Sum 41 > Metallica and ACDC

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Here is your attention. I like Sum 41, but don't be obtuse.

Metallica is a band that released a handful of great albums 30-40 years ago. Their last 25 years or so have been utterly unremarkable.

Sum 41 is a band that gets a ton of hate by gatekeepers for no good reason. Their last two albums were both heavy as shitte, and awesome. Their early albums went back and forth between pop punk and classic metal, but they’ve gotten heavier with age. The only “bad” album, in my opinion, is “Screaming Bloody Murder”, which is basically their St. Anger. So, yeah, Sum 41 had only one bad album while Metallica had several.

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Their songs are more fire. The Hell Song, Fatlip, etc. They have catchier tunes and don't have some stupid arse cookie monster screaming at the top of his lungs. Sorry, but 80s metal was cringe as hell!

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Anyone who uses words like “fire” and “cringe” is pretty cringe themselves. Why don’t you go listen to some Sum bangers instead of posting?

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released a handful of great albums 30-40 years ago

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By "a handful", you mean 5 in 8 years? As in, a crushing catalogue to be envied by almost everyone else?

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Their last 25 years or so have been utterly unremarkable.

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Since you said "or so", I'll include Load. Load, Reload, Garage Inc. and Death Magnetic are all great.

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but I can assure you, I understand 80’s metal.

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How many pentagrams have you carved into your own flesh? How many animals sacrificed?

Their last album was pretty explicitly anti-Trump, but their most political album, “Chuck” was a masterpiece. It was anti-consumerism and anti-war, but done so in a subtle manner. If one was listening to it in 2004, they’d understand it to be a critique of the Bush Administration and the War on Terror, but listening today, it could just as easily apply to the current regime.

Not all political music is bad.
All to Blame

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How many pentagrams have you carved into your own flesh?

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I long ago lost count. I was raised on Iron Maiden, Ozzy, Dio, Judas Priest, and early Metallica. I don’t play metal as a guitarist mostly because I am limited by my own abilities on the instrument. Heck, “Number of the Beast” was one of the first songs I tried to learn. A few songs I’ve written definitely straddle the line between blues and metal or post hardcore and metal. A lot of my music wouldn’t sound out of place in the 80’s metal scene, albeit no gated reverb snares or synths allowed. Heck, one song I’ve been performing lately is heavier than almost anything made in the 80’s, yet today, metal posers and gatekeepers look down on what I do. It’s so pointless trying to please people like that.

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JasonDBlaha

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^ loves Nickelback and Imagine Dragons

I think some do it to try to make their post history look board diverse so after a short time when they go in hard on the real target it won’t look as obvious.