Also, I've long expected a band with a queer take on hair metal to emerge and get popular - a group of trans women who look and sound like early Motley Crue? - but that sub-genre is so uncool that it's unlikely to happen.
When did "extreme metal" come to be seen as the standard for the genre? If you go back and look up old episodes of HEADBANGER'S BALL- and, yes, obviously MTV's idea of metal was very flawed - most of them are full of bands who make Ghost sound as abrasive as Deicide, but that was the average person's notion of metal even into the early 90s.
Also, I've long expected a band with a queer take on hair metal to emerge and get popular - a group of trans women who look and sound like early Motley Crue? - but that sub-genre is so uncool that it's unlikely to happen.
When did "extreme metal" come to be seen as the standard for the genre? If you go back and look up old episodes of HEADBANGER'S BALL- and, yes, obviously MTV's idea of metal was very flawed - most of them are full of bands who make Ghost sound as abrasive as Deicide, but that was the average person's notion of metal even into the early 90s.