-The bolded statement is so true and I find it funny we have people in "Other Artists" category that have posts bashing mainstream bands LP was a mainstream band.
Well I'm guility of that too. See the problem I have with Mainstream Rock (Nu Metal, Pop Punk) etc is that people who only listen to mainstream rock, without doing any real digging underground for other bands, think that's all Rock music is sounds like and will be even more inclined to shun it, because Nu Metal isn't the best represention of metal likewise with Pop Punk not accurately representing Punk. That's why the metal fans and hardcore punk fans are always dissing mainstream bands. Hence the pejorative Mallcore/Mallpunk labeling. Linkin Park honestly is one of the few mainstream rock bands that I actually like. I tend to stay away from mainstream stuff anyway as most of it is from what I can see is **** anyway.
It's like Linkin Park seemed a lot cooler back when they released Hybrid Theory. They were all new and refreshing and the whole Nu Metal movement was at it's pinnacle. Then when Meteora came out the movement was on it's way down which may have effected the album sales as well. Also if I remember right Hybrid Theory made up a large chunk of the combined Worldwide album sales of Hybrid Theory and Meteora. Also I think downloading affects all album sales. Personally I prefer to have the albums. But I can't afford to buy the albums of all the bands I like. Plus I like to test bands out before I actually just buy the album.
Well Gun N Roses and Linkin Park are two different bands. Gun N Roses are a Legendary Metal band and Linkin Park is well...Linkin Park. They aren't in the same league. You really can't compare them. Of course the Metalheads are going to get itchy when a new album by them comes out. I think it's a lot easier to get lost in the mainstream really because people move on to the newest thing. Where as in a community, like the metal community, a lot of people tend to know about them and they aren't forgotten at least like mainstream bands are.
Linkin Park in my honest opinion gets old really fast probably because of the musical style and referring to their previous albums. All the songs do sound the same. After a while it becomes a bit tiresome at least to me. I don’t think it’s about being a hardcore Linkin Park fans it’s about getting a lot of people to listen to them. Of course the hardcore fans are going to buy their new album. The key is they have to appeal to the average person to become very successful in the mainstream anyway. Which is exactly what Hybrid Theory did.
Well in my opinion mallcore would be bands like:
