Personally, from AYDY I love Are you dead yet. Not my fave songs by them at all, Infact those slots are filled by Downfall and Bed of Razors, but regardless I hardly see them as selling out. I mean shit if someone wants to get the cash for all the hard work they've done then by all means fuck do it. Only one chance its either stay mediocre and eventually fade away to be forgotten or blow up and atleast take a few things down with you.
Really, I mean do people honestly remember bands like Roxy or Joy Division? They were amazing bands in their own respects, but no one remembers them. And as long as CoB can find a way to solidify their mark on the music industry then by all means let them do it. Metal appeals to a select crowd just as any other genre of music. And I hardly see CoB becoming the next AX7. And ?I'm not knocking AX7 either because I saw them live at Ozzfest this year and honestly they were the better of many of the bands. I really only went to see Dragonforce - Atreyu - Unearth - BLS- and AX7. Sadly Disturbed and Syndrome of the Down were the big shows which was like dieing and ending up in hell. God I fucking hate those two bands.