It still isn't

even most popular bands were still underground

And just because Metallica got to the size they are at doesn't mean they only care about money

now every wanna be is a metalhead

Lmao no they don't

I swear every band has made at least 1 song with the message the Music Industry is gay

This is just gatekeeping isn't it

i honestly never considered methylica a metal band lol

It is

IF YOU GET POPULAR YOU AIN'T METAL

just wasnt congruent with other metal bands i listened to as a kid

in any way

So listen to their old stuff @svarozhyc

"Metallica is not a metal band"
A million angered voices erupt from the depths of hell

They invented a metal genre

Metallica's first 5 albums were pretty influential in the metal world my dude 🤘

yeah called hard rock or smth

lol

Metallica didnt invent Metal

Thrash metal you spastic

but they helped make it even more mainstream

@Al Capwned a GENRE OF METAL

You retard

metallica was one of 1st thrash metal bands

Read nigga read

but it was slayer

who invented thrash

im not denying their influence i mean cmon everybody knows of them

Idk calling a band not metal when it has the actual word in the name is weird

Dave Mustaine is arguably the man who invented thrash

i couldnt be arsed to find out the true history of who invented what lol

slayer did their thing before metallic a

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Being first doesn't make you "the most" of anything

its not most

it just started a thing

It does make you that thing imao

and behind the iron curtain we had https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IU-wsYObAQ

Slayer and Metallica were founded at roughly the same time.

im pretty sure when scientist makes discovery its his discovery

But Metallica got their first record out before them, and their first demos