Edit: I don’t know what I was thinking when I made this post, all music is pretty good
Same, except it was the local trve metal scene instead of punk. “If it ends in -core, I don’t like” was a common thing to say, and anything pop/rap/hip-hop wasn’t considered to be music at all. Even bigger metal acts, like Metallica, weren’t popular because they had “sold out.” The NWOBHM was all I lived for in the early 2010s.
got really tired of the “-core” haters, they seem to get upset only at the naming convention because hardcore influences often make a subgenre even heavier
like have you ever heard of mathcore?? that shits peak, its one of the noisiest subgenres i know AND it has hardcore influence
gatekeepers can stay mad
It took me a while, but when I started getting into death metal, that’s what paved the road to hardcore genres for me. And I’m so glad that happened because I would’ve missed out on so much great music, so many fun nights in the pit, and some really cool shows with, like, thirty people there.
Oh don’t get me started on “Sell outs” I’ve always been very adjacent to the metal scene but had no idea that the same argument applied. I think what opened up my tastes more was when I got into synthwave/Electronica massively about 10 years ago and branched out from there.
