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Originally Posted by The Batlord
What does mainstream success contribute to metal? The internet's democratization of music has done far more to make underground metal a viable career choice than anything Metallica ever did in the nineties.
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Well that's all fine and dandy but bands that are signed to majors typically have longer shelf lives, and metal was pretty much dead with teenagers in North America, until metalcore rolled in.
You make less as an underground band now than you did back than because your income source primarily comes from live shows, music these days is pretty much downloaded for free, so record sales mean squat. You tour and tour until you start to get rampant tinnitus and burn out. So much for the metal underground.