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Originally Posted by William_the_Bloody
People still talk about those albums because they are endearing classics that have stood the test of time, the same way AC/DC's Back n Black, Black Sabbath's Paranoid, and every other notable hard rock and metal album.
And the one thing they all have in common, is they were all signed to major labels. Heavy metal isn't a genre riddled with socialists who wanted to preach politics like punk. It was made by guys who wanted the rich rock n roll lifestyle so long as they didn't have to sell out.
There are no classic metal albums on indie labels that can rival the big names. Your not going to hear people rave a about the latest Windir album 20 years from now. "Hey! did you check out that awesome riff on the classic Windir album? "Ya I heard it was made in some guys basement in Finland,"
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If by "people" you mean non-metal fans, then you're only really right about Back in Black, cause everybody else couldn't name a Sabbath album to save their lives. They might know "Iron Man" and "War Pigs", but I doubt they even know they're on the same album. Because they don't care.
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Whether you like it or not Slayer was on a major label, as were every other notable thrash band during the 80's. Yes Slayer is respected because they didn't sell out their sound, but they still had the corporate backing of the major labels to front them money, put them on tour and try to make them as big as f'n possible. Just like Metallica, Maiden, Motorhead AC/DC ect.
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And yet Slayer never sold as many records as the other Big Four. Why? Cause they didn't have a marketable sound. For the most part, I imagine the only people who cared were metal fans.
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You have to have some commercialization & mass marketing to make it appealing to enough teens, or it will simply die over time.
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It already "died" when grunge hit. Thrash was dead, death metal was already starting to die, and black metal would die a few years later, leaving us with nu metal, and if you're satisfied with that then we're not friends.
Know what brought attention back to underground metal? The internet!