KaiKaspareK's Kremling Kreator

Artist rendition of core-cunts squawking "plant" at Castle Rat's rise while being nostalgic for nu-metal on TRL           Being a metalhead sucks sometimes.  The biggest reason it sucks is you think the world revolves around you and that you're opinion matters the most (which in my case, it does), when the reality is it couldn't be further from the truth.  Now I like to think my thoughts are a mixture or reasonability, and unreasonability.      One opinion I hold that I think is very reasonable is that metal should be just as big as any other genre in American pop culture.  At various points in time, for reasons correct and incorrect, it was.      Now the likes of Ozzy Osbourne, Motley Crue, and Iron Maiden certainly never had the cultural currency of a Prince, a Michael Jackson or a Bruce Springsteen, but they were still major players.  They headlined arenas, had songs your average Joe Q fuck-face would kno...

1. The term "classic rock" is dead:      90s and 00s bands can't and shouldn't be considered classic rock.  For one thing, they didn't have the small backlash period that 80s and 70s band did only to be re-curated under this new moniker.  It could be argued that grunge never "died," but more accurately it never went through a backlash period and those bands are still loved.  Fair enough, but Alice In Chains, Soundgarden and Nirvana never has been, nor will it be, classic rock.  and I like those first two! 2.  Lars was right about the Napster, but...       ... he was a terrible spokesperson for the cause.  He should have picked Jason Newsted instead.  Granted in that timeline he takes so much abuse he leaves Metallica anyway, but at least there would be less bad juju surrounding Metallica considering he was forced out for the sake of the brand (which ultimately succeeded.  Stupid asshole posers). 3. Pantera was not cal...