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11 Modern Metal Bands Destined for Classic Rock Greatness
Posted on 7/21/14 at 12:06 pm
Posted on 7/21/14 at 12:06 pm
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If music history has taught us anything, it’s that many of today’s heavy metal stars will probably be tomorrow’s classic rock legends. Just think back 30 years, when Metallica couldn’t get a whiff of radio airplay despite filling concert halls around the country, and you’ll understand what we mean. So we asked ourselves which current heavy metal bands seem fated to make this transition and came up with the following alphabetical list of 11 Modern Metal Bands That Are Destined for Classic Rock Greatness. That’s right, this one goes to 11 – enjoy!
Submitted for your discussion.
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1) TOOL
2) The Sword
3) OPETH
4) Monster Magnet
5) Mastodon
6) Lamb of God
7) Ghost
8) Dream Theatre
9) Down
10) Baroness
11) Avenged Sevenfold
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Tool
Maybe the greatest compliment one can pay Tool is that the band has remained wholly unique, immediately recognizable, and impossible to categorize into any one style of music over the course of their two-decade-plus career. Not even metal, but we’ll claim them just the same – ditto future classic rock. Suffice to say that, like Led Zeppelin and precious few bands in rock history, Tool has created music that other bands have little hop of replicating, which would explain the scarcity of cover versions attempted through the years.
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Posted on 7/21/14 at 12:08 pm to JohnZeroQ
quote:i didn't know the rest of the world was so high on these guys. i really like them.
2) The Sword
Posted on 7/21/14 at 12:09 pm to JohnZeroQ
Queens of the Stone Age are better than any of those bands
Posted on 7/21/14 at 12:12 pm to JohnZeroQ
Dream Theater won't be because their music isn't accessible enough to ever be "classic rock". They'll continue to be a niche group that is only really known about and lauded among metal fans.
Posted on 7/21/14 at 12:34 pm to JohnZeroQ
Tool and A7X already get tons of radio play. I've heard Mastodon a few times but don't think they'll ever break through to the mainstream. Not sure why The Sword aren't bigger than they are now. They have a nice, easilly accesible classic rock sound. The other bands aren't radio friendly at all.
Posted on 7/21/14 at 1:42 pm to JohnZeroQ
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2) The Sword
They seem like the odd man out. I don't have anything against them, saw them in concert a while back. Considering they were opening for another band, just seems a bit pre-mature to say they are destined for rock greatness.
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11) Avenged Sevenfold
Too low IMO. Their last few releases have really proven that they have come into their own.
Posted on 7/21/14 at 2:58 pm to JohnZeroQ
First of all, the premise of the article is absolutely absurb to imply that simply because enough time has passed that a metal or hard rock group can now fit the category of 'classic rock'. As I have tried to explain before to other people, classic rock has a particular sound and is associated with an era that ranges anywhere from the late '60s to the '90s. I give some leeway on the end of the time frame because I believe that bands such as The Black Crowes and post-Mother's Milk Red Hot Chili Peppers can easily fall into this category based on their sound, style, and influences.
The Metallica example is absolutely dreadful. Just because 98.1 and other stations choose to play Metallica on occasion doesn't mean that the Four Horsemen are suddenly classic rock. The entire reason that Metallica began to receive airplay on The Eagle was due to the desolvement of 104.1 The X and Guaranty Broadcasting's attempt to absorb the audience from that sation (hence why you'll hear grunge, prog, and alternative rock bands such as Nirvanna, Radiohead, and Tool on 98.1 these days). Also, note the Metallica songs being played on most 'classic rock stations'. It's typically the band's watershed moment of their career (The Black Albumor Metallica). Obviously, this is when the band began to steer from a more agressive and thrash-based sound to something more along the lines of radio-friendly metal and hard rock. Yes, you might hear "Fade to Black" played every now and then but keep in mind that the song is a ballad that actually received a fair amount of radioplay when it was originally released.
I still don't hear tracks like "The Four Horsemen", "Ride the Lightning", "For Whom the Bell Tolls", "Sanitarium", or "Blackened" played on any 'classic rock' stations. If the idea that heavier bands become viewed as classic rock once a certain amount of time has passed then we would be hearing Slayer, Anthrax, Megadeth, Overkill, Testament, Pantera, Sepultura, etc. played on mainstream radio. However, the fact remains that none of these bands have been featured on mainstream radio despite being highly respected among the metal community. Why? Because none of these bands ever truly departed from their extreme/thrash metal style of play and consequently remained too 'edgy' for most audiences.
The same could be said about the prog rock bands of the '70s. You will be hard-pressed to hear anything off of Genesis' first five albums, King Crimson, early Yes, or Emerson Lake and Palmer on the radio. Again, it's because this sort of music isn't highly accesible for a widespread radio audience.
As much as I love all of the bands listed in this article, I'm willing to bet that pretty much every one of these bands will never fit the label of 'classic rock' and sure as hell will never be played on mainstream radio. Randy Blythe (Lamb of God) and Mikael Åkerfeldt's (Opeth) vocals are far too harsh and inaccesible for most music fans.
The Metallica example is absolutely dreadful. Just because 98.1 and other stations choose to play Metallica on occasion doesn't mean that the Four Horsemen are suddenly classic rock. The entire reason that Metallica began to receive airplay on The Eagle was due to the desolvement of 104.1 The X and Guaranty Broadcasting's attempt to absorb the audience from that sation (hence why you'll hear grunge, prog, and alternative rock bands such as Nirvanna, Radiohead, and Tool on 98.1 these days). Also, note the Metallica songs being played on most 'classic rock stations'. It's typically the band's watershed moment of their career (The Black Albumor Metallica). Obviously, this is when the band began to steer from a more agressive and thrash-based sound to something more along the lines of radio-friendly metal and hard rock. Yes, you might hear "Fade to Black" played every now and then but keep in mind that the song is a ballad that actually received a fair amount of radioplay when it was originally released.
I still don't hear tracks like "The Four Horsemen", "Ride the Lightning", "For Whom the Bell Tolls", "Sanitarium", or "Blackened" played on any 'classic rock' stations. If the idea that heavier bands become viewed as classic rock once a certain amount of time has passed then we would be hearing Slayer, Anthrax, Megadeth, Overkill, Testament, Pantera, Sepultura, etc. played on mainstream radio. However, the fact remains that none of these bands have been featured on mainstream radio despite being highly respected among the metal community. Why? Because none of these bands ever truly departed from their extreme/thrash metal style of play and consequently remained too 'edgy' for most audiences.
The same could be said about the prog rock bands of the '70s. You will be hard-pressed to hear anything off of Genesis' first five albums, King Crimson, early Yes, or Emerson Lake and Palmer on the radio. Again, it's because this sort of music isn't highly accesible for a widespread radio audience.
As much as I love all of the bands listed in this article, I'm willing to bet that pretty much every one of these bands will never fit the label of 'classic rock' and sure as hell will never be played on mainstream radio. Randy Blythe (Lamb of God) and Mikael Åkerfeldt's (Opeth) vocals are far too harsh and inaccesible for most music fans.
Posted on 7/21/14 at 10:43 pm to JohnZeroQ
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1) TOOL
2) The Sword
yes
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3) OPETH
4) Monster Magnet
5) Mastodon
6) Lamb of God
7) Ghost
8) Dream Theatre
9) Down
10) Baroness
11) Avenged Sevenfold
rofl
Posted on 7/22/14 at 8:07 am to JohnZeroQ
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tomorrow’s classic rock legends.
none of these bands listed will be "classic rock legends" because they aren't classis rock. TOOL is essentially the only one to receive consistent mainstream radioplay over the past 20 years and that's mainly due to "sober", their biggest breakthrough "hit" song.
argument could be made for monster magnet as well, with their "space lord mother" song. that's had radioplay, but not nearly as much as "sober" if I would guess.
the format for radio isn't the same as it was in the 80's like the article alludes to. times have changed.
This post was edited on 7/22/14 at 8:10 am
Posted on 7/22/14 at 9:37 am to JohnZeroQ
That list 100% sucks.
Except for Tool, and maybe Dream Theater, I can't see any of those bands considered 'classic rock greatness'.
Ever.
Except for Tool, and maybe Dream Theater, I can't see any of those bands considered 'classic rock greatness'.
Ever.
Posted on 7/23/14 at 12:42 am to JohnZeroQ
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2) The Sword
Should be shown more love on here
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3) OPETH
Some of the most beautiful music I've ever heard but the growls will put a lot of people off.
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5) Mastodon
Solid
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11) Avenged Sevenfold
smh....
Posted on 7/23/14 at 11:53 am to JohnZeroQ
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7) Ghost
Of the debbil
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