traptunderice wrotedead1 wroteIt's wierd cause its more popular now then it was when it was new.
As if you're local demographic sums up the general consensus. It was obviously not popular or underground insofar as it was a new underground form of music. The larger it has grown and more diverse it has become the more fans it has garnered.
Back in the 1990's, local demographics were all you had. There was no real internet to speak of.
You heard music from your mates and not by downloading.
You occassionally read articles in metal mags when they arrived on time.
Internet was erratic and most bands didn't have websites and even the ones that did had no real content.
That's why the scenes were more geographic - Norwegian Black, Gothenberg Melodeath, Stockholm Death, English Grind, Florida DM, and earlier on Bay Area Thrash, German Thrash and NWOBHM.
Basically the music you were into was what was locally available. If all your mates were into grind then most likely you were into too.
Today internet makes everything available to everyone.
Looking at the local metal scene, it used to mainly Death/Grind. Later on as more stuff became available via the net, we had the emergence of melodeath, thrash, Sabbath worship etc.
