The rise and fall of musical genres

The Batlord · 08-08-2015, 02:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

And metal is most definitely not in a dip, I'd say it's at one of its best stages in its history right now.

Nah, metal's peaked. People will always want to hear extreme forms of music, so I doubt it'll ever truly "die", but the original purpose of metal (being louder than all the music which had come before) was fulfilled with the creation of death metal, grindcore, and 2nd wave black metal.

Now, great music is made for the most part by singular, experimental bands, putting new spins on pre-existing sub-genres, with only a few small scenes forming around any one sound.

Other than that, you just have throwback bands playing the same thrash, black, death, trad, etc metal which other bands already pioneered decades ago.

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Originally Posted by EPOCH6

I was totally on board with the thrash revival of the late 00's and early 10's, damn near all I listened to between 2008 and 2012. A lot of great albums came out of that movement (Black Future, Waking Into Nightmares, Ironbound, Enter the Grave etc) but a lot more mediocrity came with it, at least thrash is still fun as hell even when it's mediocre. Did that wave of bands see any attention here on the forum? Batlord maybe?

Lost interest in about two months, when I realized it was nothing more than 3rd rate Nuclear Assault worship, kept from any kind of real sonic threat by self-consciously retro schtick. The "thrash revival" is one of the worst jokes in the entirety of metal history. Post-"Home Sweet Home" hair metal had more creative worth.