Is metal music becoming popular again in the US?

In brief: metal never went away. Also, for context, the more popular metal becomes, the less metal that metal is, as a general trend. read more

Also, for context, the more popular metal becomes, the less metal that metal is, as a general trend. So, many of the things marketed as metal or perceived as metal within the popular culture are not actually metal. read more

One is that many of the newer subgenres of metal such as the New Wave of American Heavy Metal (Unearth, Shadows Fall), Swedish death metal (Entombed, Dismember), and goth metal (Tristania, Type O Negative), relative to other subgenres, have not become popular, often even within the metal community itself. read more

The heavy metal sound represents raw power, edginess, efficiency, brute force, being in control and masculinity in contrast to “lighter” and “softer” genres of music. It also reflects the ambiguous nature of the Scandinavian soul. read more