Kerrang - Where's The Metal Gone?

Big Kev

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I just watched the Kerrang top 50 of the noughties and I was absolutely appalled!!:mad:

I remember buying the first ever issue of the magazine and many more after that, but I haven't really watched the tv channel, so thought I'd give it a go.

Apart from a Slipknot song, the other 49 were rock at best, with the majority of them being pop songs in my book.

They're even having adverts for Kiss FM as well, when did Kerrang lose their roots??
 
Kerrang are no longer the Midlands purveyors of rock/metal/punk that they once used to be. Listen to Kerrang radio during the day (and those annoying twits Kristian and Lars in the evening) and it's all Killers, Florence and the Machine, etc..
 
randal24 said:
Kerrang are no longer the Midlands purveyors of rock/metal/punk that they once used to be. Listen to Kerrang radio during the day (and those annoying twits Kristian and Lars in the evening) and it's all Killers, Florence and the Machine, etc..
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At least they still have some taste, which is more than can be said for the majority of mediums through which music is pervade.
 
Don't get me wrong, I like some Killers songs and maybe even 1 or 2 of Florence's but I'm not sure they fit on what used to be a well renowned metal channel/station.
 
Big Kev said:
I just watched the Kerrang top 50 of the noughties and I was absolutely appalled!!:mad:

I remember buying the first ever issue of the magazine and many more after that, but I haven't really watched the tv channel, so thought I'd give it a go.

Apart from a Slipknot song, the other 49 were rock at best, with the majority of them being pop songs in my book.

They're even having adverts for Kiss FM as well, when did Kerrang lose their roots??
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Kerrang is rubbish, all the decent music went to Scuzz.
 
I remember watching Kerrang during my school holidays and it being all Deftones, RATM, System of a Down (and unfortunately, Creed and INME). I checked back a few years later (having lost Sky for a while) and found it was mostly Slipknot and My Chemical Romance. Was a bit distressing. Haven't watched it for a long time now.
 
Johnny Doom isn't too bad on a night I find. Better than the usual dross during the day.

I do like Simon James and Hill on the drive time, if I'm commuting to an alternate place of work, then I'll always have them on. But they have lost their rock roots, they've gone all mainstream which is what generally happens to the majority of radio stations. There needs to be another radio revolution!
 
hilly said:
I do like Simon James and Hill on the drive time, if I'm commuting to an alternate place of work, then I'll always have them on. But they have lost their rock roots, they've gone all mainstream which is what generally happens to the majority of radio stations. There needs to be another radio revolution!
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Lol, I'm the opposite; can't stand Kerrang's DJs, they are awful, but they play better music (in my own personal opinion) than most other stations. Funnily enough my musical tastes seem to have changed with theirs; early noughties I was into my Rammstein, Sum 41 et al, whereas now I'm much happier listening to the stuff which Kerrang are playing. I guess that, taking the radio/music channel listening population as a whole, they get better figures playing more mainstream stuff. A shame that there's no longer a metal station, but at the end of the day money talks!
 
Kerrang goes wherever the trends are. They were big into grunge, then nu-metal, then emo, now indie etc. etc.
 
reflux said:
Kerrang goes wherever the trends are. They were big into grunge, then nu-metal, then emo, now indie etc. etc.
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Which is why they are still in business. They started off life as an off-shoot of Sounds (the now defunct music paper) to cover NWOBHM. If they'd stayed there they would have collapsed within five years. I don't like them, but I understand why they do what they do.


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Meridian said:
Which is why they are still in business. They started off life as an off-shoot of Sounds (the now defunct music paper) to cover NWOBHM. If they'd stayed there they would have collapsed within five years. I don't like them, but I understand why they do what they do.


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Yeah. They're catering to the same demographic (15-25 I guess) so they have to change their output to match social trends. Music moves faster than nearly anything else.
 
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