EveningStar

I think You being from the USA explains a lot, since there are some cultural differences. Both the guy from powermetalsucks and me are from Europe (although he is from western Europe, me from southern). A LOT of people listen to extreme stuff (although it is sometimes really not metal, hence "metal" with the quotation marks, like some grindcore stuff or predominantly hardcore influenced death/"metal"-core) just to look "edgy" or "different". Those are guys who would refer to anything less aggressive than Slayer as "hard rock" and to most traditional metal as "(classic) rock". Also, their average age is around 16. I am NOT writing this to be dismissive of extreme metal fans, it is just that almost any more extreme metal concert (with notable exception of black metal) would have above average number of these people. Of course, there are similar idiots in my generation. There are quite a few guys I known (either personally or online) that pejoratively refer to anything made before NWOBHM as "dated 70s stuff", completely oblivious to the fact that most of the younger people would consider both Iron Maiden or Motley Crue or Venom as "dated" as 70s Sabbath or Heep. Powermetalsucks guy even touches upon these in few of his articles (although not as prominently). I agree. His tone is actually quite close to "elitists" on sites such as Metal Archives (and previously Spirit of Metal or even metal-related RateYourMusic topics), who love to use words such as "mellow", "commercial", "shallow", "soft". They are even deliberately using wrong (softer) subgenres (I am NOT the one who first discovered this, but a guy who makes some great HM/HR/AOR-related lists on RYM pointed it out to me a couple of months ago): "AOR"/"melodic rock"/"classic rock"/"rock" for "hard rock" (sometimes even borderline metal), "glam rock" for "hair/sleaze/glam metal" (the have in rules "Glam rock (ex: Poison, Ratt, Whitesnake, Steel Panther)" apparently unaware that "glam rock" has entirely different meaning), or even "pop" for some bands ("Pop with metal elements (ex: Amaranthe, Babymetal, Necronomidol)"). He parodies it in using the term "power metal" for pretty much anything.

And you have just proven him right 🤣🤣 🤣🤣 Btw, he is just imitating the style of "metal" purists, like the members of the "metal" archives and similar sites. And he is making fun of the fact that almost all hard rock fans (including traditional metal, like NWOBHM) are usually hard working people that listen to music to relieve themselves from everyday stress. On the other hand, most of the "metal" fans are either teenagers or 30-year old university students that never worked a day in their entire lives.