Bigfooty General Metal Thread Mk.VII

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Paul Kersey said:
I think there is only so much you can do with rock based music. I think we could all survive off our collections being limited to music recorded between 1970 - 1995. Once the second wave of black metal petered out at 95 the progression of metal pretty much came to an end for me (save for brutal death I guess though its peak was over 20 years ago). Guarantee punk/hardcore etc would pretty much follow the same path. Many great albums recorded since 95 though nothing that hasn’t really been done before.
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Some late 90's n beyond grindcore & DM possibly, but yeah sfa
 

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Dee Snider said:
New Evergrey on heavy rotation of late. I think I own one album. Really surprised with the quality of this release. Definitely Top 10 material.
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Yeah i gave it a spin after you recommended it. I dont think id heard more than a song or two from them before listening to the album and it was really good!
 
Dee Snider said:
New Evergrey on heavy rotation of late. I think I own one album. Really surprised with the quality of this release. Definitely Top 10 material.
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Extremely consistent band though, they haven't really had a bad release.

Half of the new album is top-notch IMO, the other half is still good compared to everything else by dark prog/power bands.
 
utility said:
Not a metal post and not really a rant... I saw a video pop of all the #1 hits in Australia for a decade so decided to watch vids from the 1950s through to the 2000s.

Music was very, very predictable and tame in the '50s up until the mid '60s when The Beatles appeared. I didn't realise it but they held the #1 slot for about 8 of 12 months in 1964! It's insane how big they were and we'll never see anything like it again. The Stones arrived around '65 and by '66 was the beginning of the psychedelic movement (although not represented by #1 hits). There was a large transformation moving from the 60s into the 70s, and the quality of songs started picking up around 1975. The quality was consistent to around the mid 80s before starting to slide a bit, and by the mid-90s it was a nose dive in quality. The 2000s songs are utter garbage. There are people like Kylie Minogue and Madonna that had #1 songs during this time and they're total crap compared to their '80s hits.

Now I know this is a very narrow sample of normie music but to a large degree mirrors metal. You had proto-metal 66-69 with Sabbath arriving in 1970, but things didn't really get moving until Judas Priest ('76), Motorhead ('77), etc. From there things were absolutely explosive up until the late 80s when things started to plateau, and by the mid 90s it was almost dead. Since then there's been plenty of decent music but barely little innovation.

It seems like we got to a point in the 90s and exhausted the best of what we could do musically, kinda like the Pareto Principle... 80% of the best music was already recorded. There has undeniably been a decline in artistic capability and expression during the past 30 years. What to put this down to? Is it that the culture is burnt out? Are we too decadent as a society? Has technology indirectly (and directly) destroyed the art of music? Is there anywhere further to go or are we simply repeating what has come before us? The decline was before the internet and Napster, so while it may be a factor there's something definitely bigger influencing the decline.

I'd be interested to hear what you guys think.
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My favourite bands - Viagra Boys, Fat White Family, Protomartyr, Parquet Courts, to name a few - largely borrow from 80s post-punk and new wave but to me are still very interesting, fresh and importantly are incredible live performers. I suppose there's always the way genres are adapted to pop which is quite interesting, like Charli XCX's brand of hyperpop borrowing from EDM or from earlier in the century Gorillaz's alien blend of pop, hip-hop and rock and anything else.

I think there's a lot of interesting people and bands doing interesting music. Unfortunately the money is shit as everyone streams and the cut is atrocious for artists, and exposure is increasingly difficult as major labels follow algorithmic trends now.

As for metal I don't seek out nearly as much new stuff as I did in my teens so I can't fully comment but it's probably just limited in scope as a genre and has mostly run its race innovation wise after 50 odd years. But I mean there's still a ****ton of interesting and different bands to sift through so eh, I don't really think it's an issue.
 
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