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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
everyone from sabbath to eyehategod to dio to maiden to even the Melvins are quite theatrical.
the point being that , unlike in punk music, metal and people in metal bands want to be seen s larger than life, "metal gods" in a sense, which is theatrical.
honest to goodness punk bands and many indie bands, especially the old guard, made it a point to NOT be theatircal, to let everyone know that the dudes on stage were JUST LIKE YOU, the dudes in the audience, and that anyone could get up and rock. metal is different in that snese, and that is what I call theatrical.
good musi c is good music though.
reign in blood!
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eyehategod theatrical? because they all did heroine or how?
i said "not all", but certainly a good chunk. but most death metal and thrash bands, stoner and doom bands made the point of being exactly like their fans.
i'm certainly not sure how motörhead, mastodon or converge are theatrical.
granted many of these present parallelisms (in motörhead's case) and influence from hardcore punk to strip the shit down, but still; i can't really see someone say a band like megadeth or obituary or kyuss are/were theatrical.
besides, most punks dressed up to call attention upon themselves, even though the line between audience and artists was nulled, lookswise. the only difference between metal bands and punk bands is the "larger than life" persona you talked about.
i agree wholeheartedly with the "good music is good music" part.