my issue with a lot of metal is it is "angry but not political" which is a vector for people with shitty politics and too much aggression, whereas (good) punk and hardcore cannot separate the political from the anger, so chud fans are somewhat filtered out. also, solos are dumb.
my issue with a lot of metal is it is "angry but not political" which is a vector for people with shitty politics and too much aggression, whereas (good) punk and hardcore cannot separate the political from the anger, so chud fans are somewhat filtered out. also, solos are dumb.
Counterpoint: Solos are fun
It feels like the genre as a whole has kind of moved away from solos in the past decade or two, at least for the more extreme subgenres