AppleQueso wrote:Luke wrote:AppleQueso wrote:Let me put it this way, Luke. You calling Metallica "arena rock" or "hair metal" (especially with regard to the first three or four albums) is like people calling Django Unchained a spaghetti western.
I think I just died inside a little bit.
Okay, calling Metallica Hair Metal is outlandish, but I was trying to open things into interpretation. I still think they are "Arena Rock" 'cause as far as I know they aren't playing bar mitzvahs as of late, and they are one of the biggest commercial bands of all times.
I figured that'd get to you a little.
Honestly, if you want to call them arena rock today, I don't really have any issue with it. They've been a very different band since the early 90s. In the 80s, though, they were a thrash metal band, pure and simple.
I'd argue that they have been since ...And Justice for All, when they made it to the Top 10 on Billboard and nearly won a grammy.