Grammy Museum is having a Metal exhibit?

[metalrulestv]

It sounds like they are finally making things right. Do you agree?

[The Strategos]

Re: Grammy Museum is having a Metal exhibit? Had a look on the website and it does look a good and well rounded exhibit - though I notice that it's only temporary!

[BlutAusNerd]

Re: Grammy Museum is having a Metal exhibit? Although it's nice that some of these bands are getting recognition on a large scale like this, it's just a mainstream institution highlighting some of metal's most mainstream bands that just about everyone knows about anyway, so it seems like a moot point.

[dilatedmind]

Re: Grammy Museum is having a Metal exhibit? Hopefully this type of thing creates some more metal fans and they get curious about some more niche bands. I have time for Metal noobs because everyone has to start somewhere. I guess thats one of the reasons for starting this site too! Get Metal Forum on the move with the Tapatalk app - \mf/

[BlutAusNerd]

Re: Grammy Museum is having a Metal exhibit? I understand that, but there have been how many crappy documentaries and shows that just keep asking the same old bands the same old questions? I'm not trying to take anything away from those bands and their contributions, but it's frustrating that metal is not a mainstream genre, yet most of it's listeners either still prefer to only listen to the mainstream artists, or simply don't know that there's so much more out there.

[The Strategos]

Re: Grammy Museum is having a Metal exhibit? That might be because a) Mainstream bands are often the better ones and It's so hard to find these bands!

[BlutAusNerd]

Re: Grammy Museum is having a Metal exhibit? I find that mainstream bands are often not as good as underground bands, but that's merely a matter of opinion and it isn't the point. The point is that metal is much larger than the world around us would like to believe, and it's upsetting that of the tens of thousands of metal bands in the world, only a select few get the spotlight when many more deserve it. I think that the mainstream world can only deal with metal as long as it's relegated to just a select few styles, either the melodeath/emocore crossover highlighted by the Metalocalypse/Guitar Hero/Hot Topic generation, or only the most popular older metal bands and hard rock bands highlighted by the VH1/hard rock radio generation. I'm frankly quite sick of these being the only styles of metal that cross the public's view, because while with more exposure I don't think it would gain many more fans, but it could at least be acknowledged and respected as being more than just "that angry phase you went through as a kid".

[The Strategos]

Re: Grammy Museum is having a Metal exhibit? Well said Sir! It's a good arguement, and I absolutely wish that their was more diversity of exposure. I mean, my first exposure to Symphonic metal was an untrumpeted play of a song I later found out to be Nigthwish's Nemo (one of Biff Byford's chosen songs on My Planet Rocks on the radio station Planet Rock) and Leaves' Eyes Njord, which at the time I bought partly because I thought it might have that unknown song (Nemo) which was driving me crazy and partly because I freaked out on the cover (so moody, so epic, so beautiful - longships and ravens !) After that, I needed internet blogs and YouTube to get anywhere.

[RelentlessOblivion]

Re: Grammy Museum is having a Metal exhibit? I admit I was somewhat stuck in my ways for a while only being interested in bands similar to those I already owned, I have broken this trend recently but really the only obscure bands I found on my own have been Angel Witch, Orphaned Land and recently Slaughter Lord, other then that I've been relying on the advice of my felow metal heads

[BlutAusNerd]

Re: Grammy Museum is having a Metal exhibit? That is one of the best parts about forums like this, the recommendations from fellow metalheads are far better than from any other source IMO, like metal magazines, internet puff reviews, and hipster promotions.

[The Strategos]

Re: Grammy Museum is having a Metal exhibit? Much as I love it, many metal magazines seem to prefer to promote Metalcore and not-really-metal guitar acts (I think Metalcore is metal ). This seems to me limiting the great variety of metal and not really promoting great bands. Besides, why pay for a magazine when you can find great bands in great chats here !