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When was Heavy Metal ever really there to begin with, chart wise? If you count the goofballs in the 80s like Motley or Poison then fine but not many consider Hair Metal real Metal. Other tan that Metallica was probably one of the only real metal bands to break big on the charts. Slayer and Pantera never really charted too well, and Sabbath was always an underground sleeper seller eventhough all the Rock fans know them. Now if you want to count Zeppelin and GnR (which many metal don't) then you have a couple bands, but there was never a time when Metal took over the music scene (execpet Hair Metal) like Grunge did in the early 90s, or like rap did recently.Edit- I just realized the title said Hard Rock as well and well in that case I'm certain a harder style of Rock will eventually make a comeback and shine on the charts, but hard core Metal has never shinmed to begin with. Metallica didn't break until the polished their sound up a bit, the popular Sabbath tunes aren't nearly has hard as some of the hard stuff, and other than that the closest thing to a Hard Rock comeback would be an AC/DC style band.
If you count the goofballs in the 80s like Motley
Metallica didn't break until the polished their sound up a bit
Quote from: Shallow on April 06, 2006, 07:45:26 AMIf you count the goofballs in the 80s like Motley i'll actually give motley some credit, i mean apart from vince neil's voice, they were actually a very talented bandtommy lee-excellent drummermick mars-had some awesome riffs and solos.....one fine piece of work that stands out is "god bless the children of the beast"nikki sixx-wrote ALOT of those songs hate their image, but you can't really deny them as artists on their core earlier albums
Justice didn't take off until after the Black Album hit it huge. It was 2x platinum before, not bad, but in the 80s boom, noithing special. Since the Black Album was released it reached 7x platinum. Even Master of Puppets ended up selling 6 million after the Black album. Plus, One was pretty polished in the beginning of the song, which probably hooked a lot of kids.Quote from: Don Jacob on April 08, 2006, 12:47:26 AMQuote from: Shallow on April 06, 2006, 07:45:26 AMIf you count the goofballs in the 80s like Motley i'll actually give motley some credit, i mean apart from vince neil's voice, they were actually a very talented bandtommy lee-excellent drummermick mars-had some awesome riffs and solos.....one fine piece of work that stands out is "god bless the children of the beast"nikki sixx-wrote ALOT of those songs hate their image, but you can't really deny them as artists on their core earlier albumsI don't hate Motley, I'm just saying that most don't consider them metal.
One was pretty polished in the beginning of the song, which probably hooked a lot of kids.