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Originally Posted by The Batlord
**** commercial success. The idea that metal should be commercially successful, or that it somehow has to do with its quality, flies in the face of it's basic premise: to be louder and more subversive than commercial rock. And as ****ty as BMTH is at least their earlier **** was fun, unlike the dull piss water that is their current sound.
And metalcore is the best metal or hardcore.
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Well yes their last album was...not metal, but simply put, Parkway Drive and BMTH were able to come with guitar riffs that were more interesting and catchy than Earth Crisis and Ringworm, which is why know one remember the latter.
As for metal being harder than commercial rock, I don't think that's to hard to do these days with Maroon 5 on the comeback, extreme metal has its place, but it only appeals to a small niche audience, if heavy metal wants to survive as a commercial enterprise it needs to branch out.
You can't really go any harder than we already have, I would argue that metal needs to go back to being a talent bar in rock. Metal was inevitably more commercially successful than punk because it was more talented. I mean who would you rather listen to, Metallica or Minor Threat?