Originally Posted by Unitron

+10000000000

Couldn't agree more. Not only that, but the productions are so slick and overpolished that there is absolutely zero point of any riffs actually being there. If you're going to play like a pop band, don't try and pretend to be a metal band.

Anyway, in relation to the topic:

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.