Okay, so basically let's summarize what happened in metal in the last 10 years. Major events, trends, deaths, landmark albums, etc.
I'll get the ball rolling...
The fall of nu metal. Thank god that one is gone...
The rise of deathcore. How long will it last?
The proliferation of bedroom black metal. I see this as one of the most damaging trends of the last decade, as this stuff is legitimately true metal and is harder to identify and isolate and ignore. Unfortunately, this also extends into other genres as well. The ready availability of shitty recording equipment has resulted in a lot of half-baked releases across the board. This is unambiguously negative, and unfortunately I'd say partial responsibility goes to metal's move onto the internet.
Slam death really expanding into a genre. This one is questionable, and I will defer to the opinions of others with greater knowledge, but this decade has definitely seen a major expansion in slam and brutal death.
The onslaught of Jollyfolk and keyboard-based melodic death metal. Although these are two different styles, they have more or less the same fan base and are equally horrid and gay, so I thought I'd clump them together.
The creation of melodic alternative metal. This is my own term, but if you guys use it (and you should) it can become a legitimate genre. Anyhow, I'm referring to the recent works of Soilwork and In Flames and such. Stuff that no longer can be called melodic death metal, since all the death metal is completely gone, doesn't fit into the metalcore genre however much the haters would like to pretend it does, and can't be called plain old melodic metal or melodic extreme metal because both of those refer to other things. I think it's a good term, and I also like the subgenre. But whatever.
The continued failure of Motorhead to realize they're old and stop rocking so fucking hard.
Major events:
I really can't think of any. I guess the release of Varg might count.
Deaths:
Help me out with this.
Dimebag Darrel
Chuck Schuldiner
Quorthon
Landmark albums:
I guess this will be a lot easier in 20 years. Anyhow, can't think of any right now.
I'll get the ball rolling...
The fall of nu metal. Thank god that one is gone...
The rise of deathcore. How long will it last?
The proliferation of bedroom black metal. I see this as one of the most damaging trends of the last decade, as this stuff is legitimately true metal and is harder to identify and isolate and ignore. Unfortunately, this also extends into other genres as well. The ready availability of shitty recording equipment has resulted in a lot of half-baked releases across the board. This is unambiguously negative, and unfortunately I'd say partial responsibility goes to metal's move onto the internet.
Slam death really expanding into a genre. This one is questionable, and I will defer to the opinions of others with greater knowledge, but this decade has definitely seen a major expansion in slam and brutal death.
The onslaught of Jollyfolk and keyboard-based melodic death metal. Although these are two different styles, they have more or less the same fan base and are equally horrid and gay, so I thought I'd clump them together.
The creation of melodic alternative metal. This is my own term, but if you guys use it (and you should) it can become a legitimate genre. Anyhow, I'm referring to the recent works of Soilwork and In Flames and such. Stuff that no longer can be called melodic death metal, since all the death metal is completely gone, doesn't fit into the metalcore genre however much the haters would like to pretend it does, and can't be called plain old melodic metal or melodic extreme metal because both of those refer to other things. I think it's a good term, and I also like the subgenre. But whatever.
The continued failure of Motorhead to realize they're old and stop rocking so fucking hard.
Major events:
I really can't think of any. I guess the release of Varg might count.
Deaths:
Help me out with this.
Dimebag Darrel
Chuck Schuldiner
Quorthon
Landmark albums:
I guess this will be a lot easier in 20 years. Anyhow, can't think of any right now.
