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[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 146 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Went to a metal concert last year for a huge, well known band. The number of punisher/warrior, thin blue line, militia-styled ragged flag, Gadsden shirts and hats was off the charts.

In my younger days metal was anti-authoritarianism, anti-cop, anti-conformity… now these clowns are the ones who want to be holding the riot batons, the body armor, and support the very fascists we hated.

I got plenty of grey hair, the crowd around me didn’t so I’m thinking there’s a generational shift to metal going fascist.

Yeah, the meme rings pretty true.

[-] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 47 points 6 months ago

Your comment reminds me of Metallica many years ago. Their first albums were really good I thought. Then they cut their hair, their music started to sound more mainstream and I heard from friends that the band kind apologized for the anti war lyrics on their earlier albums. I guess money talks in strange ways.

[-] glitchdx@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago

You know you're in a room full of true metal heads when everyone has distinctly point to when metallica started to suck, especially if they all point to different albums.

[-] tearsintherain@leminal.space 8 points 6 months ago

Metallica died after Cliff died, that dude was the heart of the band. If you read up on Burton you'll find musical crossover with Martin of the great Faith No More.

In addition to 'One', don't forget the great 'Disposable Heroes'. Totally sold out with the Black Album and thereafter.

[-] nomous@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I remember them getting haircuts and piercings and everyone being like "wtf?"

That and the Lars/Napster stuff really soured them for me.

[-] glitchdx@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

I know I'm not a "true metalhead" because I never cared about the culture, I only cared about the music. As far as I can tell, metallica still makes banger music. I am not an authority on this subject.

[-] nomous@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

I'm not much of a metal head anymore but it was the first genre I was really into when I started developing my own taste in music.

They're not really for me but they're definitely still one of the biggest bands in the world with millions of fans and I'm not gonna tell all those people they don't have any taste in music you know? To each their own.

[-] Soggy@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

There's still at least three good tracks on that album. It does mark a turning point.

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