Been to Wacken recently and a friend and I were discussing what could be seen as the biggest name in metal currently.
Since we're "old", we could only come up with yesteryears titans.

Are there any more recent names that currently dominate the industry? Get played on day to day radio like our childhood bands did?

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[–] nazgul666@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (8 children)

I just checked the spotify listener count for some of the more popular bands. Looks like metallica still has about 27 million monthly listeners, so I would say they still dominate the industry, even if you could consider them being one of "yesterdays titans".

Newer ones might be Papa Roach (1993) with 13m listeners, or FFDP (2005) with 7m listeners.

So all in all i would say that the older bands do still have quite a lot of influence and listeners. Maybe metal is a difficult genre for newcomers?

[–] shapesandstuff 2 points 3 months ago

Fun to see Papa Roach (and gojira further up) brought up, as they were the two first bands to be announced for next wacken... Aaand a lot of my camp mates went "meh" and "who?"

Thats kinda what kicked this question off for me.

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