METALLICA Is Most Influential Rock Band Of Last 30 Years

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METALLICA has been voted the most influential rock group of the last 30 years by the readers of the British magazine Kerrang!

METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich said: "it gives me a very warm and fuzzy feeling that Kerrang! magazine have voted METALLICA as the band that most changed their lives.

"I remember the first issue of the magazine in 1981. I had made a pilgrimage to England because I was obsessed with the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal. I travelled all over the country and that first issue accompanied me everywhere."

Lars also paid tribute to IRON MAIDEN, which came in at No. 3 on the list. He said: "IRON MAIDEN have been the blueprint for everything that we have ever wanted to do."

The poll is included in the next issue of Kerrang! magazine, which celebrates 30 years since the magazine launched in June 1981.

The most influential rock groups of the last 30 years, as voted by the readers of Kerrang!:

01. METALLICA
02. GREEN DAY
03. IRON MAIDEN
04. SLIPKNOT
05. MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE
06. LINKIN PARK
07. BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE
08. BLINK 182
09. OZZY OSBOURNE
10. FOO FIGHTERS

Green Day more influential than Iron Maiden? Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha :bigsmile: I mean, I like Green Day, but this is ridiculous. Who did they influence? Also, Linkin Park. They are good, but not that good.

Shitnot, My Anal Romance, Bullet For My Butt and Burp 182 more influential than Ozzy Osbourne? Who did they influence? Millions of shitty generic mallcore bands :mad:

Also, Foo Fighters are on the list, but Nirvana isn't? Unbelievable <_< Nothing against FF though, but Nirvana is more influential.

OK, if they said "METALLICA Is The Most Liked Rock Band Of Last 30 Years" it would be fine. But calling some of these influential is a pure blasphemy.
 
I would expect that kind of list from Rolling Stone, but not from Kerrang!

Besides the whole concept is stupid. Concept like most influential band of the '80s would be logical. But this? I mean, Metallica was influential between '83 and '91. Maiden was influential between 1980 and 1990, and 2000 to 2010. Yes, today they're a big influence too, while you can't say the same for recent Metallica material.

If you asked me, what's the most influential rock band of the last 40 years, i'd say Pink Floyd. But they had 10 influential years from that period, and they became influence on every prog rock band of late '70s, while if you'd ask me about most influential of last 50 years, i'd say The Beatles, but they didn't have any direct effect on generations after 1975.

...if you get my point.
 
Zare said:
while you can't say the same for recent Metallica material.
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Although I like Death Magnetic, I agree with this. I think it's normal that Metallica is first because it's the best known metal act of all time, like it or not. Iron Maiden is much better but it's a fact that Metallica is more popular.
 
I agree with you, NP. But I think FF are going to be bigger and more influential than Nirvana at some point. Maybe they already are.
 
Batman said:
But I think FF are going to be bigger and more influential than Nirvana at some point. Maybe they already are.
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I like Foo Fighters more than Nirvana, but I don't think that they influenced a lot of bands, like Nirvana did.
 
Night Prowler said:
Lars also paid tribute to IRON MAIDEN, which came in at No. 3 on the list. He said: "IRON MAIDEN have been the blueprint for everything that we have ever wanted to do."
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That was fair to say, because in reality he knows it's weird that Maiden (or Priest) did not receive this award.
Night Prowler said:
but it's a fact that Metallica is more popular.
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Dunno. In the USA definitely and in Britain probably as well (this poll might have shown that). But in the rest of the world? I guess Maiden would be more popular than Metallica.
 
Of course Metallica won. They're far more popular here in the US. Now, if this magazine was English, they'd never... wait, what? :blink:
 
Can we keep sight of what's really screwed up here... Green Day at number two? A bunch of whining, pampered, spoiled brats singing about weed and idiots? Second most influential? In a metal mag? They're not even hardcore enough to be punk... much less metal.

Boy, that cheeses me off.  :mad:
 
Night Prowler said:
I like Foo Fighters more than Nirvana, but I don't think that they influenced a lot of bands, like Nirvana did.
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Well there aren't bands to be influenced yet. I don't pay attention to the indie scene but I imagine very soon we will see some bands influenced by the foos.
 
Chartwell said:
Can we keep sight of what's really screwed up here... Green Day at number two? A bunch of whining, pampered, spoiled brats singing about weed and idiots? Second most influential? In a metal mag? They're not even hardcore enough to be punk... much less metal.

Boy, that cheeses me off.  :mad:
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Well, I now know which magazine to use when I run out of toilet paper.  :bigsmile:
 
Black Thunder said:
Well, I now know which magazine to use when I run out of toilet paper.  :bigsmile:
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Why in the name of everything that is holy would you want to torture your ass like that?
 
Just what i wouldve expected, actually with kerrang at the helms i wouldnt have expected to see maiden atall.
i assume this is voted primarily by people listening to kerrang music channel/buying mag etc. of which all i see nowerdays are the above acts, its easy to see its voted by a bunch of 15year olds that are fanatic about this trash surrounding maiden.
just to hit home the dire situation, heres some o the less known bands on there:
Green Day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r00ikilDxW4
My Chemical Romance (yuk)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTgnDLWeeaM
Bullet for my Valentine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sTQ0QdkN3Q
Blink 182
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY

anyway, ill calm down. :ninja: im just really tired of these same bands always getting recognition when in the whole what they put out is complete rubbish. And all the people i hang out with worship them on an equal level to our worship for maiden and i just dont understand it!  :mad:

maiden and the foo deserve to be on the list but possibly not in those places, the rest are complete tripe. like has been said before, nirvana, priest not a load of bands that have been around for 5years and degrading metal getting an award implying 30years of furthering metal.
 
Personally, I feel that Green Day has simply ripped off what was happening in England in the late 70's/early 80's. Bands like Buzzcocks, Stiff Little Fingers* and The Damned, for example, were such an influence to Green Day.




* Granted, they are Ulster-men, but they moved to London after their debut album to be part of that scene.
 
Eddies Wingman said:
My Chemical Romance are on the list, Judas Priest are not. Jesus wept.
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I didn't notice that. Now I do. That is very sad.
 
Albie said:
Personally, I feel that Green Day has simply ripped off what was happening in England in the late 70's/early 80's. Bands like Buzzcocks, Stiff Little Fingers* and The Damned, for example, were such an influence to Green Day.




* Granted, they are Ulster-men, but they moved to London after their debut album to be part of that scene.
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