You see that a lot in the guitar community. Anything new or that doesn’t fit a traditional, pre-existing mold is dismissed as inferior. Anything non-traditional and obviously skillful tends to draw hate from those same people.
I don’t see what could be qualified as non traditional in their music. It was run of the mill speed/power metal that was pretty common since the early 90s, or even the 80s if you stretch the definition a bit. Even from a technical standpoint they were fucking good but nothing ground breaking.
I always felt that the hate against them came from the fact that they became mainstream popular thanks to guitar hero while they were not particularly notable among their peers in the metal scene.
That’s the hate they got from within the metal community. I’m talking about the hate they got from the guitar community in general, which at the time was maybe 90% blues rock dads.
Oh OK that’s something i was completely unaware of.
So you’re telling me those supposed guitar fans had completely missed the whole guitar hero phase of the 80s, to the point that Dragonforce appeared “non-traditional” to them in the early 00s ? That’s funny and they sound like a fun community.
