Being one with less mainstream tastes, I'm keeping an eye on the growing momentum of the underground American Black Metal scene. I love the intense, heavy sound, and many of the bands are not signed to labels and never will be because they focus on the music and not the money they can make from it. I just hope that the new incarnation of the genre isn't as litered with violence as its European predecessor. I really don't think a musician stabbing another dozens of times out of fear that someone else is gaining too much recognition will go over too well. Same with killing band members and eating their brains. One such incident
would draw so much criticism and ire from far more than just the ultra-religious that it would cripple underground metal in this country, most likely permanently.
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Originally posted by Derwood
Oh, and just because a good band like The White Stripes appears on MTV, it doesn't suddenly make them suck. That's an ignorant standpoint (not pointing the finger at anyone in this thread, but this sentiment has been voiced on TFP in the past...)
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Can someone please tell me what's so great about the White Stripes? I can see that some of their stuff isn't bad, but I odn't see what the huge hype is about. I should try to remember and paraphrase the 20-minute rant I started when Jack white made Rolling Stone's greatest guitarists list. I mean, he's got some talent, but just as an example, there's no excuse for putting him at 17 and David Gilmour at 82