Metal Reviews

There's a local station here in Indy that plays alternative, hard rock, and VERY occasionally, metal. Sometimes when I'm driving, I'll flip it on if there is a new song I want to hear that I think they might play (ex. the new Alice in Chains songs). The funny thing to me is that they continue to play the same shit year after year. I don't claim to know all of what's popular in the alternative rock world, but I turned on the station yesterday hoping to hear that AiC song, and this is what I got instead:

Puddle of Mudd
Breaking Benjamin
Three Days Grace
Shinedown
Crossfade

Not sure if any of those bands have new stuff out (don't care really), but these were the exact same songs they were playing 4-5 years ago when I first listened to this station. This can't be normal. Do any of you have local stations that partake in this ridiculousness?

yeah
i have no metal statons in my area so if I have to i'll turn on the radio and all they play is:
shinedown
nickelback
some shittier band that sounds like nickelback
david bowie
Seether ( who i dont mind in small doses)
and shit like that (i don't know alt rock band names )

occaisonally you get:
pearl jam
soundgarden
nirvana
sabbath
ozzy
pink floyd
the who
or zeppelin
so to answer your question I get the same BS

The only radio worth a damn these days is the so-called "classic rock" stations.

I think there is a general format radio staions follow, because it's the same drag here, too.
I heard not long ago some band do a cover of War Pigs, and they really really should be given a good old fashioned boot party for the way they butchered it. Anybody know the name of the band that did this?

A station here have a program named "Pyro", which is pretty cool. Lots of metal there.

yeah classic rock stations that play all the alt. rock you hate
seriously it pisses me off. they play so much bad shit on those stations
but maybe it was snopp dog or whatever his name is that covered it he did a great job on metallica's sad but true

that's becuase your in scandinavia the land of metal. I'm one of the unlucky people in NA the land of rap and pop

The only radio I listen to is Classic FM and Radio 4, BBC 4 tha win. Although Mexican Radio is good too.

*dramatic pause*

Heh heh, haven't heard that, thankfully. We should also invite Shinedown to that same party for that dreadful cover of Simple Man they did.

Agreed about classic rock stations. That's the only station in my city that's consistently worth listening to. Regular radio just sucks now, for the most part, in the US.

EDIT: In checking Wiki's page on War Pigs, I'm guessing Nonpoint is the band you heard V, they of the shitty In the Air Tonight cover played during the movie remake of Miami Vice a couple years ago.

Sorry, but Scandinavia has become the land of fucking indie lately. And by the way, that Pyro-show, even though they play a lot of cool shit, the show is dominated by shit like Lamb of God, Slipknot and fucking Trivium.

On a good da however:

Opeth
Iron Maiden
Satyricon
Maybe some Dimmu
Older Metallica
Diamond Head
Lots of new wave thrash bands

that's among the stuff I've heard there. But I don't really listen to radio anyway.

That still sounds pretty good. I actually really like lamb of god and don't mind some trivium but I'd kill for a station that plays the stuff yours does

Yep .. we've got CJAY 92 which sounds exactly like your station. Perhaps they all just subscribe to the same playlist service or something ..

Here in shithole West Texas we have 99.9 KBAT, the home of REAL ROCK! It plays nothing but Shinedown, Nickelsuck, Theory of a Deadnickelback, Seether, shitty Nirvana songs from 15 years ago, shity RHCP songs from 20 years ago, Been Caught Stealin from over 20 years ago, Chickenfoot(dumb name for a crappy supergroup), and for some odd reason, every shitty Sammy Hagar song to ever get radio play. The only highlights are the occasional Pink Floyd or Roth era Van Halen song. The biggest crime is it's a Rock station in Texas, who won't play fucking Pantera or Stevie Ray Vaughan. That's just blasphemous.

Did I mention Sammy Hagar fucking sucks? Because he does, a lot.

Heh heh. For a while, I thought that I was living in some shitty radio paradox. What the hell are these places thinking? Is Puddle of Mudd circa 2002 still popular or something?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w85PV9ZUeGk

Yeah, that's them.
I'm at a loss for words, really.

Wow, I could only make it halfway through the first verse. Blech. At least they're consistent, two for two on butchered covers.

THIS JUST IN

ROCK RADIO SUCKS

The only thing I'll ever listen to the radio for is for this one station that plays a lot of Jazz and for the Classical stuff they'll play on NPR sometimes.

checked out the link for war pigs
they should be shot for ruining that song

I dunno, we have a few solid classic rock stations here, I think there's only one that plays newer stuff with the classics, too.

satellite radio ftw

Boneyard, Classic Vinyl, Liquid Metal, Howard 100, Howard 101, Raw Dog Comedy, Blue Collar Comedy, etc..

you'll never need regular radio again

So no-one got my Celtic Frost joke. You all fail.