Heavy Metal music - new guard vs old guard

[Cactus]

disolitude said:

Cactus said:
I'm not sure it would be wise to group the bands like that. Are you talking only mainsream or what? There are countless bands who play the style of the bands listed in Group 1 today.

Based on those bands though, I would go with Group 1 for sure.

There are many bands that keep old school metal alive today...but yeah, I'm talking commercally viable bands.

I hear more and more of these new bands playign the same music as bands 15 years ago. Cellador and Metalium for example... do they really think they are pushing the genre forward? Like they sound great...but its been done...

 

 

Well, it all depends if you like the direction that these new bands are taking the genre. Is commercialization a good thing for metal?

These new bands are pushing the genre in a direction that I don't like. I prefer when the the bands play the same music as your listed Group 1, but give it their own distinctive style which makes it diffrent, and original in its own way. Mainstream doesn't automatically mean evoultion and originality. In many cases it just means stagnation and simplification of a genre to appeal to the mass audience. Luckily with metal, there are so many sub-genres and local bands, so that even if the commercialization level rises, it will never overtake the genre as a whole.

I guess it all boils down to your genre of choice though. Keep in mind that the second part of my post is solely my opinion and nothing else.