And with about 5 weeks of sales since the last list, the Darkness
has went from about 36,000 sold to about 121,000.

http://www.metal-sludge.com

A couple of Cradle of Filth CD's are also listed, and sold about
108,000 and 71,000.
Iron Maiden's Dance of Death is at 111,000.
Iced Earth has a couple listed at about 40,000 and 54,000 sold, and
In Flames has one listed here, but only at 11,000 sold.
There's some other old tosh listed, but this might be the stuff that
would most interest anyone here.

Tom

psychosis

NOoooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Oh God I am going to be forced to listen to that crap when I walk into a
store!!

I feel your pain. And I mean it. I've heard about three of the
songs, and I just can't take the guys voice. It literally makes me
cringe.
I am not really doing this to put people to pain, but only to point
out that maybe the end of nu-metal is finally here.
Let's face it, I don't think too many Korn, Limp Bizkit and Godsmack
fans will buy the Darkness. I think they are probably selling to young
music buyers, just now getting to like something more hard rock than
top 40.
I think it's probably younger brothers of guys who liked Limp
Bizkit. They don't like older brothers music because it's not theirs.
Shit goes in cycles.
Black Sabbath ushered in the classic metal era, along with Led
Zeppelin, Deep Purple, and BOC to name a few.
Then about 1980, Iron Maiden and Judas Priest ushered in their style
of classic metal, with plenty of followers.
Then maybe 1986 or so, Metallica-Slayer and the thrash bunch ushered
in their style. Sure they started a bit before then, but really began
to hit it big around 1986.
Death metal started sometime around this time, but they never really
made it big.
About 1990-91, Nirvana ushered in their alt-deconstructed sound, and
brought forth the dark ages in music.
About 1996-97 sometime, Limp Bizkit, Korn and other nu-metal bands
came around.
It's 2004, it's high time something come along to usher in a new
style. It's only too bad it looks like it might be limey assed stuff
like the Darkness. By the time-line, this stuff is actually a bit late
in coming about. Usually it seems like about every 5 years or so, some
big cycle change in style happens.
I was sort of hoping it might end up being something extreme like
the death-classic metal cross of many bands I like, but they aren't
selling enough to make a sea change.

Tom

cailinsdad

I think the music appeals to buyers aged 30 and over who are fans of
T-Rex, Bowie, Queen, The Who, and Iggy and the Stooges.

On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 14:47:59 GMT, cailinsdad <cailinsdad@yahoo.com>


It's had it's time, and what with so many of the bands becoming
clowns. Well, some of them sort of dressed up like clowns anyway.
But Marilyn Manson, he was a joke to start with, I guess people are
beginning to see him for what he is.
Limp Bizkit, and Korn are both struggling to sell 1/5th of what they
used to sell and so on.


It might, but I think to sell what they have sold, they have to be
selling to people who buy new music. I don't want to type cast large
sections of people, but those over 30 hardly ever buy any new music,
they'll buy stuff by bands they liked way back when.

Tom