*Slowly killing music
It's one in a thousand for a band to make it big nowdays, and by big I mean big only to the genre's audience.
In order to become mainstream, you either need to fuck the right guys, or be a pawn of your manager/promoting companies, meaning they will make you look how they want you to look, and give you already written songs to "sing". In other words, you will be much closer to a model than a singer..