RE: The concept of "selling out" in music - Let's discuss it
June 27, 2015 at 2:17 pm
(This post was last modified: June 27, 2015 at 2:24 pm by Alex K.)
I'm pissed at Mikael Åkerfeldt for not liking death metal any more and going all hipster prog rock on us instead. Yet that doesn't qualify as sell out because he surely alienated more people than he won anew - and I don't think he cares. Still, I'm pissed, because they were a world class prog death band, and now are a second rate 70s rock band.
I don't hate the Metallica blues rock either, I like it actually. I just can't get very excited about it.
Sellouts... well I think TYR, whom I completely adore for their earlier stuff, are dangerously close to it. Ever since they went on 70000 tons of metal etc. they keep pushing for simpler and simpler songs and less and less interesting structures and harmony to the point that they now sound like derivative power metal to me.
I don't hate the Metallica blues rock either, I like it actually. I just can't get very excited about it.
Sellouts... well I think TYR, whom I completely adore for their earlier stuff, are dangerously close to it. Ever since they went on 70000 tons of metal etc. they keep pushing for simpler and simpler songs and less and less interesting structures and harmony to the point that they now sound like derivative power metal to me.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
