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Originally Posted by Necromancer
Of course modern grunge still exist under the label of post grunge just like blues rock and psychedelic rock, and so on still exist in the modern era. You only have to surf youtube in order to find the music and bands. But it is nowhere as popular as it was during the early to mid nineties.
Suggesting that the core grunge bands Alice in Chains and Stone Temple Pilots were not grunge is preposterous. All of the top Seattle grunge bands basically used the same style of depressive, etc. lyrics with their music.
I will say that the Stone Temple Pilots evolved into a more pop/rock mainstream sound and style with their music later on during the mid to late 90s.
I'm not going to tell you that all of these bands only fit under the grunge label and not the heavy metal genre, It doesn't really matter which way you go with it, it's still core grunge in the end.
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It is not preposterous because they are not grunge bands. Stone Temple Pilots were a Pearl Jam rip off band. Pearl Jam was explicitly not a grunge band. Half the band quit an actual grunge band because they did not want to play grunge. They wanted to indulge their love of classic rock and so they formed Mother Love Bone, and the rest is history. Ergo, any band who takes their sound from Pearl Jam, such as Stone Temple Pilots, is not a grunge band.
And Alice In Chains may have been influenced by actual grunge, but they were a metal band. They started out playing metal covers. They played their first tour with Slayer, Anthrax, and Megadeth. Their name was originally supposed to be a name for a hair band for god's sake. If you're going to call them a grunge band then you may as well call Danzig one too. AIC is closer to them than they ever were to Nirvana.
Just because bands happen to be associated with a genre that was packaged by record labels and MTV does not mean that they were actually of that genre. The grunge sound that was sold to the masses was for the most part not grunge. Period.