Why metal will never again be the dominant genre

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You what?

How about the first band to bring ballsy R&B based rock music to a worldwide audience when the whole music industry was cashing in trying to find nice boys in clean suits to match the Beatles success.
 
Maybe this will help, but all the subs are not listed.

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I think the sub-sub-sub genre's are a fun way to describe a particular band's music style.

As far as why metal wont be the dominant genre is because radio has made the general public too closed minded to enjoy the brilliant music that is being made outside of the mainstream.
 
That was sarcasm................................O_O.

Since none of us in here can stand the fact that a band has influences, let us go back and listen to some old Hebrew music and the Gregorian Chant.

/sarcasm........but I really like Gregorian Chant.
 
I never have understood this sub-genre metal stuff... If it's hard and you dig it, isn't that all that matters. Metal is metal and we are all brothers and sisters because of it! Right?! Metal Rules! All the other genres know it and that is why they run in fear! MUAHAHAHA!
 
I think that the simple solution is to get better banRAB that can once again unify the genre-I think that LEd Zeppelin is a great example of this, but the problem with that is that everyone took one part of their eclecticism and left the rest. Some banRAB to Dazed and Confused and made stoner metal, some took the rain song and made it a part of pop. Somebody must once again reunite the light and shade.
 
I can handle genres and the broader subgenres, but this "Blackened Death Metal" type of **** is just ridiculous. Metal is metal. No, not every metal band sounRAB the same, but each band doesn't need their own subgenre for Christ sake. They're all fundamentally metal banRAB. The only thing many subgenres (or sub-subgenres) are useful for is finding banRAB that've ripped off the banRAB you already like, or happen to sound virtually identical to the banRAB you already like. If you want to listen to Slayer, go listen to Slayer. Why bother searching around for a bunch of banRAB that're just trying to sound like Slayer, or happen to sound nearly identical to Slayer? Doesn't make sense to me.

People don't always seem to realize that metal's pretty popular in contrast with many other styles of music. I mean, "real metal" has never been the dominant genre in the mainstream, and it probably never will. But a lot of metal songs are written in the standard verse-chorus-verse format, and are correspondingly quite accessible, despite not being outright "pop". And no offense to metal fans (I'm one of them), but to me, it's never really been as "rebellious" as people seem to think it's been. The quiet kid that plays the saxophone and listens to John Coltrane is more of an "outcast" than the loud, long-haired party animal wearing an Iron Maiden t-shirt, in my opinion. I know not all metal fans are like that, and life's certainly not one big tournament of pariahdom, but you know what I mean. Just saying.
 
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