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>>12459136
>the metal genre is in enough trouble as it is

eh? What kind of trouble is this? Financial? Is metal as a whole going to declare bankruptcy?

>It's arguable whether such an artificial (but also invigorating) band emerging on the scene like this would help or hurt the genre.
>I lean towards the latter.

They're a gateway band.

I remember listening to a slayer cassette tape when I was younger but like I said that didn't really click with me at first.

A couple of years later, the whole nu-metal thing blew up and THEN I found some bands that I could get into.

Looking back, of course it's all juvenile mainstream bandwagon stuff that any true metalhead would label as being fake metal, but it's what led me to "real" metal eventually. People my age got into metal because of bands like Marilyn Manson, Papa Roach, Korn, POD, Linkin park, System of a Down, etc.

People who are older than me probably got into it around the time that Hair/Glam metal was king like WASP and early Motley Crue.

These days I'm sure a lot of kids will get into metal because of Babymetal and there's nothing wrong with that. It's free publicity for other bands. I was into Maximum The Hormone (Japanese metal band) about 10 years ago and when I check out their videos on youtube now so many comments are people saying how they found about them through clicking random videos after watching Babymetal.

Even for jaded old metalheads like myself, I was getting sick of it after a decade or so and started listening to other genres instead, but listening to Babymetal brought me back into the metal world again.