- Oct 9, 2005
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The purpose of this thread is to discuss about situations in metal bands that can be called a sellout. I talked about it with my friends and majority of them said that many announcements can considered as sellout.
Situation #1: A big part of metal bands says something like "our new album will be more brutal than our any earlier work" - is this a good promotion or a total sellout?
Situation #2: Let's say that Dimmu Borgir asked Hellhammer to play with them because they wanted to check how the band sounds with him, and they wanted to check if for example Mayhem fans want to try In Sorte Diaboli album. In other words a band recruits a world famous musician - sellout or not sellout?
Situation #3: A band announces that they album will be a bit different, some kind of experiment to create a new climate in the new album - sellout?
Situation #4:A band announces that they leave Unmatched Brutality Records and signs with Nuclear Blast Records - sellout or not?
Ofcourse there could be more examples but I can't come up with any other right now.
Do you agree that the best way for a band to avoid the sellout opinions is to just announce the date of new album releasement, stay silent, just play concerts on tours and not change line up unless it is necessary.
Real life example:
At the beginning of Metallica`s global carrier the men played thrash metal. It was their main piece of music although they could not play that. Hammett said that they knew that back in the years the crowd would simply not buy it so they changed the style for over 10 years. So basically as they succeeded they started playing heavier metal by the years. Well,at least if we count out the stupid ballads they made! So basically what Kirk Hammett said was that the St.Anger was actually the first real Metallica album cuz it was the earliest type of music they started playing for a living.Ofcourse, they could create that since they have been a success through the nineties. Wouldn`t make a big difference for them if St.Anger was a TOTAL bummer anyway. The nineties Metallica wasn`t the real one until St.Anger, making some music for money IMO.
Situation #1: A big part of metal bands says something like "our new album will be more brutal than our any earlier work" - is this a good promotion or a total sellout?
Situation #2: Let's say that Dimmu Borgir asked Hellhammer to play with them because they wanted to check how the band sounds with him, and they wanted to check if for example Mayhem fans want to try In Sorte Diaboli album. In other words a band recruits a world famous musician - sellout or not sellout?
Situation #3: A band announces that they album will be a bit different, some kind of experiment to create a new climate in the new album - sellout?
Situation #4:A band announces that they leave Unmatched Brutality Records and signs with Nuclear Blast Records - sellout or not?
Ofcourse there could be more examples but I can't come up with any other right now.
Do you agree that the best way for a band to avoid the sellout opinions is to just announce the date of new album releasement, stay silent, just play concerts on tours and not change line up unless it is necessary.
Real life example:
At the beginning of Metallica`s global carrier the men played thrash metal. It was their main piece of music although they could not play that. Hammett said that they knew that back in the years the crowd would simply not buy it so they changed the style for over 10 years. So basically as they succeeded they started playing heavier metal by the years. Well,at least if we count out the stupid ballads they made! So basically what Kirk Hammett said was that the St.Anger was actually the first real Metallica album cuz it was the earliest type of music they started playing for a living.Ofcourse, they could create that since they have been a success through the nineties. Wouldn`t make a big difference for them if St.Anger was a TOTAL bummer anyway. The nineties Metallica wasn`t the real one until St.Anger, making some music for money IMO.