Thread 128147838

Do you guys think extreme metal can ever make a comeback in popularity?

extreme metal was never and has never been mainstream.
black metal was pretty popular in the 2010s with hipsters and the like

>>128147838 (OP)
sick of seeing this 48 year old childless woman in the catalog

Half of what I listen to is extreme metal, and I'm kind of wondering if I'm living in the same world as you guys. This is the first time extreme metal bands are literal rockstars - Gojira, Knocked Loose, Behemoth, Lorna Shore, Meshuggah, Opeth - these are some of the biggest bands in the world right now, and I don't think that's ever really been true in the past. I'm not big on most of the bands I just listed, but the level of visibility extreme metal has right now is insane. Mopey online emo kids are identifying with Mayhem and Lifelover right now. Rock may be dying out of the mainstream, and indie (basically the other half of what I listen to) has become somewhat redundant, but the fracturing of mainstream media has actually been amazing for metal.

>>128147858
Even as an underground act in the early 1990s, the Norwegian black metal scene influenced many genres within metal and even other totally different music styles that helped shape new forms of sound. I don't think it ever will but there are some artists like Weeping moon who are doing some interesting records.

>>128147838 (OP)
>corpse paint
>Deathcore
Poseur

wow vault■ invented paramore band wow has to concede to vault■ guy immediately and redact all FAKE MUSIC NEWS ARTICLES THAT ARE REFUSAL TO CONCEDE TO NEW VEGAS

>>128147919
I listen to accessible and extreme music, I think it's great to have a contrast of emotions in music.

But not everybody likes it though, Opeth for example faced lots of criticism when they went softer.

what does josh farro think about this

>>128147959
>Opeth for example faced lots of criticism when they went softer.
It just got him a new Martin sig.
Which is kind of cool. They've never reached out to metal guys before.

Metal is huge still in Europe and South America.

For me, it's infant annihilator

>>128148100
I like some of the opeth recent stuff I'm not judging, but lots of fans from the still life era were pissed off with sorceress etc

>>128147838 (OP)
Wow she didn’t answer the question at all

>>128147858
death metal was also semi-popular in the early 90s when grunge made people pay attention to underground rock in general

>>128148499
I think it is such an injustice to say tha grunge killed mainstream rock, it was the media and even the collective of rock that as a whole decided to become so pleasing and aesthetical and that whole arena thing of the 80s, "ah but the money", "ah but if you were there" yeah man sure, ut in 70s it wasn't like that, and there was no mtv either.

no.

>>128148111
but extreme metal isn't.

>>128149623
There are big underground scenes still, but it'd be really cool to see something as big as today's pop artists, at least one death metal band being that popular would be awesome.

>>128147858
Mtv played death metal.

>>128147919
>Gojira
Not extreme
>Knocked Loose
Not metal. And the list goes on, and even then, Has you sister actually heard one(or all) of these?

>>128151975
How about you go take a shower you stupid fat fuck virgin. Metal is shit and so is your fuckass taste.

Never, I hope (I'm an "elitist" and a "gatekeeper").

>>128152020
Cleaner than you. Smarter than you. Skinnier than you.

>>128147838 (OP)
It was never very popular. The music is just too abrasive. The most exposure it got was probably in the media coverage in nordic countries following the insane shit black metal bands were doing there in the 90s. Also tangential, but most deathcore kinda sucks. People who listen to it should do themselves a favor and listen to brutal death metal instead. It shares many of the same elements, but without the faggy 21st century metalcore ones.
>>128147919
None of those bands are really big. Compare them to the amount of plays rappers and pop stars get, and it's orders of magnitude less.
>>128151975
>>Gojira
>Not extreme
Retard
>>Knocked Loose
>Not metal
Double retard

>>128147838 (OP)
>corpse paint for some reason
>twitter screencap from May
>girl didnt even answer the question
>the image is irrelevant to OP's question
goddamn that's some good bait. 10/10 ill swallow the hook

>>128147838 (OP)
Stupid cunt isn't funny at all, they were inspired by shitty pop punk.

>>128152381
>Retard
>Double retard
Oh. Well there are some really big extreme metal bands then. Like Credence Clearwater and The Weekend.

>>128147858
>>128147838 (OP)
>>128147919
>>128152432
>>128152381
Slipknot was extremely popular

>>128147858
fpbp

>>128147838 (OP)
Genuinely embarrassing.

>>128147858
Thrash Metal counts as Extreme Metal by most definitions, so wrong.

>>128147858
>extreme metal was never and has never been mainstream.
You say this but death metal bands were playing on MTV in the 1990s and in some countries, weaker variants of death metal like melodeath played on radiostations throughout the 90s and 2000s.

There was always "those 12-15 year olds" who listened to some random melodeath or deathcore band in every school across most of the West.

>>128153945
>>128154110
Wow, that's just like Taylor Swift today! I take it back, extreme metal was mainstream!

>>128154133
Why are you like this?

>>128154133
>I take it back, extreme metal was mainstream
yes
taylor swift's largest concert was only 96,000 people
thrash metal bands played to a crowd of 1.6 million people in the 90s

>>128154161
Is that even possible today with all the health and safety regulations?

Didn't a death metal band play at the 2024 olympics?

>>128154110
>death metal bands were playing on MTV
Those instances were almost exclusively limited to metal-oriented TV programs like Headbangers Ball. Still nowhere near mainstream. I think they might have showed a Death music video on Beavis and Butt-Head once, but that was it when it comes to death metal escaping into non-metal-specific environments. That being said, thrash metal falls under the umbrella of extreme metal, and Metallica went uber mainstream. Admittedly it was mostly because of the black album, which wasn't thrash, but a lot of normies took a liking to their thrash stuff after discovering them through their non-thrash music.

>>128154211
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5oIx3nRnVs

>>128154211
>>128154230
neat

>>128154161
that concert was never really about the music, inform yourself

>>128154347
>*metal bands magically making almost 2 million people conjure out of thin air* (1991, colorized)

>>128147838 (OP)
The "extreme metal" that was once truly popular wasn't really extreme metal, I'm talking about shit like Limp Bizkit, Slipknot, Pantera.

Extreme metal bands that are more well known are just that, famous but not mainstream where they have the same spotlight as more "normie music"

>>128147838 (OP)
metal

>>128154347
>as opposed to pop

>>128151943
Beavis and Butt-Head did not approve. Doesn't count.

>>128154559
deathcore got pretty popular and it was more extreme.
https://youtu.be/nOJHbpijw3o?si=E1h51SI6oEWbfREx

What extreme metal has mainstream appeal?
My vote goes to Fleshgod Apocalypse.

>>128154559
>The "extreme metal" that was once truly popular wasn't really extreme metal, I'm talking about shit like Limp Bizkit, Slipknot, Pantera.
I've listened to those bands, and slipknot seemed noticeably heavier to me than the other 2 bands. Well, aside from a few songs from pantera, like suicide note part 2.

There is definitely heavier bands out there, but i don't get why people would say that slipknot is not extreme. It might be due to how chaotic their songs get or the production, but it was harder for me to get used to than some of the death/black metal bands ive heard.

>>128153062
Slipknot is only "extreme" to the type of people who thought Limp Bizkit and early Linkin Park were "extreme".

>>128147838 (OP)
>deathcore
>corpse paint
Imagine taking that bitch seriously

>>128160140
>Slipknot is only "extreme" to the type of people who thought Limp Bizkit and early Linkin Park were "extreme".
What do you mean? How are they not extreme?

>>128160246
Words have meaning. "Extreme metal" refers to thrash, death, black, variants thereof. It does not refer to numetal, and especially not to numetal that tamed itself for fame.

>>128160266
Doom Metal is also "extreme" metal. It's a meaningless buzzword.

>>128160465
>It's a meaningless buzzword.
It still doesn't include nu metal, though.

>metal
>extreme

>>128147838 (OP)
Zoomers are too endocrinologically bombarded by androgen receptor disruptors and estrogen from their food and environment to ever be into metal, so no.

>>128147838 (OP)
I'm a Hayleyfag / stan but yeah this is poseur behavior. She doesnt know much about Black Metal or anything like that, to be fair "Death Core" also has done the corpse paint shit

Anyway the make up aint bad Hayley but you missed up the white face base so it looks like war paint, like you are a ghost, already dead.

BM make up is fairly easy to do all things considered. She should do a Katrina make up that shit is actually aesthetic and represents death which is a theme of hers nowadays i guess cuz she be wanting to off herself and depression and all that shit that she will end up overcoming