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Isshin98 t1_j284ej2 wrote

Last time I checked there are still hundreds of metal and rock concerts/festivals selling out every year, so no.

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youwontfindout223 OP t1_j2a9d5a wrote

Yeah but can you name one band that started in the past 10 years that’s as regarded as highly as the other bands I listed in the post? I’d imagine most if not all of those concerts selling out are from bands formed 15+ years ago. My thought was that record companies aren’t looking for rock bands anymore because they don’t sell like pop/rap do these days.

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Isshin98 t1_j2aejko wrote

That's your own extremely narrow definition of what's "commercially viable" if you exclude all bands that didn't exist 10 years ago. Clearly it's still commercially viable for big rock bands to go on tour and continue making music, otherwise it wouldn't happen. Perhaps a better question would be why there haven't been any bands that were founded 10-15 years ago that grew as big as the ones you mentioned in that amount of time? Probably more of a topic for a scientific paper than Reddit if you ask me.

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youwontfindout223 OP t1_j2afbia wrote

The question, I guess in a roundabout way, meant to ask if it’s viable for record companies to invest in new rock bands. Seems as though the answer is no. There are big bands from 15-20 years ago that are on tour obviously doing well but it seems as though record companies do not want to invest in new rock bands as evidence by the fact that no one has been able to name a new rock band from the past 10 years that’s well known, doing well commercially, or charting.

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Isshin98 t1_j2aj6fg wrote

If by "viable" you only count bands that reached Metallica levels, then you already answered your own question and this thread was completely unnecessary.

You won't have to do much research to find dozens of rock and metal bands in the last 15 years with record label contracts. If it wasn't "viable", they wouldn't exist. Hell, you know that contracts could also be cancelled if bands formed before that stopped being viable? But if you're already going into this topic closed-minded you're just wasting your time.

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youwontfindout223 OP t1_j2aju2a wrote

Ok, name them. That’s what I’m asking. If there are new rock bands that formed in the past 10 years that have achieved high commercial success to the point of say the top 100 bands from the 90s to say 2005, what are their names?

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Isshin98 t1_j2akq4e wrote

You can literally look up the Wikipedia article with the stupid amount of record labels that have specialized in rock and metal music and pick any band that has released an album with them in the past 15 years.

Also you constantly narrowing down your definition of commercial success doesn't help your point.

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youwontfindout223 OP t1_j2al15b wrote

Well I guess seeing as you can’t name a band either we know the answer

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Isshin98 t1_j2alx41 wrote

It literally takes you two seconds to Google and get a way more complete response than I can ever give you. But if you insist me doing the work for you, here are some bands that I've seen at sold out shows at quite large venues the past few years:

Rammstein, Sabaton, Amon Amarth, Parkway Drive, Nightwish, Trivium, Mastodon, Gojira, Arch Enemy, Behemoth, Powerwolf, and more.

Doubt you'll care much since you already went into this with defined answer.

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youwontfindout223 OP t1_j2aypz8 wrote

Yeah dude all those bands you listed are like 20 years old or older…

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Isshin98 t1_j2b00sk wrote

Like I said, you'd better have been off asking why rock bands aren't growing that big anymore. But your question was if that type of music is still commercially viable, which it clearly is. Pop music being dominated by other types of artists doesn't change that.

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