Everyday more and more people here will post in some thread or another that they hate nu-metal. That they would like to Butcher Slipknot, that they despise nu-metal fans etc. etc. etc.
And while these people go on and on, telling anyone who will listen how thye hate these bands - I sit back and sigh.
If you want any examples read the Iowa review, or the Bands you just HATE thread, or countless others that are littered around the forums here. No doubt you will find people telling you how Korn, Linkin Park, SLipknot (insert generic nu-metal band name here) are not metal. I wonder why this is when SLipknot clearly are metal. They have simplistic riffs, embarassing vocals and poor all-round musicianship. Yet they are still metal. If you listen to there music and compare it to any other metal band you will find that they are. Now what do you suppose makes people hate them so much and claim they arent etal? After all how many grindcore bands have shitty lyrics and weak riffs? Does every metal band have better drumming than Slipknot's? I think you'll they are not the worst.
Now what does Slipknot do that makes them not metal in the mids of so many? The answer is simple. Commercial success. How many shitty metal bands worse than Slipknot recieve as much hatred as Slipknot? Answer - None.
Yasee, metal fans can be very elitist. They don't like mu-metal because it sells well. They see that better bands sell so much less. They see that Slipknot get undeserved recognition and are angry. They are angry that people who don't like metal like Slipknot. They want metal to remain the elitist little world that it used to be. They don't want all the world to like it because it is their special thing that makes them better and different. To them, Slipknot are the invaders who destroy their sense of elitism superiority. Slipknot bring new people to the genre and they don't want it because they think the newbies are not good enough for metal. Slipknot are claimed to not be metal because the people that say this don't regard them as metal. They think metal is their own special private thing that makes them better and they don't like intruders. However bad the music is its the commercial success that annoys these people more. Im not saying that I like any of the nu-metal bands I've heard but I don't dismiss them because of their success. But because an album gets to no.1 does that make it bad? No, it just makes it popular.
However nu-metal is metal, it is a form of metal just like death-metal or black-metal or goth-metal or whatever. Not a particularily good genre but a genre of metal nonetheless.
Let's stop the stupidity, realise that people have different tastes and commercial success doesn't makes music bad. And to all those saying Slipknot aren't metal then you must think Pantera aren't metal either since they got to no.1.
And while these people go on and on, telling anyone who will listen how thye hate these bands - I sit back and sigh.
If you want any examples read the Iowa review, or the Bands you just HATE thread, or countless others that are littered around the forums here. No doubt you will find people telling you how Korn, Linkin Park, SLipknot (insert generic nu-metal band name here) are not metal. I wonder why this is when SLipknot clearly are metal. They have simplistic riffs, embarassing vocals and poor all-round musicianship. Yet they are still metal. If you listen to there music and compare it to any other metal band you will find that they are. Now what do you suppose makes people hate them so much and claim they arent etal? After all how many grindcore bands have shitty lyrics and weak riffs? Does every metal band have better drumming than Slipknot's? I think you'll they are not the worst.
Now what does Slipknot do that makes them not metal in the mids of so many? The answer is simple. Commercial success. How many shitty metal bands worse than Slipknot recieve as much hatred as Slipknot? Answer - None.
Yasee, metal fans can be very elitist. They don't like mu-metal because it sells well. They see that better bands sell so much less. They see that Slipknot get undeserved recognition and are angry. They are angry that people who don't like metal like Slipknot. They want metal to remain the elitist little world that it used to be. They don't want all the world to like it because it is their special thing that makes them better and different. To them, Slipknot are the invaders who destroy their sense of elitism superiority. Slipknot bring new people to the genre and they don't want it because they think the newbies are not good enough for metal. Slipknot are claimed to not be metal because the people that say this don't regard them as metal. They think metal is their own special private thing that makes them better and they don't like intruders. However bad the music is its the commercial success that annoys these people more. Im not saying that I like any of the nu-metal bands I've heard but I don't dismiss them because of their success. But because an album gets to no.1 does that make it bad? No, it just makes it popular.
However nu-metal is metal, it is a form of metal just like death-metal or black-metal or goth-metal or whatever. Not a particularily good genre but a genre of metal nonetheless.
Let's stop the stupidity, realise that people have different tastes and commercial success doesn't makes music bad. And to all those saying Slipknot aren't metal then you must think Pantera aren't metal either since they got to no.1.
dam this sellout thing is older than Metallica itself
