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Originally Posted by William_the_Bloody
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.
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And those metal bands by and large suck ass and have no credibility to the metal community at large.
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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.
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As opposed to the one cent on the dollar bands used to make off of their god forsaken record deals? I assume bands lived off money from touring just as much then as they do now.