Originally Posted by
aggroculture
Here's what I want more of:
Metal bands writing pop songs again (like Metallica, Nirvana, Korn, Rammstein, Pantera, Kyuss, Sabbath, Zeppelin). I want metal to dare to appeal to the masses again. I want big production not lo-fi rumbling.
Metal + hip-hop: yes, it ended badly with nu-metal, but I think this genre could rise again; think of Kanye's creativity + metal riffs (he already has some metal riffs): hip-hop's rapping + sampling + metal + operatic grandiosity. Death Grips-style mania, but with metal. Shabazz Palaces trippy weirdness with space rock. Trip-hop doom metal. The possibilities are endless.
Metal + electronica: why does it have to end with NIN, Broadrick, and Rammstein? Let's hear some hulking beats meshed with massive riffs again; throw a big pop chorus on there and you're in business. Let's look beyond djent and dubstep as both are stuck in their ruts.
Groove: metal needs to "get its groove back," get funky again, stop trying to be this macho bullshit pose and bring sexy back. Jazz is fine: let's put down the avant-skronk for a minute, and go big band, Duke Ellington and Count Basie rather than Miles Davis and John Zorn.
Basically I'd like metal to start talking to the other genres again. Merely talking to itself has become totally boring.