Metallica is the only Metal band in the entire genre's history to go Diamond.
diamond is the heaviest metal, so it checks out
It's also the best metal band, so, well deserved.
>>127627065Ah, that was a good meme
>>127627065based
>>127626927
>>127626927Yeah and it was their shitty sellout album for divorced alcoholic truckers. Call me when Possessed or Sodom go diamond
>>127627765cope, it's heavy metal whether your tr00 ass like it or not
>>127627065hard
nope Evanescence's Fallen went diamond too
>>127627765It's a good album although I wish they made something similar to AJFA again.
Hybrid Theory sold 12 million copies in the US alone, and Linkin Park has 20 million more monthly listeners than Metallica
Bullshit, you're clearly forgetting king diamond and diamond head, also that guitarist from pantera called diamond darrell
>>127630711>>127630758Not Metal
>>127630711>>127630758Not on Metal-Archives? Not Metal
>>127627742No, OP is correct. The self-titled album is the only true Metal album to go Diamond. Every other supposedly Metal album that went Diamond isn't Metal.
>>127630758Linkin park is pop music for sad upper middle class teenage boys
>>127631265Exactly. Not Metal.
>the only genres to go diamond are thrash (metallica), nu-metal (linkin park) and alt metal (evanescence)grim, the next one will probably be a metalcore album since thats currently the biggest "metal" subgenre
>>127631780At least Thrash is actually Metal.
>>127631786but it aint extreme enough we needed blasphemy or some proper bestial black to go diamond
>>127631815Not for me. When even Ozzy, Sabbath, Megadeth, Slayer, Anthrax, Maiden and Priest together couldn't match up against Metallica, that's saying something. It's easy to shit on Metallica because of everything they did after that album, but the fact is nobody else has reached their level.
>>127631844lol
>>127626927Makes sense. Metallica was inspired by Diamond Head.
Yeah and metal autists still seethe about it to this day.
>>127631178>Not on Metal-Archives? Not Metal
>>127631916BAZINGA
>>127631866Cope all you want. Metallica's Black Album is the only true one that went Diamond.
>>127632067you are not a metalhead, youre a poser faggotgo listen to your proto-sleep token aka "black album" and stop posting anymore
>>127632101Recognizing when one band stands out from the rest isn't the mark of a poser. You're just coping. I've listened to more than my share of Thrash, and while the Black Album is just stadium-friendly Heavy Metal with odd Thrash influences, the album's cultural significance underscores their impact.
>>127632217i dont give a fuck
>Start a metal band>But the word "metal" in your name>Becomes the biggest metal band ever, almost synonymous with the genreThis should unironically be used as an example of brilliant branding.
>>127627765>the seetheIt's gonna be ok, Dave
>>127632262I care because you care.
>>127632217>cultural significancesignificance for what? making metal even more palatable for retarded normgroids? unlike their 80s stuff it didn't influence any worthwhile stuffjust shut the fuck up drone faggot
>>127632269when i was a teenager and didn't listen to rock or metal and knew very little about it, i thought for years that metallica created the whole genre of music and gave it the name,cause the name 'metal' is in ''metallica'.I probably wasn't the only one thinking like that. But year Lars did a good job with the band name,even though he literally stole it from some magazine guy.
>>127632306It influenced people to buy their older records, which exposed them to real thrash and likely other bands like megadeth and slayer. Are you retarded or something?
>>127627765>divorced alcoholic truckerssounds based
>>127631081Nu metal >>127631178Rush is on metal archives. That alone completely discredits them>>127631265Exactly. Metal.
>>127632339wow what an amazing musical contribution. i'm sure they'll be talking about the importance of the black album in half a century cunt
crazy how much seethe the Black Album still generates after almost 35 years
>>127632310>i thought for years that metallica created the whole genrethey basically did, the previous stuff was basically hard rock
>>127632306>>127632357Just curious, what are your favorite Thrash albums? Me: >Cro-Mags - Best Wishes>Mekong Delta - The Music of Erich Zann>Bathory - Blood Fire Death (this is Thrash)>The Raunchous Brothers - Hail Metal....Destroy Faggotry>Slayer - Show No Mercy>Razor - Evil Invaders>Bound for Glory - The Fight Goes On>Artillery - By Inheritance >Carnivore - Carnivore (kinda Speed Metal, but whatevs...)>Hellbastard - Heading for Internal Darkness>Morbid Saint - Spectrum of Death>Overkill - Feel the Fire>Sacrilege - Behind the Realms of Madness>Sepultura - SchizophreniaI could go on, but this should be a good snapshot of where I am. How about you?
>>127632357They will. Hopefully you kys long before then and dont get to see it.
>>127632450cringe to dismiss NWOBHM just like that.
>>127632450absolutely falsemetallica was influential in cementing the thrash metal sound but heavy metal is much older than thrashthe first heavy metal band black sabbath, created the metal sound with their specific riffing sound combined with distorted guitar and darker lyrics.their heavier slower darker songs like title track on self titled and electric funeral directly created the doom metal subgenre (which further evolved with pentagram)after black sabbath, bands like motorhead and judas priest also appeared and cemented the metal sound even more, causing a movement called "new wave of british heavy metal" in the early 1980's, with bands like iron maiden coming out of it, as well as other great bands like exciter, angel witch, satan and diamond head.the nwobhm scene basically spawned speed metal, which was nwobhm played at a much faster speed, like for example exciter's first album, out of speed metal genres like us power metal and blackened speed (venom) appeared, as well as around the mid 1980's genres like thrash
>>127632303Evil Army - Evil ArmyDark Angel - Darkness DescendsDestruction - Eternal DevastationVoivod - Dimension HatrössPower Trip - Nightmare LogicDemolition Hammer - Epidemic of ViolenceKreator - Pleasure to KillDemoniac - So it GoesSlayer - Reign in BloodSadus - Swallowed in BlackDevastation - IdolatryBulldozer - IX
>>127632574meant for >>127632463
>>127632574Kreator is good, but for me, the Teutonic scene is best exemplified by Sodom, Holy Moses, Protector, Destruction, Mekong Delta, Deathrow, Poison and Sieges Even.
>>127632450>they basically did, the previous stuff was basically hard rocktotally wrong dude.
>>127626927Van Halen were called metal when they went diamond. The fact that people changed the meaning of the genre after the fact just shows that it is a meaningless term.Same with AC/DC and others I can't be bothered to check. You get the idea, OP is a fag.
>>127633038They're Hard Rock.
>>127633038>>127633070and don't forget def leppard. Best selling sex metal band
>>127633190Def Leppard stopped being Metal after On Through the Night.
>>127631265So metal then?
>>127633070>The fact that people changed the meaning of the genre after the fact just shows that it is a meaningless term.
>>127636465the meaning of the genre never changed, people were just using it incorrectly back then because they were dumpmap territory relation.
>>127636529Making up lies doesn't change reality. Metal is a marketing term and the mythology around it changed every decade form the 70s to the 2000s when it stopped doing anything new.Even Ozzy tried to jump on the Van Halen bandwagon by getting Randy Rhodes (who was nowhere near Eddie's level of genius).
>>127636571>Metal is a marketing termnah its a type of palm muting with distorted guitar
Based
>>127631916>inspired byYou mean stole riffs from?
>>127626927AHEM
>>127638397Not Metal. It's Glam/AOR
>>127638430cope
>>127638324All of rock is built off stolen riffs. Do you realize how fucked it all would've been if the boogie bassline was copywrited
>>127638430Hair METAL
>>127639667Some Hair bands are about as Metal as Eagles of Death Metal.
>>127631238
>>127641096>Eagles of Death MetalThe only decent death metal band.
>>127641165Very funneh.
