melodeath/New Wave of American Heavy Metal: 1998-201x (13 years so far), golden years 2002-2008 (6 years)
Again the roots go way beyond 1998, since At The Gates started already in 1990, but I would still say it started at the high time of numetal scene, when the "more metal" guys thought it was shite and wanted to do some "real metal". For example Papa Roach and Chimaira started as numetal band (1998), but on the second albums (2002) they already started to do their own thing, Chimaira going for the New Wave of American Heavy Metal thing and Papa Roach going for the more rock orientated approach.
That 2002 was also when the melodic death metal / metalcore scene became big in the mainstream with bands like Killswitch Engage, Trivium and In Flames, even tho In Flames, Soilwork, Dark Tranquillity, At The Gates, Arch Enemy and other guys had that big Gothenburg metalscene thing in Sweden already in the early 1990's which basically was the same thing, except the metalcore thing came from american death metal + hardcore punk thing with breakdowns and stuff, when melodeath came from melodic metal + swedish death metal scene.
With exclusion of the big names, it's also pretty much dying out, even tho the bands playing that stuff don't want to believe it.
Then if we compare to the current crabcore trend: 2003-201x (8 years so far), golden years 2008-201x (3 years, but 5-6 years would be ~2013-2014)
Since this thing is basically just a subgenre of metalcore, some might say it has even less lifespan than I think. Some might also say it all started to become popular with The Devil Wears Prada's 2005 demo and Attack Attack's "Stick Stickly" (2008) was pretty much around the time that was the last straw where the subsequent use of Pod + Steven Slate Drums + autotuned singing + synth stuff + subdrops + running man and other "cool" dancemoves on metal what became known as "sturgiscore" on the Sneap forum (and crabcore on the mainstream), which almost became a taboo and a curseword on the Sneap forum. It also was one of the reason why this forum was born as it almost always caused massive flaming on the individuals asking for the "golden Sturgis tone".
So, in that retrospect, what band(s) or genres do you think will be the next big thing? And don't say djent, Meshuggah already started it in the mid 1990's and Bulb/Periphery brought it to US mainstream knowledge about 10 years later, so it will most likely die soon too. Any guesses, bands or music?
