What is the cruelest question to ask a band?

Which of these is going to be hardest for bands to answer?

  • In five words or less, how would you describe your band’s style/(sub)genre?

    Votes: 1 7.7%
  • What does your band offer to the listener that they won’t get from listening to other bands of your

    Votes: 3 23.1%
  • What would you consider the biggest triumph about your latest release as far as realizing your artis

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • What would you consider the biggest failure about your latest release as far as realizing your artis

    Votes: 1 7.7%
  • How important is your current lineup to the sound of the band? Is the band a sonic concept unto itse

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Is your band ‘metal’ by intention or happenstance?

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • How important are lyrics and lyrical concepts for your band?

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Of these categories, what is most important to you as a musician and why?: Originality, Songwriting,

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Do you consider it your band’s job more to entertain the listener, or challenge them?

    Votes: 1 7.7%
  • Which is the more important band, the one who is able to impact a young listener like no other band

    Votes: 2 15.4%
  • Is it the music that creates emotion in the listener, or is it the listener that gives validity to t

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • With the ease of self-producing a CD as well as the vast number of smaller labels out there signing

    Votes: 1 7.7%
  • Is being ‘underground’ a badge of honor, or an unfortunate necessity?

    Votes: 3 23.1%
  • What do you consider quality metal ‘journalism’?

    Votes: 1 7.7%

  • Total voters
    13