The what's going on in Thrash thread

[Slammed]

Geez I feel sorry for metal. It's a hard slog when apparently this is the top 15 selling "Metal" records for this year.

1. Metallica – Hardwired… to Self Destruct (136,000 sold)
2. Bon Jovi –This House is Not for Sale (131,000 sold)
3. Breaking Benjamin – Ember (117,000 sold)
4. Greta Van Fleet – From the Fires (98,000 sold)
5. A Perfect Circle – Eat the Elephant (94,000 sold)
6. Five Finger Death Punch – A Decade of Destruction (87,300 sold)
7. Metallica – Metallica (87,000 sold)
8. Judas Priest –Firepower (84,000 sold)
9. Five Finger Death Punch – And Justice For None (82,500 sold)
10. Shinedown – Attention Attention (80,500 sold)
11. Ghost – Prequelle (62,000 sold)
12. Godsmack – When Legends Rise (60,000 sold)
13. Kid Rock –Sweet Southern Sugar (59,500 sold)
14. Metallica – Master of Puppets (58,500 sold)
15. Linkin Park – Hybrid Theory (49,000)

Now I will admit to having 5 of those albums in this household however all but Priest was bought last year not this year.
Metallica are obviously riding high off their tour but selling 87,000 copies of a 25(ish) yr old album and 58,000 of an album even older are amazing figures. However even at 136,000 for Hardwired it's still only number 22 on the overall top sellers list for this year.

 

[redfly]

Man, fuck what ever poser made that list up

 

[Slammed]

Yeah it's interesting what is classed as metal these days.

I don't listen to them but I'd probably give them a chance and call bands like Five Finger Death Punch, Ghost, A Perfect Circle and even at a stretch Godsmack metal. But Bon Jovi, Breaking Benjamin, Kid Rock and Linkin Park is really pushing the term metal.

Considering that Metallica still only came in at 22 with 136,000 metal is really low on the list anyway. Apparently the soundtrack to Hugh Jackman's movie is about the only album to sell more than a million this year so far.

 

[Neptune]

Man, fuck what ever poser made that list up

We unfortunately are forever doomed to suffer the masses!

 

[redfly]

Fuckin ridiculous man, the posers are trying to write OUR history

 

[Slammed]

It's because there is too much variety in metal, too many different albums. All those pop albums are just the same album released under a new name and a new album sleeve every other.

 

[redfly]

Too much variety...especially when you don't know what metal is

 

[Slammed]

As much as shitting on pop music is fun I think it's a demographic thing too. Pop music sells in massive amounts because the people buying it are sheep. Look at all those talent shows (X Factor etc), there is a reason the shit produced on those shows sells in massive numbers. If they replaced each one of those pop talent shows with a metal talent show metal would be topping all the charts and metal would have all the sheep.

 

[redfly]

They have also been force fed the shit and nothing else for about 20 years. Gotta keep the people stupid!

 

[Slammed]

Yeah sadly it's the truth. It doesn't matter what it is these days once the force feeding of shit starts nothing is sacred and there will always be people ready to be force fed. Be it music, gender pay gaps, sexual harassment, racism or whatever we are force fed the shit certain groups want us to believe and there is always a portion of the public ready to believe it. Then there is a portion of those who want to take it to the nth degree and scream it from the roof tops and tell the rest of us we are wrong for thinking it.

Gotta rebel for the cause!!

Actually I think I'll just give up and let the nut jobs do whatever they want.

 

[redfly]

Hahaha true enough

 

[Slammed]

Having said that I would still like to see a Metal Idol or the like just to see how even metal could be programmed into the mainstream psyche.

 

[redfly]

Some game shows too. Wheel Of Metal?...The Price Is Metal. Oh oh! Family Metal!

 

[Slammed]

We asked 100 metal heads who is the best metal guitarist in the world
Here's our top 10,000 answers!

 

[redfly]

 

[Slammed]

http://www.metalinjection.net/lates...e-corbitt-on-his-cancer-treatment-its-working

Good to see some are having luck with their cancer treatment. It's a hell of a thing for a vocalist to come back from, will be interesting to see if he can come back.

 

[Slammed]

http://bravewords.com/news/striker-to-release-new-album-this-fall-european-summer-shows-announced

Despite the "bigger and better than anything we've done" comment I'm looking forward to seeing what these guys produce for their 6th effort.

 

[redfly]

Well shit, that is good news. Why can't it work for everyone. Stupid cancer.

 

[redfly]

http://bravewords.com/news/striker-to-release-new-album-this-fall-european-summer-shows-announced

Despite the "bigger and better than anything we've done" comment I'm looking forward to seeing what these guys produce for their 6th effort.

Hmmm, what's your favorite song?

 

[Slammed]

Well shit, that is good news. Why can't it work for everyone. Stupid cancer.

I agree, it would be nice. It was good to hear when Bruce beat his cancer and even better to hear him come back and continue singing. This guy's is a different cancer but I can't help wondering if maybe his way of singing makes it harder for him to come back than Bruce.