I think everyone has come to the conclusion that while MIDI/digital stuff is cool and all, nothing beats the sound of a real guitar/drum/orchestra. I don't think any new instruments will be invented. After all, what's the last instrument that was invented that's actually caught on? The electric guitar, which is really just the logical evolution of the acoustic guitar, which is hundreds of years old (The Theramin is used by like three bands, doesn't count). And distorted guitars have been around for over 40 years. Keyboards don't count as a new instrument as they're actually just a compilation of old instruments.
The future of metal
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Badbird
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It would be very sad if metal in the future is all programming by MIDI/digital stuff amd no longer real guitar/drum/bass/orchestra.
Well I hope it doesn't come that way in the future.
cookiecutter
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Maybe people who like power metal think it's really easy to listen to but to my ears, and to many others I would imagine, it sounds ridiculous and over the top. It's so cheesy. I really don't think it's just lack of exposure that's preventing it from hitting the mainstream.
Badbird
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It true that most people that don't like power metal think it too cheesy and over the top but not all power metal is that way.That like saying all death metal is gore or all black metal is satan or all rap is girls,money and being gangsta.It not the easyiest genere to get into but if I had to played metal around a pop music listerner I think power metal would be the best for them.I don't think a pop music listerner would like death metal that much unless he or she is openminded.Power Metal might be chessy but so can other music geners.
Einherjar86
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Lots of power metal bands are gravitating towards a more mainstream lyrical approach though. Look at the recent Nightwish (lots of Nightwish, actually), recent Kamelot, and the recent Avantasia release, with horrible tracks like "Carry Me Over."
The problem with this is, the more power metal moves towards a mainstream sound, the more it just sounds like generic shit (some tracks on the newest Avantasia record sounded like Bon Jovi). And I'm very nervous that Nightwish, sooner or later, is just going to sound like Evanescence.
I definitely think some of the more popular power metal bands are trying to bridge the gap, but I don't think they'll succeed.
Badbird
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That been happen lately with popular power metal bands which led to me thinking that power metal will get more mainstream and getting even more shit from the metalheads and sonner something like Stratovarius will be no different from the shitty corporate rock bands like Hinder.I mean Edguy from the last two albums don't sound that different from Def Leppard so power metal getting closer to the mainstream
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Well Helloween tried to be mainstream rock but it didn't make them a huge successful rock band so they went back to being metal.
I suspect this will happen with other said bands. Popular rock doesn't actually sound like watered down power metal these days, it sounds like it's derived from the 90s alternative rock.
I suspect this will happen with other said bands. Popular rock doesn't actually sound like watered down power metal these days, it sounds like it's derived from the 90s alternative rock.
Badbird
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Most popular rock does sound like it derived from the 90s alt rock music but it also been having classic rock influence. I still see a chance that Power Metal will get popular like the 80s Glam Metal and late 90s Nu Metal.
Generalizing much? Some power metal definitely sounds over the top, but there's plenty that's just straightforward and awesome, especially with USPM. *Insert obligatory comment about how slam is also ridiculous and over the top*
RedFox742
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But the people who don't care for power metal because it's too over-the-top and cheesy tend to come from the death/black-metal-fan side of the spectrum, don't you think? Which doesn't exactly represent the "mainstream".
As for power-metal bands watering themselves down ... it's absolutely infuriating me. Sonata's doing it; Edguy's doing it; Freedom Call did it. Falconer did it, but thankfully realized their mistake. At some point, they're not part of the genre any more, which I'm sure just tickles them pink, because apparently nobody actually wants to be called "power metal".
As for power-metal bands watering themselves down ... it's absolutely infuriating me. Sonata's doing it; Edguy's doing it; Freedom Call did it. Falconer did it, but thankfully realized their mistake. At some point, they're not part of the genre any more, which I'm sure just tickles them pink, because apparently nobody actually wants to be called "power metal".
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Pop is only cheesy if it's emotionally fake or overly pretentious (hence power metal typically being cheesy). There's plenty of fantastic pop out there.
RedFox742
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You call it "pretension", I call it "grandiosity". It's not like most of us take all the posturing seriously, any more than I'd take a fantasy novel seriously. It's just escapist, and occasionally poignant (Kamelot's "Forever"; Sonata's "Cage") which is what I look for in music!
metal_wrath
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IMO Power metal is unpopular in the mainstream due to it's own merits and not because of bad marketing.
TBH I would not be celebrating if Power metal become commercially successful.
TBH I would not be celebrating if Power metal become commercially successful.
Badbird
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I would hope that it doesn't get popular because that means more power metal bands watered down for the mainstream and not enough good music.I bet nu metal will stared becoming a nostalgia circuit as of right now with all the crappy bands from that time are reuniting and the more years to come it will become like what hair metal is right now with festivels and tours.
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RedFox742
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So that's why black and death metal bands don't have mainstream popularity too, and the Jonas Brothers do? "Their own merits"?
Come now. Popularity is not a measure of merit.
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