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Originally Posted by: chucklivesoninmyheartCobain influenced metal?Never heard Slayer stating him as an influence or anything...do you mean a few mainstream bands?[/quote]
It's pretty simple; by killing off the 80's Cheese Metal stuff, Cobain (and the rest of the Alternative scene) forced Metal back underground where it got much, much better.

By putting an end to the "Spandex" stuff and giving the Slayers out there a chance to flourish, I think he did the whole genre a huge service.


[QUOTE=chucklivesoninmyheart]Death metal and its subgenres have very devout fans who will not hesitate to weed out posuers and are of the few genre's that are actually objective to their own music and very critical.I can't say the same for punk,grunge,alternative e.c.t.Too much tolerance in those genre's for posuers and crappy bands/music that are encouraged to continue(to suck).

You'll have a pretty tough time getting an old school Melvins fan to listen to Nirvana and you'll have a pretty tough time trying to get somebody who was into the initial Alternative offerings to listen to the tripe that came later.

It's like trying to say that Possessed fans, Emperor fans, Slipknot fans, and Godsmack fans are all the same group of people.