Forget the botox or Restylane®, Metal music is the one getting a makeover. Remove some of the dark concepts and replace them with politics and other issues
says CNN:
More than three decades after Black Sabbath conjured images of the dark arts, heavy metal is growing up. The genre is increasingly incorporating social and political messages into its dense power chords.
Cattle Decapitation vocalist Travis Ryan said his San Diego band's mix of charging guitars and an animal rights message is drawing a diverse crowd that includes activists as well as traditional metal fans.
"We've always had a lot of crazy crossover going on," he said before a recent show. "It's a pretty diverse crowd we have. I've never known what to make of it."
But according to
Blabbermouth, metal heads are not happy including one from Houston:
Money rules our society, and determines what gets into the news, which is why metalheads across America are objecting to a recent spate of articles attempting to dominate their culture with status quo norms.
"I opened CNN.com and thought, 'Why aren't they letting us speak for ourselves'?" said Houston metalhead Steve Craig of the article "Metal gets a makeover: Bands focus on politics instead of parties." (Read the article at this location.) Craig, who plays in Houston metal band BAHIMIRON, said he felt that metal culture existed independently of the mainstream media, and was now being "normed" by the article.
"They're trying to make it like everything else," he said. "Accept the same way of thinking, which is that humanism and materialism are the only way to live. That's not true. If we believed that, we would be in punk or rock bands instead."
For you non-metalheads out there this article isn't entirely true. Go back to the 80s and listen to Megadeth and Metallica. Both took on issues that were political in nature. In the 90s look no further than our Brazilian friends, Sepultura. You're telling me Chaos A.D. wasn't political?
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