sleepy jack

I'm still not seeing the correlation between Dimebag dying and the supposed and debatable decline in the quality of metal.

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Wayfarer

Those aren't the only three metal albums that have been released since Dime died, y'know. Besides, the supposed decline since 2005 could be attributed to anything that happened around then in the rock music world.

2004: Mastodon's "Leviathan"
(2005, the first Guitar Hero game is released)
2006: DragonForce's "Inhuman Rampage"
2007: Dethklok's "The Dethalbum"

I guess it's Guitar Hero's fault.

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Urban Hatemonger

Well how else do you think Motley Crue are going to fill a venue.

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Merkaba

Hahaha I fucking reckon.

Motorhead are awesome.

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Right you lot, shut it. Strewth Fowler my son, all looks a bit pear-shaped round here or what. The govenor's talking, Saturday's game, very dodgy, very naughty, could go a little pear-shaped. If there's a rough things might be well iffy. These faces are a little bit hard, know what I mean, a little bit of oof, have some of that my son, bosh, sorted, ta ta, got me, so be clever. Good, now shut it!

gpackin

What does it matter what albums are selling the best. We all know that some of the best metal is the metal that is far away from being mainstream, thus, won't sell as many albums.

SATCHMO

Metal died with puberty for me

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Voice_of_the_Soul12,13,01

Ok, after seeing those two, I'm wasting my time even more than I was before arguing with you.

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Soulfire77

Yeah, yeah, I know... Korn sucks, Slipknot sucks, cartoons rule.... I didn't say I liked everything on the list (that's why I said "spare me").

The "Black Album" by Metallica was a sell-out piece of ****, in my opinion, as well. Prong made better music with three members than Slipknot does with nine and Korn's non-stop whining is annoying. Yet, Metallica is the original definitive metal band, Slipknot is the "Kiss" of their generation - i.e. your little brother digs the gimmick at first but winds up listening to Reign In Blood in the end (it's newb metal, in other words), Korn... well, all I can say about them is: The Korn/Zombie tour was one of the best ****ing shows I ever saw... But, that was mostly because of Zombie. Also, having lost my little brother to cancer at 15, I always admired the song "Justin" and the story behind it.

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Soulfire77

It's symbolic, I guess.

The decline time frame is coincidental - to be sure - metal was declining before Dime died. It just serves as a backdrop for the bigger point (also made a catchy subject line, I thought).

For instance, ask any baby boomer when psychedelic rock declined and they will probably tell you "when Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison died". Of course, ask any old-school metal fan about that same thing and they will tell you that Black Sabbath transformed psychedelic rock into heavy metal, therefore it never really declined - only evolved (less acid, more tritone, double the bass).

The question is: Is metal going to evolve... or die?

If bands like Unexpect are the next step for metal, my guess is the latter.

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Voice_of_the_Soul12,13,01

Well do something about it. If you're so disappointed with metal of today, then make them eat **** and start a band. Redefine metal, or at very least breathe life into it as it were. PErsonally, I'm satisfied. Sure, I wish all the crappy bands would die, but if you spend all your time going "Eighteen Visions ****ing blows" instead of looking for the good bands, you're just a whiner. Look for the silver lining in the clouds.

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