Memories of Kerrang/Scuzz/MTV2 etc

I liked Trivium when they first came out with Pull Harder...and then Sliptknot with Before I Forget. Also there was this metal band with a kind of fantasy apocalyptic video and this dude with a beard singing "victory", the time signatures were a little unusual. There were lots of good songs at that time, QOTSA, The Mars Volta, even Foo Fighters with Times Like These. I also fondly remember Phantom FM, the metal show with Ray McGowan, discovered Trial by Fire by Testament on his show. There was a guitar teaching channel on Sky too. Actually Freeview was a great way to get your music out there including for yours truly. In 2009 you had Metal Tuune on Propeller and it was awesome because you had fun songs from underdogs like this





this





and this



You basically had a mix of bands like someone you knew down the road and obscure Swedish metal bands, it's the last time I remember of alternative music being aired on TV.

@briany Vex Red?

Limp Bizkit are amazing live, they still tour fairly regularly. Not sure how that's a fall from grace? People love to make fun of them, but they don't seem to do too badly out of it.

Agree with all that, Limp Bizkit are unfairly maligned in my opinion, mostly due to Dursts personality, lyrical content, claims of cultural appropriation and the audience the band attracted.

Just listening to a podcast about the current trend of my-metal sounds finding it's way into modern pop music and the original music was sneered at yet the current wave is lauded which makes no sense to me.