what about all that power, neo-classical, prog and folk metal thats been going on in europe all these years?
wow i actually can buy sonata arctica and nightwish cds in the local cd store now... no more ordering those cd's and waiting for weeks. i'm serious a lot of those bands are beginning to make a north american impact. go out right now and buy a cd called withering heights: far from the madding crowd. Of course you've never heard of it but that is seriously the best metal album i have ever heard since all the bands started going crappy around 1995.
since 1995 i've been dissapointed by korn cause they brang out rap metal. i was dissapointed at mansons new stuff cause he bought his own hype. metallica went country and then tried to sound like nu-metal. bands like slipknot, papa roach etc came out and all they could do is strum extremely distorted power chords and whine about how ****ed up life is. even tool went too hippy! and i don't know what billy corgan was smoking when he formed zwan... i mean he must of been smoking some really potent stuff to have written that crap.
i was so unmoved by all this new popular music. and that rebellious music was now popular and worse all these wannabe rebellion puppets started becomming popular. i almost gave up on music and guitar playing cause i was so dissapointed.... until my friend introduced me to european metal.. and i becamed revolutionised as a musician.
i swear that stuff is the future of music!