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(Opinion Thread) Metal Music And The Decline Then Rise In Quality 1990-2021

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burningdoom:

--- Quote from: tripredacus on August 02, 2021, 09:54:43 am ---The problem with the bands listed (besides the non-metal options but let's not forget that Michael Bolton would appear on 80s metal comps) is that they are mostly bands played on the radio. The speed influence of NWOBHM that started in the underground briefly rose to appear in popular music but then popular music went to slower music and ballads. This flows in perfectly to the grundge era, and explains the rise of the heavier nu-metal bands.

Metal on the radio certainly has gone away from the roots and has gone down the same road that country went. But the metal off the radio had progressed differently, and I would say that the quality has actually increased. Especially with access to the internet and being able to listen to bands from other countries.

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Michael Bolton actually started as hair metal...I was surprised when I found out, too.

burningdoom:
I love 70s, 80s, 90s, and 2000s metal.

Though I will admit, the grunge-era was a low-point for metal in general. Despite that, we still had good metal bands like Metallica, Megadeth, Pantera, Queensryche, Testament. and Type O Negative among others. W.A.S.P. was putting out some of the best stuff of their career despite the downfall of hair metal, and Def Leppard was also still going strong. Hell, Megadeth and Metallica alone could've carried metal during those years. They were phenomenal in the 90s.

I'm a big fan of 80s hair metal and the early thrash metal scene, so I have a lot of love for the 80s metal. The Nu-Metal scene was mixed-bag, for me. I really hated the rap-metal hybrid stuff. I'm just not a fan of bands like Limp Bizkit, Rage Against the Machine, Korn, and Kid Rock. Not my scene. But some of the other, not-so-rap nu-metal bands I did like; such as Mudvayne, Coal Chamber, Disturbed, Sevendust, and others. And the first decade of the 2000s heralded the rise of melodic-death metal and metalcore bands I love like Killswitch Engage, Scar Symmetry, In Flames, Dark Tranquility, Insomnium, In This Moment, Trivium, and others; so I'm a big fan of that era.

oldgamerz:
Michael Bolton 1983 album, now if I could find that on CD now THAT would be great, I used to have Michael Bolton's 1983 album title for the cassette, but I never ever found it on CD if any of you guys can get ahold of Michael Bolton 1983 I'd recommend it that album was awesome and it's also rare think

here is a link to this fantastic metal album

https://www.amazon.com/Michael-Bolton/dp/B0000025UD

On a side note Michael Bolton because known better as a Soul and R&B artist after that album came out, he sounds like a black man but I was surprised to find out he was actually white when I first heard the music Michael Bolton was famous for. Many people know him as R&B and Soul but he actually was better at metal in my own opinion. :-\

gummo:
To me , hard rock/metal stumbled around the 90's and has only gotten better . Glam mainly crashed and burned . Metallica dropped a few turds . I was more into thrash and punk so I ended up getting into bands like L7 , Zombie , Manson , anything industrial or experimental . Right now though there's a lot of great metal coming out in more sub-genres than I can keep track of . Nu metal is mostly great as long as it doesn't have auto-tune , European bands are killing it , Metallica finally released a decent album again , I can't complain about metal today . I ended up throwing out most of my cassettes from the 80's so I don't listen to the classics much , just what I've replaced with CDs . Bands I play a lot now - Def Leppard , classic Metallica , Exodus , Megadeth , Lich King , Motionless in White , Avatar , White Zombie/Rob Zombie , Slipknot , Rammstein , Cradle of Filth , Static-X , New Years Day , We Butter the Bread With Butter , Halestorm , 3TEETH , Bullet For My Valentine , Cavalera Conspiracy .

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