The Founders Are Dead. This Is Metal’s New Era?!

Cliff😢

The masters are still alive though. Karl Sanders, Nergal, and Henri Sorvali are still at it. And as long as Myrkur continues to carry the torch metal will be okay.

For me it was the loss of Dio , the voice of my childhood.

Most of these new metal bands are formulaic and stale, a rehash of what's already been done.
There's no spirit in the metal like there used to be.
Move forward, sure.
Move forward with Black Sabbath and AC/DC, Rush and Primus, Priest and Maiden….
You KNOW it's NOT AI.

Almost
Everything since about 2010 is counterfeit, false and artificial, with autotune, vocal enhancement, looped and programmed computer sequences.
Listen to the Ummagumma album from Pink Floyd.
Listen to Rush 2112.
Iron Maiden Powerslave.
You know it's authentic.
FACT.

When family betrays a person, and that person is a hardcore metal fan, the musicians become more important, the lyrics of the songs and the emotions expressed in through the instruments are more honest and real than duplicitous folks who share one's DNA. I feel more kinship with artists whom I have never met than I do with estranged family members who have nothing to offer but stress and betrayal. The music I listen to resonates with my thoughts and emotions and my view of reality. My family however, they only ever sought to tell me how I feel, what I think, and what I am supposed to value. I am 52yo and have identified more with metal than with my family since age 12. Now my five adult children, they are all metalheads. We all cried when Ozzy went to the other side. Just today I cried for Dolly Parton, for what a great lady she was, her courage, resiliance, and compassion. She was so talented and such an awesome person that she did a duet with Rob Halford. Anyone could draw inspiration in their own life from the life she lived. But life goes on when the ones we love pass on. New life is born. My dog had puppies in July, and the boy I kept from the litter I named him Cliff Burton. So, yeah, celebrity deaths, particularly among metal artists and metal fans, can be quite impactful even decades later, because of what extraordinary people they were in life. 🤘❤️‍🔥🤘🫀🤘🖤🤘

Heavy grunge isn't heavy metal?

Conway Twitty, best known for his appearance in Family Guy

To quote "The heaviest show in the universe": Japanese metal slaps harder than your metal!
In many ways he's right. They've reviwed the classic 80's stuff, but also added some extra.
And no: I'm not referring to Babymetal, though they opened the door for many other acts.
I thought classic melodic metal was in stasis, but then I heard Lovebites.

I don't get why anyone would care if a celebrity stranger died naturally.

Alot of ppl say seperate the music from the person, and I take that to the limit.

Listen you can't point to just the singer and the corporation and say the end here, Halford is alive and so is KK downing and Glen Tipton, Tony Iommi who is arguably the most important man in metal is still alive and well and if he dies that's where the genre now moves on without it's founder in the same way Freddie Mercury dying represented the beginning of the end for the arena rock bands of the 80's and the turn to Grunge and alternative that companies wish they could have convinced us all was our doing.

Cronos, Lemmy, Ozzy, they're important but only one and a half of those is a founder, Lemmy can say he is because he was there BEFORE rock n roll let alone heavy metal or hard rock, Ozzy was in the first band but he's a blues singer and the real driving force of that band was and still is as of this comment Tony Iommi and as long as him, Halford, Downing, Tipton, Wolf from Accept and maybe King Diamond if you wanna go with the first wave of black metal, you're not really in danger of any era ending just yet, you're just in danger of watching very old guys pass on unfortunately.

Iommi and the three members of Judas Priest would probably be the one's that guarantee you the 1st age of metal ends.

R.I.P. Conrad Lant! As well as , Ozzy and Lemmy! At least we still have Bruce and Rob! I understand exactly what your saying about Ozzy, I feel the same way , and it was the first death that made me cry .

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I have read "GEN-X was 35 by the age of 15. At the age of 50 they are still 35." I credit being a Metalhead for why time literally stops in some ways. And recently I saw COC on tour for the current album, not one person was under the age of "The copier machine is jammed up again, we cannot do our jobs!" I thought, "So this is Dad Rock now? I'm good! and there dances Woody Weatherman, one of the OGs himself, still having what looked like the time of his life."

i once wiped the chalkboard with a crumpled piece of paper. It sounded way better than Lemmy trying to sing. Lemmy and Ozzy are 2 of the finest examples why metalheads are tone deaf morons ⚠

The good news is great metal is still being made by younger bands that popped up in the past 10-15 years….. Blackbraid, Jinjer, and Worm are some of my favorites to name a few. I have hope for the next generation of bands for sure!