I think people just like their logos and brand first and music last except 'Touch of Grey'.
They only seem to release music if they think it'll do nothing but make major success through radio and appease record labels.
See their song 'Thunder'.
Agreed.
I mean, I felt like AC/DC focused more on brand recognition when Brian Johnson took over after Bon Scott died. Their music were aiming for radio appeal, not that no musician should because it means being successful, but it almost was formulaic. Thunderstruck for example, became a staple for sports soundtracks and stadium like events.
And they're a victim of their own success as you've talked here, where someone who didn't grow up with the band, will only focus on the popular songs. Despite them having grown up with at least a couple albums that AC/DC did release, like their last album 'Power Up' was in 2020. It's the same deal with Nirvana, always wearing that double-X smiley shirt or having the poster and only saying they cared about Nevermind. The same for Guns 'N Roses where it's always both of the Appetite for Destruction albums and songs like Welcome to the Jungle and November Rain.
I think it honestly just speaks about a fan's depth as to how much they like bands. An actual fan likes a band and addresses both flaw and success. A casual fan only likes what was popular and nothing else for cheap nods.
The people running Anna's Archive should've really known better. At one hand, I'm appreciative for what they attempted to do. But on the other hand, they've really painted a big target on their backs by scraping on Spotify. Now they have the RIAA legion sickened on them and they're probably now going to get nuked by lawsuits and appeals. So, in a sense, Anna's Archive kinda went and blew themselves up, screwing people out of a good source.
Why do I have a feeling they're going to make it optional anyways?
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I only have the Hercules one and about a couple Tron games, which I would've thought they'd be included too.
Sleep Token.
And I'm not saying that because they're currently popular. But I'm just about done with gimmicky pretentious bands like them. All of their songs are almost 10 minutes long too. Not listening to that. President recently did debut last year but all of that hype amounted to a wet fart.
You could really say that for a lot of bands like them, honestly. That's why almost any classic rock band can only think of that one song from that one band.
Gene Simmons is a bastard who recently played down Ace Frehley's death.
KISS just never did it for me, I only liked maybe three songs from them. All that they were ever capable of, musically, was write songs about just plain love and cheesy at that. They were mostly a cheesy band just decked out in a gimmick more than anything and they merchandised the hell out of themselves for years. Nothing was off limits. But that didn't make the music any better.
Metal does not always need to be about screaming lyrics, fast-paced instrumentals and catchy solos and riffs. It comes in a lot of forms. If you were expecting Ghost to be yet another band where the vocalist is barking lyrics or wailing them whichever, the instrumental to be just plain heavy, then yeah I can see why you're disappointed.
Also Arena-Rock is quite frankly a more horrible thing to classify them as. They just simply don't fit that mold whereas Journey would.
It is all about direction and control of sound.
That's honestly how piracy in general should be. But as we've learned, have learned and seemingly continue to learn. That, the reason a number of great piracy sources go down the way they did was because, someone had a very big mouth and drew attention that ended up costing us great sources that had lasted a good long while.
These days, it's get your pirating in as much as you can, take your loot and provide only to those who know how and when to shut up.