Nihilist, I'd rather be mainstream than some deluded underground elitist knob any day of the week. To me, achieving mainstream success while still making credible and fulfilling music is the ultimate goal of every band, whether they admit to it or not. If your favourite band Macabre were offered a million dollar record deal, they'd fucken take it, and they'd be right in doing so.
The subject matter of their lyrics means that will never happen, that's the path they chose. I'm sure they'd take a million dollars to do what they do, but that simply won't happen, so your analogy doesn't make any sense.
They make a decent living regardless I am sure. Despite all their fans being "deluded underground elitist knobs".
Besides all of that, I like some "mainstream" bands, I just thought it was hilarious that that dude didn't consider Chaos Divine and Dyscord to be among the mainstream.
Matt is completely right. That was a ill founded comment. Macabre is one of my favourite bands of all time, and having followed them for over 15 years, I have noticed the pride they take in releasing their works on the OWN independent record label,
Decomposed Records. This allows them complete artistic freedom. I honestly don't believe that, in the incredulous event they were offered a big-time deal, that they would accept the offer.
As far as "heavy music" sounds are concerned, I would think that Chaos Divine and Dyscord sit
very comfortably in the more 'mainstream' sounding section of the genre. Some one name me a gigging metal band from Perth that sounds MORE mainstream?? Maybe something like Voyager?
(NOTE: I'm not intending the use of "mainstream" to be derogatory. You could replace that word with "accessible". Mainstream sound often leads to some form of success. Personally I find it boring and predictable, though)
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