#metal evolution

I have been listening to Metal since the ripe age of four years old, I believe. That’s if memory serves me right. My Metal journey started earlier than some. My family is deeply rooted in Metal and music in general. The tastes don’t stop in one genre for me, but for this article, I wanted to focus on the usual topic. I grew up on Rush, Metallica, Def Leppard, Fear Factory, Van Halen, and…

4/16/23

Episodes 1-3

lmao at Yngwie Malmsteen just having a bunch of Ferraris just parked as randomly as possible in his garden.

I was not expecting Ronnie James Dio's mantlepiece to be full of statuettes of princesses and dragons?

No Arthur Brown? Bruh I'm pretty sure his performance of Fire contributed more to the look of metal than anything else (although gay leather culture probably contributed just as much)

NWOBHM

my verdict is that yes, Def Leppard do belong to the movement just because I really like them

Glam Metal

despite what they claim in the episode, the genre had a renaissance and it did manage to attract an awful lot of young people. But I guess it was too hard to take a look to what was happening in Europe in the mid/late 2000s (especially in Swden where they had a whole movement called the New Wave of Swedish Sleaze)

also very important considering the two episodes that follow this one: i like that the glam metal dudes seem to have a sense of humor, self awareness and a tendency to mind their own business.

also after watching the following two episodes, very sad that is apparently a bad thing for a band to have a sense of showmanship and wanting people to be entertained and have a good time.

Thrash Metal

yeah yeah you're better than the glam metal band because you don't wear makeup and spandex.

I absolutely dislike Lars Ulrich but it is super funny to listen to him try to convince everyone that the black album was not them selling out tho.

hysterically funny to see the people who opened the episode mocking glam metal bands for wanting to have crossover appeal not only celebrating the popularity of the black album but trying to justify the fact that each and every one of them changed their sound to try and replicate metallica's success?

the episode about thrash metal really made me realize that i just don't like the way a lot of US bands sound (Megadeth are the exception). Gonna stick with the European bands.

Grunge

Holy fuck I thought the thrash metal dudes were unsufferable but jesus fucking christ the grunge people are so much worse. "Glam metal was ridiculous and stupid unlike us who are very smart and deep and original and have integrity and personality" like settle down dude, you're not the second coming of the christ.

we have here a grunge producer dude who just informed us that metal is noisy and the songwriting is shit unlike grunge which is intelligent and apparently full of musical geniuses. Not sure if the documentary people are trying to make everybody who was in a grunge band seem like cunts or if grunge musicians are even more elitist than metal musicians?

oh god now the grunge musicians are mad at the bands they influenced for being too derivative and not challenging enough. Very bizarre thing to criticise considering that grunge is overall really easy to digest both musically and lyrically?

these people just feel miserable like they have been complaining about everything, including grunge raising to mainstream popularity. Buddy I don't know how to tell you this, you decided to sign a contract with a major label?

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