I have never heard anything from Metallica. I mean, I probably have, I just don’t know. Basically I don’t care about music in the slightest.

Man with a brain.

Meanwhile, Machine Head just broke up

A large number of metal bands are overrated. Their names are like someone had a stroke and came up with a word salad.

Radiohead and The Beatles are more overrated.

Thats your opinion.

i was thinking Metallica was just in Simpsons, didn't know they where real.

What they did with metal is revolutionary and influence the the genre a lot.I don’t disagree that they are a little overrated, but being the band that everyone associates with your category of music, is a big achievement.

Originally posted by Unfix@ble:

What they did with metal is revolutionary and influence the the genre a lot.I don’t disagree that they are a little overrated, but being the band that everyone associates with your category of music, is a big achievement.

Yeah... in the process of selling themselves out. Death Metal was revolutionized better by bands like Death, Cynic, Gorguts, Cannibal Corpse, Suffocation, At the Gates, Entombed, and others, that didn't look like a bunch of sellouts.

Originally posted by Unfix@ble:

What they did with metal is revolutionary and influence the the genre a lot.I don’t disagree that they are a little overrated, but being the band that everyone associates with your category of music, is a big achievement.

I agree with this. I like them. I wouldn't say they're my favorite, but I definitely respect them and can acknowledge they're very talented and did a lot for the genre. People who say otherwise are deluding themselves.

Originally posted by Doomslaya':

Originally posted by Unfix@ble:

What they did with metal is revolutionary and influence the the genre a lot.I don’t disagree that they are a little overrated, but being the band that everyone associates with your category of music, is a big achievement.

Yeah... in the process of selling themselves out. Death Metal was revolutionized better by bands like Death, Cynic, Gorguts, Cannibal Corpse, Suffocation, At the Gates, Entombed, and others, that didn't look like a bunch of sellouts.

Except Metallica came forth as a band before any of those. They were one of the first bands to explore their genre and were (in my opinion of course) the best (and most unique) at it with both the writing and sound. There's a reason they got so popular back then. While it does suck that they did seem to sell out at one point, they later returned to their initial sound.

Not only that, but Entombed was influenced by Slayer, who admit Metallica is on a "much larger level". Cannibal Corpse has flat out said they were partially influenced by Metallica. Just because they made some music that was terrible (for me personally), doesn't mean they weren't revolutionary.

Editing to add that I don't like the Beatles, but I can see how influential they are and how they changed music. I wouldn't go out and call them overrated, because I can respect what they've done.

Overrated? No, but there is alot better stuff out there.

Originally posted by Annabel Lee:

You are brainwashed from 2005 but you’re still right.

I wish I was 13 again. But I'm 31 and ½

Metallica are overrated. But the most overrated band on the planet is Coldplay.

It's all subjective, isn't it. My musical taste strays pretty far from the beaten path, and I think most mainstream music sounds the same, and science would agree with me...
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0115255#pone.0115255.s001

But most people like familiar music, and that's probably fine. Besides, we'll always have bands like Thank You Scientist to rescue us...
https://youtu.be/ME83cxIG5fA
Anyway, Metallica isn't as overrated as Slayer. Man, those fans are really intense about a band with only 3 songs (fast, faster, and Reign in Blood).

I used to like metallica till they sued napster cause they got greedy.

Originally posted by HEKATE:

but.. they wrote enter sandman...

They also wrote St Anger...