Why is Metallica so popular to the point of being on Fortnite when Metal is a niche genre?

nu-Cucktalica is soi metal

>>126680684 (OP)
They wrote songs about being a depressed loser instead of about vikings/elves/demons so normies will listen to them.

Metallica is one of the very few metal bands that actually have memorable songwriting. Each song from their prime is instantly recognizable and a lot of them are highly anthemic too. Even zoomers like them for it.

>>126680763
They also don't do the whole "durr we're tough metal dudes bro" act now that they're in their 60s, nor do they come across as overtly nerdy. They're like cool older uncles. This also increases their normie appeal

They are from an age when Metal was mainstream.

>>126680684 (OP)
basically the Beatles of metal, accessible enough to be normie-friendly (the Black Album being overtly commercial) and experimental/groundbreaking enough to be respected by real music fans

>>126681906
yeah pretty much this. This is also why Mustaine is still so butthurt 40 years later, Megadeth is massive in the metal world, while Tallica is massive in the wide music world.

Metallica is overrated SLOP. Two good albums, like 7 terrible ones
>inb4 St. Anger was actually great
Fuck right off

>>126682575
You are exaggerating. Kill 'em All, Ride the Lightning, Master of Puppets and And Justice for All are all great albums. The Black Album is more commercial and Pop oriented but still a good album. 5 good albums in a row.
Even Load and Reload have very good songs between them.

>>126680684 (OP)
it's literally music from babies
from the very first moment of their career their MO was to make everything as commercial as possible, they took the bay area thrash sound and made it as catchy and vapid as humanly possible and proceeded to continuously dillute it with other elements throughout their career but with the same goal, to appeal to as wide an audience as possible

>>126683029
That's forumshitter revisionist history and you know it. KEA wipes the floor with literally all metal that preceded it.

>>126682257
you know what else is massive...

>>126680684 (OP)
Why do people support Orwellian democracy? Because they are retarded and can only adopt trends that are already popular.
Those capable of independent thought and emotion are few.

>>126683079
yea dude lmao, with such classics as motorbreath and jump in the fire give me a fucking break, it's mickey mouse music everywhere mustaine didn't have a hand

>>126683111
Shifting goalposts I see. You said they diluted Bay Area thrash when they basically created it.

>>126681906
Bingo. Metalicca is very melodic/memorable thrash metal.

>>126683141
METALLICA didn't create shit, because metallica is lars ulrich and james hetfield

>>126683212
Incoherent post.

>>126683236
you are attributing the creation of a genre to the entity that is recognized today as metallica when said entity only usurped what others created at the time they were emerging in the scene
I say they make vapid commercial music that attribute their popularity to that and your counterargument is to reference their first record where half of it is decent material written by a person who's not even playing on it and the other half is the exact same vapid commercial music in a "thrash metal" context

>>126680786
Some Kind of Monster showed us all that they're petty, whiny, bitchy assholes just like all of us. They're incredibly relatable.

>>126683175
>>126681906
no you have it all wrong
metallica are the queen of music
you're disgracing the beatles, who are actual pioneers and creative geniuses and who even at their most commercial they at least made boppin music, by making that comparison
metallica couldn't even in their wildest dreams think of jamming out a simply genious tune like ticket to ride, let alone an innovative masterpiece like tomorrow never knows
what has metallica achieved? their big songs like for whom the bell tolls and master of puppets are almost made to be iconic, to be endlessly referenced as a standard, not of songwriting or musical ingenuity but pop culture in itself
think of what a song like creeping death or for whom the bells tolls is meant to achieve cause it's so similar to tracks like we will rock you or we are the champions (that I can barely consider music), it's meant to entertain the way a theme park or rollercoaster ride is, not in any pure musical way

>>126680684 (OP)
they made a decision in 1989 to sell out and become a pop act. hope that helps.

>>126680763
>>126680786
you guys act like what normies like and don't like is somehow organic. normies like what the music industry tells them to like. if the music industry wanted death metal to be the biggest genre on the planet they could do it tomorrow and you'd have starbucks-sipping teen girls wearing morbid angel shirts and calling you an incel if you wanted to listen to taylor swift.

>>126683276
>said entity only usurped what others created at the time they were emerging in the scene
What thrash was there before 1983 for them to "usurp", exactly?

>muh Dave wrote the good ones!
An arbitrary distinction since even the Dave songs are verse-chorus-solo fare, such as the song you literally mentioned above. I admit Dave added the coolest riffs, but let's not pretend the guy who penned "Peace Sells" is above pop metal.

>>126683438
I'm neither claiming dave is some progressive genious nor that he didn't make multiple attempts at the same commercial slop metallica made their entire career
all I'm saying is he was a co-creater of thrash metal, his riffs are 50% of the listenable early metallica output and megadeth's greatest songs shit all over anything metallica ever did

>>126680788
this. it wasn't niche in the 80s. it was new and exciting, or so i imagine

>>126683141
>they basically created it.
No they straight up copied Testament

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>>126680684 (OP)
metal wasn't niche back then

>>126683964
Metallica predates Testament by 5 years

metal is worshiped because it's brc

The most mid and stock easily palatable band that got shilled relentlessly for decades. It's the Mcdonald's of metal music.

>>126682575
>overrated SLOP. Two good albums, like 7 terrible ones
what is Megadeth