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Originally Posted by The Batlord
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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If Sabbath was not on a major label they would never have had the fanbase they had.
The radio exposure of Iron Man and Paranoid opened the doors of metal & hard rock for thousands of people over the years. And even those who can't name a Sabbath album may enjoy Iron Man, Paranoid and other hard rock songs as a result.
I would argue that the Dead Kennedys are on the same talent level as Sabbath, if not more. They remained on an indie label and had an extremely large fanbase for an alternative band, but they never got the exposure that Sabbath did, and as a result the genre is nil.
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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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Yes, but they were still signed to a major label. As were Portishead & Massive Attack, but because of the democratization of music and free downloading record companies can't afford to take a chances on bands like that anymore. Which is why there is no Slayer equivalent today.
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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.
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No, I loathe Nu metal, but its popularity sparked a new generations interest in metal, and even during that period there were some decent hard rock/metal songs that got airplay (Orgy:Blue Monday, Coal Chamber: Shock the Monkey, Manson) ect !
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Know what brought attention back to underground metal? The internet
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Fair enough. You know what brought heavy metal back into the mainstream and supplied it with a large new fanbase of teenagers? Metalcore!