Voto:
"Meanwhile, METAL is alive and well and in constant evolution, grunge is dead, buried, and rotting for a long, long time!!!! And then, can you compare those pathetic, whiny, depressed grunge followers to the virility and life force of HEAVY METAL????? eh..." Grunge may indeed be dead as a genre, but it has been and continues to be the most influential genre in music over the last 15 years. I'm not sure to what extent Metal can be considered alive; it depends on your perspective: Metal experienced its birth and artistic peak in the '80s, but what have we had since the '90s? In the '90s, aside from "Painkillers" and the early albums of Doom/Gothic bands like Type O Negative, Paradise Lost, and a few others, we certainly didn't have any masterpieces. And the Metal scene of the last 8 years, that is, the 2000s, says it all: NU, POWER, and B-grade THRASH (at best, it's unsuccessful youth copies of Pantera and Metallica, reviving their old style while cutting a bit here, lightening up there, refining production, and presenting it all in a more modern, youthful, and accessible format). I would rather save the majority of the POST-METAL movement, which, however, I still generally don't consider on par with the classic and old works of Heavy and Thrash from the '80s. And in these 2000s, among the best things served to us by Metal stand out the works of Judas Priest and Maiden, that is, old guard bands, "old" groups that have resurfaced thanks to newfound inspiration after a not-so-great period, but, indeed, they are the "old" ones, not the young ones, who, in 70% of cases, dish out unlistenable stuff. In short: today Metal may be alive, but in general, it’s pretty awful. Grunge, on the other hand, may have been dead for a long time, but it died before it could become reheated and derivative, (like METAL did!), and in fact, I think it's a good thing that it has been dead for so long. Therefore, the memory of Grunge will always be positive, and considering the rubbish that circulates today, it will even be nostalgic (except for ignorant fools like you). The same would have gone for Metal if it had "died" in ’96. But no: indeed, the Metal landscape of the last 10 years, in general, (sure, as mentioned, there are some who stand out), sucks like locusts, and has indeed known a commercialization (understood here as "a qualitative decline in favor of sales and public response") and a DUMPING second only to that of Pop."
