Slammed
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It really wasn't about the fans wanting anything. It's just who the fans liked better and therefore sold more albums than the rest.
Let's face it we've got the Bay Area scene, the East Coast scene, the British scene, the Brazillian scene, the Teutonic scene and probably a heap of other local scenes that don't attract the same attention, all with the Big 4 sitting at the top. All those top 5 scenes would have rivalled the each other for selling albums and selling tickets and each of them was bigger locally than the others were, but the one thing they had in common was uniting like minded people. Everyone wants to be part of a group. Everyone wants to feel like they belong and everyone wants their favourite band at the top. Even the NWOBHM was a term coined just to group a bunch of top tier British metal bands together in a group so that fans had something to cling to. Some names have survived better than others over the years but they are only categories that really don't mean much.