The Most Commercial Metal You Are Willing To Tolerate?

[Master_Yoda77]

I throw down fucking HARD to Linkin Park. Put on fucking Points of Authority and I'm going to start breaking stuff.

 

[no country for old wainds]

fwiw I hated nu metal as a kid.

same. 'cept SOAD if they count, but i liked TOXICITY mostly back then - my adulthood is where i realised the s/t is superior. i fucking hated korn back then haha, i was most into pre-AMERICANA the offspring and nirvana.

plenty of alt- rock/metal is better than a lot of the metal praised by mainstream publications nowadays, and it has nothing to do with nostalgia.

 

[0Marty]

plenty of alt- rock/metal is better than a lot of the metal praised by mainstream publications nowadays, and it has nothing to do with nostalgia.

I second this. Lot of current popular metal is on the level of bad hip-hop or pop music songwriting wise.

I personally came from punk, not nu-metal. I remember my first big punk show, I loved it. Later I realized I was listening to trash. Literally, one of the local bands I liked could be translated as trash(Odpad). I do listen to some punk nowadays, partly due to nostalgia, but I also realized that punk can be interesting as long as the band put some thought into writing instead of punching three chords as fast as they could.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

I still listen to a lot of alt/grunge from the 90's ... Nirvana, Soundgarden, AiC, Pearl Jam, STP. I even have a few of their albums on cassette

I also have Hybrid Theory and Toxicity on CD, both of which i somewhat enjoy.

 

[arg]

 

[viewerfromnihil]

Aug wins.

 

[arg]

yea i kinda like edm-infused modern shit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brLwlB8j0JQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDgbYF48UPw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVdBBOpSoN4

 

[Evil Dead]

Disturbed's final two albums were pretty surprisingly good. Also liked Wrath by LoG to a point. Volbeat is pretty tolerable radio metal...

That is about the going rate for tolerable metal nowadays. They get a fuck ton of airplay down here in Florida and its a good thing.

 

[The Ozzman]

Mudvayne
Seether (metal at points)
Volbeat is awesome
Disturbed

 

[viewerfromnihil]

yea i kinda like edm-infused modern shit

Baby Metal reminded me of the turn Semargl made a couple of years back:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNypkbtv-ig

 

[Oblivious Maximus]

Volbeat are indeed awesome although I have to say aside from a few songs I couldn't get into the last album.

 

[Mort Divine]

and you guys criticize me for listening to fucking kpop...

 

[arg]

Baby Metal reminded me of the turn Semargl made a couple of years back:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNypkbtv-ig

whoa hey i like this

and fuck me i need to haul ass to ukraine

 

[SentinelSlain]

some hair metal from the 80s. nu metal is pretty much death to me

 

[The Ozzman]

and you guys criticize me for listening to fucking kpop...

Because kpop isn't good...

 

[Mort Divine]

Because kpop isn't good...

neither is any of the shit listed in here

 

[arg]

kpop is good

 

[Serjeant Grumbles]

neither is any of the shit listed in here

The difference is that stuff like Slipknot or KoRn won't induce a diabetic coma.

 

[no country for old wainds]

i like k-pop. it's better than w-pop.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

White-pop?